NATIONAL ETHICAL SERVICE to Host Luncheon
Saturday, July 26 @ 1 PM

The National Ethical Service of Ethical Culture has been dedicated to connecting our movement to the principles of the United Nations since 1947. NES has its roots in the Women’s Conference of Ethical Culture, and building an activated core in our ethical movement is crucial. 

Luncheon to Align Passions

This season NES brings three important elements to the Assembly. We are creating and activating an engagement tool around the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals; and preparing to take action to address the human rights of the world’s children. Our luncheon will also honor our veteran leader of the NES Executive Committee, Kay Dundorf. 

Sustainability Goals: 

“We are going to bring the goals to life by combining with our ten humanist values to create our Coding Your Ethical Heart game,” says NES President, Audrey Kindred. “This is an educational experience to personalize, embody and activate that which drives meaning and deed.  An experience for young and old, local and national participants.”

Children’s Rights: 

How we face the needs of children in our country and in our world in these changing times – with climate crisis, widening economic disparity, persisting racial inequity, and massive gender strife – is a very important question. NES will be inviting and tooling up societies to activate around International Children’s Day (November 20) to amplify and uphold the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, even though it has not been ratified by the United States government since its inception almost 50 years ago.

ALL Ethical Culture members are members of the National Ethical Service, though they may not know it. Beyond Ethical members, NES also addresses an esteemed cluster of organizational allies and partners working for peace and collaborating through the United Nations and in many other ways.  Among them is a broad interfaith community with whom NES represents Ethical Culture as a faith in humanity itself, a non-theistic religion as it were.

This is an invitation to our community members whose passions align with our commitment to a culture of peace to reach out and connect through NationalEthicalService@gmail.com.

RECOGNIZING KAY DUNDORF

A key member of the National Ethical Service is Riverdale Yonkers Society for Ethical Culture Kay Dundorf. She served as Treasurer from 2020-present and 2008-2013. She was the NES President from 2013 to 2020. During her tenure as Treasurer, the Rose L Walker Fund grew to over $110,000. At the UN, Kay has served on the Executive Council of the CO-NGO Committee Spirituality, Values and Global Concerns and continues to be a member of that Committee. She also served on the civil society coalition of United for a Culture of Peace and The Spiritual Caucus. “Along with dozens of other NES members, I thank Kay for her years of service, leadership and commitment to the NES,” says Emily Newman, executive committee member from 2013 to 2016.