by Claire Hannapel | Jun 25, 2020 | Financials, National, News, Quaker Service Testimonies
QVS is launching the Clarence and Lilly Pickett Endowment for Quaker Service thanks to the generous seed funding from the Clarence and Lilly Pickett Fund. The Pickett Fund dissolved in 2018 and discerned it would redistribute their remaining endowment funds to other...
by Claire Hannapel | Jun 18, 2020 | Financials, National, News, Video
QVS staff and board recently led a Supporters’ Briefing, which offered Friends an inside look into QVS’s recent programmatic and financial shifts due to COVID-19. The event included special updates from an incredibly successful fundraising campaign,...
by Claire Hannapel | Apr 15, 2020 | Financials, National, Quaker Service Testimonies, Video
Click the video below to learn from three Friends and QVS Alumni sharing about why they feel led to support the transformative work of QVS. Below are a few excerpts from the video: Why do you support QVS? “[QVS] affords young people an opportunity at a very...
by Claire Hannapel | Feb 21, 2020 | Financials, National, News
Check out our QVS February National Update from Claire Hannapel, QVS Development Coordinator and 2016-17 Atlanta Alum. Dear Friend, Has winter caught up to you, like it has for me? The gray skies and endless rain causing the desire to only stay in your pajamas? I...
by Claire Hannapel | Jul 25, 2019 | Alumni, Quaker Service Testimonies
In my year as a QVS Fellow, I worked at Casa del Trabajador, an immigrant-led worker center which advocates for injured, unpaid, or otherwise vulnerable workers. My year with QVS and Casa del Trabajador gave me many, many things — but primarily, it gave me tools...
