by Liz Nicholson | Feb 8, 2017 | National, News, Resources
Position: Quaker Voluntary Service Fellow Community, Social Justice, Transformational Spirituality Quaker Voluntary Service is a year-long service program in which young adults, between the ages 21-30, live communally, work full time at social service and social...
by Liz Nicholson | Feb 7, 2017 | Event, Recruitment
Two opportunities to catch up with QVS Portland Fellow, Lili Baldwin ’16, and QVS Boston City Coordinator, Hilary Burgin ’10, at their Alma Mater, Oberlin College on Feb 7th! Tuesday Feb. 7th- 4:30pm Wilder 211 Tuesday Feb. 7th- 7:30pm Feve If you...
by Liz Nicholson | Jan 24, 2017 | News, QVS Portland
A Healthy Climate for All Damon Motz-Storey Take a deep breath. Are you sitting down right now? Standing? Lying on a couch or in bed? Take another breath. You are connected to the earth in some way. Feel your body touching something solid, tethered to the ground, the...
by Liz Nicholson | Jan 11, 2017 | Quaker Service Testimonies
Nancy Wales Foster was born in 1914 and grew up in southwestern Ohio, on the farm where her Quaker ancestors had settled in 1810. After graduating from Swarthmore College, she returned to Ohio and began teaching in 1934. She spent several summers as an AFSC staff...
by Liz Nicholson | Jan 10, 2017 | Event, News, QVS Philadelphia
This Saturday, January 14th, students from Ursinus College who are participants in the Bonner Leaders program will visit with QVS Fellow Krista Snyder, and staff members Oskar Castro and Ross Hennesy, to hear about the history of Quakers in Germantown in the...