by Claire Hannapel | Jun 25, 2020 | Campaign, National, News/Update, 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 | Jun 22, 2020 | Event, National, News/Update, Quaker Service Testimonies, QVS Minneapolis, QVS Portland
At the 2019 Summer Gathering for Friends General Conference, QVS Fellows and Alumni connected with Mark Helpsmeet. Mark is the founder and producer of Northern Spirit Radio. Mark was interested in interviewing QVS for his weekly radio program, Spirit In Action. In...
by Liz Nicholson | Jun 19, 2020 | National, News/Update, Racial Justice/White Privilege
“That the US doesn’t have an Emancipation Day to mark our abolishing an institution antithetical to our founding ideals of freedom & liberty speaks to the ongoing cover-up and our inability, still, to acknowledge what we did and who we are… Juneteenth should...
by Claire Hannapel | Jun 18, 2020 | Campaign, National, News/Update, 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 Liz Nicholson | Jun 16, 2020 | National, QVS Philadelphia, Racial Justice/White Privilege
“When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.” ― Audre Lorde What is our work? In 2008 many of us were witness to, if not active participants, in an electoral...
by Liz Nicholson | May 30, 2020 | National, News/Update, Racial Justice/White Privilege, Resources, Uncategorized
As we continue to see police and citizen violence on Black and brown bodies, most recently with the deaths of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd, we ask what is our work- what is my work? This violence and white supremacy is not new, it is a tale as old...
