by Liz Nicholson | Mar 1, 2017 | News/Update, QVS Atlanta, QVS Boston, QVS Philadelphia, QVS Portland, Recruitment
Who are we partnering with this year? From sites we’ve worked with for years like the Nationalities Service Center–working on immigrant and refugee rights issues, to brand new sites like Urban Gleaners– which addresses hunger by redistributing...
by Liz Nicholson | Jan 9, 2017 | Quaker Service Testimonies, QVS Atlanta
This gentle Quaker couple, Nan and Britt Pendergrast, helped create and sustain the News/Views publications which began in April, 1980. A group from Atlanta Friends Meeting, led by Dwight Ferguson and Nan Pendergrast, selected articles on peace, social justice and...
by Liz Nicholson | Jan 9, 2017 | Quaker Service Testimonies, QVS Atlanta
Courtney and Elizabeth Siceloff met in Sweden on a Quaker sponsored tour of Scandinavian cooperatives in 1949 and then continued to live their lives together in service. Their first service began in 1950 at the newly formed Penn Center on St. Helena Island in South...
by Liz Nicholson | Dec 9, 2016 | Quaker Service Testimonies, QVS Atlanta
Elizabeth Hendricks “I was a long-time (50 years) member of Atlanta Friends Meeting, so I am especially pleased that the first Quaker Voluntary Service House has been established in Atlanta. QVS is continuing a long tradition of Quaker service. To support that...
by Liz Nicholson | Mar 31, 2016 | National, News/Update, QVS Atlanta
Dear Friend, Here in Atlanta we are enjoying a burst of new life and light as springtime renewal is all around us. It often feels that hopefulness in the face of so much hatred and violence in the world is futile or naive. Yet, especially in this Easter season, I...
by Liz Nicholson | Jan 14, 2016 | Jobs/Openings, News/Update, QVS Atlanta, QVS Boston, QVS Philadelphia, QVS Portland
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...
