Eastie Farm is a grassroots climate and food justice organization. Our work is deeply community-based, focused on context-based climate solutions for a better today and tomorrow. We operate 7 urban farm sites, including a geothermal greenhouse. We farm, we operate a CSA (fresh produce box), run K-12 climate literacy programs, and lead a youth green job program. The Eastie Farm Fellow supports one or more of these programs! The specific role would be dependent on the Fellows interests and skills, and how they align with Eastie Farm’s needs as an organization. Past fellows have straddled multiple programs, for example, working part-time in our greenhouse taking care of plants and working part time as a climate educator in our school gardens. Other fellows have honed their graphic design and tech skills for our website and organizational communication, while also helping to plan community events. Our community is housed in a minority-majority, mostly LatinX, Environmental Justice community.

ACHIEVEability is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization working to permanently break the generational cycle of poverty for low income, single parent, and homeless families through higher education, affordable housing, supportive services, community and economic development, and accountability.

Founded in 1981, ACHIEVEability strives to permanently break the generational cycle of poverty for low-income, single-parent and homeless families. In our neighborhood the poverty rate is 37%. Focusing on the Haddington and Cobbs Creek neighborhoods of West Philadelphia, ACHIEVEability provides a continuum of anti-poverty services for vulnerable, low-income individuals and families through our three core programs: ACHIEVEability Connects, Family Self-Sufficiency Program and WorkSmart West Philly. ACHIEVEability is a midsized nonprofit with 17 staff members located in two offices. Our vision is to eradicate poverty in West Philadelphia. We use our core values to guide us and we are: fired up, transformative, accountable, community-driven, gritty and compassionate. Each year, we serve over 2,500 individuals and help them to achieve economic stability.

ACHIEVEability Fellow-
ACHIEVEability (ACHa), located in the Haddington/Cobbs Creek neighborhood of West Philadelphia, is looking for an enthusiastic, community focused individual interested in helping us to achieve our mission of breaking the cycle of poverty and promoting economic mobility among our residents. Our community faces high poverty (37%) and various barriers to achieving economic mobility. ACHa is committed to addressing the systematic challenges faced by our community by providing direct services and advocating for policy change. We are looking for an energetic and creative problem solver eager to help ACHa support individuals and families of all ages and abilities in reaching their full potential.

The ACHa Fellow will support our core programs: ACHa Connects, Family Self-Sufficiency Program and WorkSmart West Philly. Reporting to the Executive Director, the fellow will have an opportunity to provide direct services, manage projects, implement volunteer projects and help build infrastructure for the organization. The fellow will also learn about nonprofit fundraising, leadership, stakeholder engagement, policy research and advocacy. Qualified candidates should be comfortable working in an urban and nonprofit environment that requires flexibility, good communication skills and the ability to work individually and as part of a team. General computer skills, including word processing, excel, internet and email are a plus.

The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) is a Quaker organization that promotes lasting peace with justice, as a practical expression of faith in action. Drawing on continuing spiritual insights and working with people of many backgrounds, we nurture the seeds of change and respect for human life that transform social relations and systems.

South Region Quaker Engagement Fellow

Under the care of the Quaker Engagement staff in AFSC’s Central Office in Philadelphia and South Region staff in Atlanta, this QVS Fellow will be responsible for developing a model of engagement for Monthly and Yearly meetings through a set of activities which may include, but is not limited to:
· Recruiting AFSC liaisons with the goal of establishing at least one liaison in every monthly meeting in the South Region.
· Keeping contact information for Friends current and updated in AFSC’s systems.
· Sending regular communications to liaisons with AFSC activities, opportunities for Friends to take Action, and program updates for meetings located near an AFSC program.
· Sending physical materials like posters, handouts, stickers, and other promotional materials for AFSC programs and campaigns.
· Developing close relationships with Friends and help them find opportunities to become more engaged with AFSC.
· Through closer relationships with liaisons and the monitoring of monthly and yearly meeting newsletters, socials, and emails, lift up developing areas of concern within various Friends communities and share with the Quaker Engagement staff and the wider organization where appropriate.
· Engaging local meetings in signing on to key AFSC campaigns with an ask for local meetings like the Apartheid Free Communities campaign, the Think Twice Pledge, endorsements of North Star, and participation in Stop Cop City.
· Creating speaking and other engagement opportunities at local meetings for AFSC staff and other experts
· Soliciting an annual donation from Monthly Meetings and Yearly Meetings.

Our Values:

• We believe in intergenerational people power. We know that the source of our power is the grassroots, and the only way we can win a livable future for all is if we build a social movement strong enough to overpower the most profitable and influential companies the world has ever seen. And we know that we can best tackle this multi-generational challenge if we engage multi-generational leadership. When we combine the passion, perspective, and energy of our youth leaders with the wisdom, connections, and experience of our community leaders, we have a winning formula for change.
• We believe in partnerships. We know that we are not in this fight alone and cannot win this fight alone. We seek to build powerful coalitions of climate groups and other progressive organizations that collectively work toward common goals related to climate, jobs, and justice. This ultimately will build a broader network of relationships and support for our climate and clean energy priorities, and advance the goals of justice and equity that are essential to lasting democratic change.
• We believe in equity and justice. We know that climate change is an issue that intersects with ecological, social, racial, economic, indigenous, and immigrant justice. As we seek to address climate change and the impacts of fossil fuels, we seek to advance equity and justice in our campaigns and in our internal operations and show up in solidarity for these other movements’ priorities as our capacity allows.
• We believe in science. We know that there are people who have dedicated their careers to studying the impacts of climate pollution, and we think that policies that address pollution reduction and advance clean energy should be driven by our best understanding of the latest climate science. We also believe it is our responsibility to speak to, and advocate for, policies and goals based on this science, whether or not such actions are seen as politically realistic in the short-term. We are also committed to transparency when, in the interest of setting a precedent or achieving an interim victory, we support bills or policies that fall short of these standards.

Position Description:

The Communications Fellow will be responsible for managing public communications for the Better Future Project across our three programs--350 Mass--a volunteer driven climate action network, CREW--Communities Responding to Extreme Weather--which supports a network of climate resilience hubs (mostly libraries and houses of worship), and Make Polluters Pay--a campaign aimed at holding the largest fossil fuel companies financially accountable for the damages caused by climate change. The Communications fellow will work with our program staff to execute communications to our bases of volunteers through email newsletters, and the broader public through social media. Through this role the fellow will have an opportunity to engage in various aspects of the campaign work--from community outreach events, to direct actions. The fellow will also contribute to our grassroots fundraising efforts but supporting giving drives throughout the year.

Body Empowerment Project is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization established in 2021 to help empower youth to find body acceptance and self-worth. The organization works to prevent eating disorders in adolescents, specifically in populations that lack access to treatment and preventive care. Our primary goal is to reduce healthcare disparities and promote equitable access to a novel community health intervention. Our prevention program involves the delivery of our evidence-based curriculum which has been recently demonstrated to have clinically significant reductions in eating disorder risk in our participants. 

Body Empowerment Project was founded and incorporated in 2021 by two University of Pennsylvania alumni who had a passion for healthcare equity and lived experience with eating disorders and body image struggles. In 2022, they hired their first full-time employee, Clara Pritchett, to assume the role of Operations Director. In the last two years, BEP has expanded from 2 high schools to 16 middle and high schools across the School District of Philadelphia as well as 4 schools in the San Francisco Bay Area. BEP has served roughly 550 students since inception. Importantly, our program has been tailored to specifically serve our student population. Lessons are rooted in social justice and fat liberation practices and resources. In addition to our middle and high school programming, we facilitate professional development workshops for teachers, nurses, and other professionals. We also oversee programming on 7 college campuses all across the country.

The Program Manager will work alongside our Executive Director and other members of the leadership team with current operations and organizational reach and capacity. The main duties for this role fall into two categories: programming and fundraising. Programming duties will include volunteer management, forging and maintaining relationships with school contacts, gathering and providing feedback to participants and volunteers, and visiting school sites and providing feedback to volunteer facilitators. Fundraising duties will include: grant searching, grant writing, planning fundraising events, running virtual mass market campaigns, and networking with existing and prospective donors. Additionally, the program manager will partner with our board of directors and leadership team to gain nonprofit leadership skills. They will play a key role in strategic planning, budgeting, and organization-wide operations.

Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon (EMO) meets the immediate needs of communities in the greater Portland area through our six direct service programs, while seeking long-term solutions through state-wide public policy and advocacy work. Our direct service programs support refugees and immigrants, food insecure people, low-income people living with HIV, unaccompanied youth experiencing homelessness, and survivors of domestic violence.

Fellow Position Description:

EMO will sponsor two fellows in 2024-2025.  One at the Northeast Emergency Food Program and the other at will be a Public Policy Associate.

Hillsboro Friends Church: We desire to live out our Quaker heritage with love for Jesus and affirmation for all our fellow human beings.

Fellow Position Description:

The QVS Fellow helps to coordinate a community meal and associated support services:

Houseless community members as well as a small and growing group in transitional housing and a significant number of trans and gender non-binary houseless people who are at significant risk of assault and sexual violence. For some, our community meal is a temporary refuge, and we want to do a better job of supporting them throughout the week. 

On Sundays, between twenty and thirty folks, mostly houseless but some in transitional housing, show up at 10 a.m., enjoy a light continental breakfast followed by a hearty lunch cooked on-site and hang out together for conversation until we start handing out brown-bag dinners (sandwiches and other snacks). We close the dining area and lock up the building at 1 p.m. The coordinator plans menus, recruits and collaborates with volunteers, coordinates supplies with our local food bank and a designated shopper who picks up whatever supplies are needed and that can't be provided by the food bank, works with a small team to begin cooking at 8:30 a.m. Greet community members at 10 a.m. Resource community members with clothing and other supplies from our "store," closes the building at 1 p.m., and finishes clean-up at 2 p.m. The coordinator will have a designated office space and time to dream about how to strategically expand program services in small but sustainable ways.

JOIN works to support the efforts of individuals and families experiencing houselessness to transition into stable housing. Founded in 1992, JOIN is a regional leader and innovator of “Housing First'' social work; our relationship-based, trauma-informed, and collaborative service model celebrates and uplifts each person’s self-determination, dignity, joy, and resilience.

Today, JOIN’s seven programs and ~50 staff provide culturally-responsive services in support of Portland’s most important housing initiatives across the Adult and Family Housing Systems–Rapid Rehousing, Permanent Supportive Housing, Primary Leasing, and provision of very-low-barrier essential services at JOIN’s Dayspace. We serve individuals and families living in places not meant for habitation, doubled up, unstably housed, and in transitional housing to support their move into stable housing and help them retain that housing with support from Housing Retention workers. Our Dayspace, JOIN’s drop-in service center, serves approximately 100 individuals per day and provides access to regular meals, a mailing address, showers and hygiene products, system resource navigation support, weekly onsite medical services, and other support.

Mission Statement

Children develop most quickly and meaningfully in settings of cooperative play, imaginative learning, creative expression, and regular contact with the natural environment. This is the essence of the LFS experience: a progressive child-centered education surrounded by unsurpassed cultural diversity, gifted educators, and green play spaces.

The Massachusetts Bail Fund (MBF) is a nonprofit, abolitionist organization with a short-term goal of paying bail for people in Massachusetts who are incarcerated and/or being held in pre-trial detention. MBF's long-term goal is to assist in the movement and completion of abolishing jails, prisons, policing, and supervision which reproduces racism, gender oppression and queer antagonism, ableism, xenophobia, ageism, and religious oppression. MBF envisions a world without prisons, policing, and other institutional forces of harm, exploitation, and marginalization. Part of this vision involves centralizing the leadership of, and amplifying the voices of, those who have been directly and most heavily impacted by the carceral system. MBF was founded in 2011 as a small group of activists following the Occupy Boston movement who posted bail for folks in Suffolk County up, which then grew over the next several years to be comprised of approximately 30 consistent volunteers and a board of directors by 2016. MBF gained community-based and financial momentum in the next three years after extensive networking and political education campaigns (i.e., when the organization was posting bail statewide in thirteen counties), and again in 2020 following the murder of George Floyd and the acceleration of the Black Lives Matter movement. MBF is now comprised of four staff (i.e., executive director, two bail organizers, bookkeeper), approximately 25 volunteers in a rotation, and a board of directors (i.e., six individuals). MBF posts bail up to $1,000 for an individual without regard to the nature of their case or prior legal involvement as it is a non-judgmental bail fund.

Fellow Position Description: Mass Bail Fund Fellow

MBF’s operational structure is evolving in a direction of having leadership and decision-making are centralized in people with direct experience with the carceral system. The Fellow will not be working directly with clients (i.e., formerly incarcerated people), but must consider the reality of the disproportionate treatment of those impacted by the judicial and carceral systems, including people of Color as well as genderqueer and gender-nonconforming people, and disabled people. The Fellow will get to meet, work with, and build rapport with staff impacted by this system and with community partners. They will get to contribute to the team’s vision through building avenues to more effective recordkeeping, reporting, and material development for political and community education campaigns. This will require strong writing and verbal skills, experience with Google suite, a passion for advocating for social justice, and adaptability to new responsibilities, all with the support of the MBF team. They will also assist in contributing to the creation of sustainable practices within MBF’s operations. The Fellow will have an opportunity to make a tremendous difference in the efficiency of freeing people from incarceration so that those people may fight their cases and have access to the resources they need in a supportive environment.

Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility was founded in 1981 by a group of local physicians and scientists who advocated against nuclear weapons and for the cleanup of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. We are the local affiliate of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War which was awarded the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize. Guided by the values and expertise of medicine and public health, Oregon PSR seeks a healthy, just and peaceful world for present and future generations by protecting human life from the gravest threats to health and survival.

Specific programs include advocating for a healthy climate and environment, ending nuclear power, and promoting peaceful alternatives to militarism, nuclear weapons, and gun violence. In addition to bringing the health perspective to issues of social responsibility, we intentionally prioritize the voices and needs of communities of color. We work to incorporate racial and immigrant justice into our environmental, anti-nuclear, and peacebuilding work.

Pendle Hill was established in 1930 as a Quaker study center designed to prepare its adult students for service both in the Religious Society of Friends and in the world. Pendle Hill was meant to be different from existing Quaker schools or colleges, which were mainly academic. Its mission was both educational and religious: Pendle Hill was to be a school, rooted in Quaker community life, where students and staff would live according to Quaker principles and practices and where learning would be experiential as well as intellectual.

The founders of Pendle Hill included well-known Quaker spiritual leaders, teachers, and business people such as Rufus Jones of Haverford, Henry Cadbury of Bryn Mawr, William and Hannah Clothier Hull of Swarthmore, George Walton of George School and his brother, J. Barnard Walton, Agnes Tierney of Coulter Street Meeting, Germantown, and D. Robert Yarnall, who was to clerk the Board for 24 years. The first director was Henry Hodgkin, a respected British Quaker who played a large role in naming Pendle Hill after the hill climbed by George Fox, the founder of Quakerism, in 1652, from which he saw “a great people to be gathered.” Henry Hodgkin wrote: “The name of Pendle Hill symbolizes the call to climb to spiritual heights through hard thinking and self-discipline…to see deeper into the meaning of life and farther out into the great world, and to come down, as did Fox from Pendle Hill, with a fresh zest for the service which reaches to ‘that of God’ in all…”

Central to the vision of the Pendle Hill community and the influence that it seeks to exert in the larger world are: peace, truth-speaking and integrity, equality, simplicity, and reaching out to that of God in every one. Further, Pendle Hill seeks to uphold education, sustainability, and social action and justice as key values and practices for and within our work.

At this moment our organization have a reduced staff of 19 people but we serve more that 5,000 people at year in our different programs and through our conference service. We are committed to radical hospitality as a testimony of simplicity and inclusion.

Education Program Assistant

Under supervision of the Director of Education, the QVS Fellow would focus on supporting Pendle Hill’s Friends Foundation for the Aging -funded online programming learning resources, bringing our outreach to older adults to the next level. This year, the QVS Fellow would intentionally reach out to other FFA grantees, building on resonances identified between FFA grantee programming.

The School of the Spirit Ministry (SotS) is dedicated to helping all who wish to be more faithful listeners and responders to the inward work of Christ.

Within the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), the traditional meetings of ministers and elders were sometimes referred to as a “school of the Spirit.” In gathered worship Friends learned to discern the movement of the Inward Teacher and test their discernment with one another. This practiced listening–this unceasing prayer–extended into every aspect of their lives.

Administrator and Outreach Coordinator

Duties:

1. Proactively anticipate roadblocks and opportunities for the Ministry, and offer potential solutions, systems or tools to the board for managing them well. The 5-10 person Board of Directors meets monthly by video and 1-2 times/year in person.
2. Keep the ministry’s financial books in order, to the satisfaction of the treasurer. Specifically this includes ledgering daily transactions, monthly bank-to-checkbook reconciliation, and special analyses and tools as requested by the treasurer or finance committee. Track income/expense and cash flows from programs. Ensure that participants are informed about and invoiced for balances due and that the treasurer has current information about program income and expenses. Our annual budget is currently approximately $150K, and we hold $120K in reserves. Ledgering takes place in Excel and Google Sheets software. On average, the administrator processes 30-50 transactions monthly when 2-3 programs are operational. The Board is discerning a call to new ministry (see #4 below) which might increase this frequency.
3. Maintain the ministry’s donor database. Specifically, the database work includes daily recording of transactions, quarterly summary updates on contributions and analysis of significant patterns and trends for use in soliciting funding from donors and grantors.

South Jamaica Plain Health Center- Health Promotion Center The Health Promotion Center (HPC) is a part of the Southern Jamaica Plain Health Center. Our mission is to provide personal, quality health care with respect and compassion to our diverse community.
The HPC uses the lens of Health Equity and Social Justice and takes an approach that considers social determinants of health/strives to be anti-racist through its programming and campaign work.

The Racial Reconciliation Project: Our vision is to build a movement of radical and structural thinkers. From this movement will emerge a core of racial justice practitioners that will be devoted to collective liberation and undoing the trauma that racism has caused.
Our mission is to guide youth to reach amazing levels of connection with the self, with their peers, and then ultimately with the world. In this, we aim to provide tools to help youth understand intersectionality and how the history of racism and white supremacy has shaped the current policies and practices in the US, manage and lower their stress levels, regulate their emotions, and understand their role in dismantling racism.

More than 12,000 patients in Jamaica Plain and surrounding communities make over 50,000 visits each year to the health center. Over 50% of our patients are Latino and our bilingual staff provide patients with high quality primary care. As part of BWH and Partners HealthCare, patients benefit from receiving care in a familiar, local setting while being part of a large, integrated network of specialty and hospital care that provides any medical services they might need.

With the opening of the SJPHC Health Promotion Center in 2010, the health center was able to move beyond medical care alone. Doctors and mental health providers can prescribe support groups, yoga classes, or many other activities with a specific focus that will address the patient's health needs. And we're thinking about the health of the community, working together to address the health equity, social and racial justice, and structures and policies that affect the health of all of us.

Fellow-
Work with a team of interns and staff to coordinate a variety of health promotion racial justice and equity projects. Fellow will support diabetes management groups, physical activity opportunities, and youth engagement; help evaluate and track progress and assist with grant reporting and other documentation; participate in community meetings and organizing projects related to transit and food justice; support youth programming at the south street youth center and with the Racial Reconciliation and Healing project www.racialrec.org. To learn more about SJPHC’s racial justice approach please view this video: https://vimeo.com/268050238

Fellow will receive training on the history of racism and white supremacy in medicine and beyond, the current impact of racism on health, racial justice framing and communication and how to apply Critical Race Theory to research and other projects. This is multi-racial, multi-identity work and all are encouraged to apply and bring their systems analysis.