2025-26 Site Placements

Southern Jamaica Plain Health Center (SJPHC) is a community health center licensed by Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Every year, more than 10,000 patients in Jamaica Plain and surrounding communities make 45,000 visits to SJPHC. Bilingual staff provide these patients with comprehensive, high quality primary care. SJPHC provides health care in a friendly, personalized way.

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.

EMO sponsors two fellows – one at the Northeast Emergency Food Program and the other as a Public Policy Associate.

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

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.

As a Federally Qualified Health Center, Outside In provides 28,000 medical visits a year to the most vulnerable members of our community. Our two clinics, located in downtown Portland and the Rosewood Neighborhood in East Multnomah County provide comprehensive and accessible medical and mental health services. For those who are unable to come to us, we have two medical outreach vans to provide care right where they are, before medical problems escalate and they end up in the emergency room.

In our School-Based Health Center at Milwaukie High School in Clackamas County, we reach out to at-risk youth and families in the surrounding communities providing accessible health care, health literacy education, and health resources that establish positive relationships between students and health care.

Poverty, homelessness, and inadequate access to health care prevent people from achieving full health and well-being. With our client-centered approach, Outside In specializes in providing care that overcomes barriers and helps our patients reach their health goals. We work in partnership with all our patients to find a path towards greater health and wellness.

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.

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.

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.