by Claire Hannapel | Apr 30, 2018 | Event, National, News, QVS Atlanta, QVS Boston, QVS Minneapolis, QVS Philadelphia, QVS Portland
For QVS to be successful, we need the support of local Friends. In April 2018, we gathered some of our most dedicated local supporters at Pendle Hill, the historic Quaker retreat center just outside Philadelphia. It was the first gathering of its kind; a chance for...
by Liz Nicholson | Jan 31, 2018 | QVS Boston
A NOTE ON SIMPLE LIVING Kateri Boucher, 2017-18 Boston Fellow, working with Neighbor to Neighbor “The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.” – Hans Hoffman Recently a few housemates and I decided to...
by Liz Nicholson | Jan 18, 2018 | News, QVS Minneapolis
Do you have spare furniture, kitchen utensils, linens, bikes, beds, etc. that you are not using? Do your friends? We are seeking furniture and household items to be donated to the new QVS House in Minneapolis. We have an empty house to furnish in preparation for the...
by Liz Nicholson | Jun 19, 2017 | Alumni, News
We are excited to be sending several 2016-17 Fellows and staff to both FUM Stoking the Fire, July 9-12 in Witchita, KS, as well as FGC The Gathering, July 2-8 in Niagara Falls, NY this summer. Who to look out for: Atlanta Fellows Elise Riley, John Madden, and Claire...
by Liz Nicholson | Jun 19, 2017 | Alumni, News, Resources
Consensus Decision Making in Eusocial Organisms June 1, 2017 By Barbara Dale Excerpt “…Quakerism has been an important structure for me to learn in and from. I still live with housemates from QVS, and I feel clued into something larger than myself through...
