by QVS | Jun 24, 2024 | National, Quaker Service Testimonies, QVS Boston, QVS Portland
Photo: The QVS Portland house 2023-2024 Tas, Samantha, Salem and Imani being silly at national orientation last fall. Samantha Paladini, in her second year as a QVS Fellow, reflects on her experience. Life as a Quaker Voluntary Service fellow created the...
by QVS | Jan 18, 2024 | National, News, QVS Minneapolis
Photo: A potluck hosted by the Local Support Committee in the Twin Cities last year. Local enthusiasm for QVS kept the door open for a possible return to the Twin Cities Last Spring, the QVS Board of Directors made the difficult decision to pause the program in...
by Claire Hannapel | Jul 1, 2021 | Quaker Service Testimonies, QVS Boston
Each summer — as the program year winds down — we invite Fellows to reflect on their experience and write a testimonial to share with Friends. Margaret Thurston, a young adult Fellow who served in Boston during the 2020-2021 program year, shares about the ways QVS...
by Claire Hannapel | Oct 9, 2020 | Alumni, Quaker Service Testimonies, QVS Philadelphia
The following testimonial was written by Lucas Richie, a 2018-2019 Philadelphia QVS Fellow. During his QVS year, Lucas served at Bread & Roses Community Fund. Bread & Roses was one of QVS’ first site placement partners when we expanded to Philadelphia in...
by Liz Nicholson | Feb 14, 2017 | Event, Recruitment
ATL QVS Fellow, John Madden ’16, Philly Fellow Maile Munro ’16, & ATL Coordinator, Liz Nicholson ’12 will share about QVS as a way to create the social change you seek post-grad. Social justice, community, spirituality. QVS is a year-long...
