Links to Quaker Organizations (not QIC members)
This page was created for internal use by QIC staff. Most of these links and many more can be found at www.quaker.org.
Alternatives to Violence Project - USA (AVP)
AVP/USA is an association of community based groups and prison based groups offering experiential workshops in personal growth and creative conflict management.
www.avpusa.org
Associated Committee of Friends on Indian Affairs (ACFIA)
Australia Yearly Meeeting
www.quakers.org.au/index.shtml#beliefs
Ben Lomond Quaker Center
Ben Lomond Quaker Center is a self-service conference and retreat center with simple, comfortable accommodations, modestly priced.
www.quakercenter.org/index.html
Bolivian Quaker Education Fund
Supports schooling for indigenous Bolivians.
http://bqef.org/
Britain Yearly Meeting
www.quaker.org.uk
Library
www.quaker.org.uk/library
Canadian Friends Service Committee (CFSC)
Founded in 1931, Canadian Friends Service Committee (CFSC) acts on the peace and social justice concerns of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Canada.
cfsc.quaker.ca
Canadian Yearly Meeting
www.quaker.ca
Center on Conscience and War
Interfaith organization for conscientious objectors (U.S.)
www.centeronconscience.org/index.shtml
Evangelical Friends International (EFI)
Evangelical Friends International exists to help local Friends churches around the world meet the spiritual needs of their communities. Our desire is to stretch across racial, cultural, national, even denominational barriers to reach people with the life-changing love of Christ.
www.evangelical-friends.org
Fair Hill Burial Ground
www.fairhillburial.org/
Fellowship of Friends of African Descent
The Fellowship of Friends of African Descent was born out of the worldwide Gathering of Friends of African Descent planned by Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Racial Concerns Committee in 1990.
www.fellowshipoffriendsofafricandescent.org
Fellowship of Quakers in the Arts (FQA)
fqa.quaker.org
The Friendly Woman (periodical)
http://user.icx.net/~richmond/FW/fw_home.html
Friends Bulletin
fb.quaker.org
Friends Conference on Religion and Psychology (FCRP)
FCRP is one of the oldest conferences in the U.S. dedicated to individual spiritual exploration with a focus on in-depth psychology, specifically Jungian psychology. Our conference takes place in beautiful Central Pennsylvania on the campus of Lebanon Valley College.
fcrp.quaker.org
Friends Energy Project
fep.quaker.org
Friends for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Concerns
Friends for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Concerns is a Quaker faith community within the Religious Society of Friends. FLGBTQC deeply honors, affirms, and upholds that of God in all people. We seek to know that of God within ourselves and others. We seek to express God's truth in the Quaker and in the lesbian/gay/bisexual/transsexual/transgender communities, as it is made known to us.
quaker.org/flgbtqc
Friends Hospice Project
www.friendshospice.org/index_files/Page358.htm
Friends House Moscow
Friends House Moscow is an initiative of Friends worldwide which seeks to encourage spiritual growth and the development of a civil society based on mutual trust and community cooperation.
fhm.quaker.org/
Friends Neighborhood Guild
"We believe that it is our duty as members of the human family to do what lies within our power for the assistance of those less fortunate than ourselves, and for society in general, and to share with others the benefit of every advantage which we enjoy, and there would seem to be a special call to all who believe in the Fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man, to do our 'Father's work among our brethren!”
http://www.friendsguild.net
Friends Peace Teams (FPT)
Friends Peace Teams is a Spirit-led organization working around the world to develop long-term relationships with communities in conflict to create programs for peacebuilding, healing and reconciliation. FPT’s programs build on extensive Quaker experience combining practical and spiritual aspects of conflict resolution.
friendspeaceteams.org/
Friends World Committee for Consultation - World Office
The international Friends organization which works with all the Yearly Meetings of Quakers worldwide. We exist to facilitate loving understanding of diversities among Friends while we discover, with God's help, our common spiritual ground and to facilitate full expression of Friends testimonies in the world. Our work is primarily among the many Yearly Meetings of Friends worldwide.
fwccworld.org/
Ireland Yearly Meeting
www.quakers-in-ireland.org/
Vanessa Julye
www.quaker.org/vanessajulye
John Woolman Memorial Association (Woolman House)
The purpose of the John Woolman Memorial Association, headquartered at the Woolman House in Mount Holly, New Jersey, is to keep alive the spirit and memory of John Woolman and to further the appreciation of this eighteenth century Quaker saint-journalist-abolitionist.
woolmancentral.com/index.html
woolmancentral.com/JWMA.html
Mercer Street Friends
Mercer Street Friends is a Quaker-affiliated, nonsectarian human care organization providing compassionate and practical solutions to the problems of poverty and health. We serve more than 20,000 people a year from seven locations and 15 program sites, including the historic original location, a former Friends meeting house in the Mill Hill section of Trenton. Our programs serve infants, children, youth, parents and adults, and the disabled and elderly. www.mercerstreetfriends.org/index.php
North Carolina Friends Historical Society
The purpose of the North Carolina Friends Historical Society is to collect, preserve, and publish valuable information relative to the history of the Society of Friends in North Carolina and adjacent territories.
www.ncfhs.org/
Nontheist Friends
Nontheistfriends.org presents the work of Friends (Quakers) who are more concerned with the natural than the supernatural. Some of us understand “God” as a symbol of human values and some of us avoid the concept while accepting it as significant to others.
nontheistfriends.org/
Powell House, the New York Yearly Meeting Retreat Center
Powell House is the conference and retreat center of
New York Yearly Meeting - Religious Society of Friends.
Our mission is to foster the spiritual growth of Friends (Quakers) and others and to strengthen the application of Friends' testimonies in the world.
www.powellhouse.org/
ProNica
ProNica is a not-for-profit corporation which provides practical opportunities for religious service to promote Quaker testimonies such as peace, equality and community.
pronica.org/
Pacific Yearly Meeting Committee in Unity with Nature
In our website you will find a selection of statements on the concept of "Unity with Nature" and our efforts to re-order our lives toward a more harmonious and Spirit-filled relationship to Creation.
members.aol.com/quakernature/
stamp ministry of Mattapoisett Quakers
home.comcast.net/~mattapoisettquakers/stamps.html
home.comcast.net/~mattapoisettquakers/index.html
Quaker Bolivia Link
Quaker Earthcare Witness
Quaker Earthcare Witness is a spiritually-centered movement of Quakers and like-minded people seeking ways to integrate concern for the environment with Friends' long-standing testimonies for simplicity, peace, and equality.
www.quakerearthcare.org/
Quaker House of Fayetteville NC
Working for Peace and GI Rights
quakerhouse.org/index.php
The Quaker Institute for the Future
"We seek to develop an institute that can carry on Friends' experiments with Truth in the context of research work that will provide the foundations for the applications of our testimonies undertaken by AFSC, FCNL and other Quaker bodies and meetings." Summer institutes.
http://www.quakerinstitute.org/
Quaker Peace Centre of Capetown, South Africa
www.quaker.org/capetown/
The Quaker Tapestry
www.quaker-tapestry.co.uk/
Quaker Theological Discussion Group
The Quaker Theological Discussion Group meets once a year, in conjunction with the joint annual meetings of the American Academy of Religion and the Society of Biblical Literature.
theo-discuss.quaker.org/
Quaker United Nations Office
Since the founding of the United Nations in 1945, Quakers have shared that organisation's aims and supported its efforts to abolish war and promote peaceful resolution of conflicts, human rights, economic justice and good governance.
www.quno.org/
Quaker Universalist Fellowship - U.S.
The mission of The Quaker Universalist Friends is to foster the understanding that within everyone is a directly accessible spiritual light that can lead people to equality, simplicity, justice, compassion and peace.
www.universalistfriends.org/ .
For mailing address: www.universalistfriends.org/activities.html#write.
Quaker Universalist Group - Britain
The Quaker Universalist Group is an informal group within the Quaker movement based on our understanding that spiritual awareness is accessible to everyone of any religion or none, and that no one faith can claim to have a final revelation or monopoly of truth.
www.qug.org.uk/
Quakerdale
Founded in 1851, Quakerdale is a private, not-for-profit social service agency dedicated to strengthening children and families in Iowa. Quakerdale offers comprehensive, preventative and therapeutic treatment services to between 1,000 to 1,500 children and families annually.
www.quakerdale.org/
Quaker Ecumenical Seminars in Theology (QUEST)
quest.quaker.org/
Quakers Uniting In Publications (QUIP)
Begun informally in 1983 by a small group of Quaker publishers and booksellers, Quakers Uniting in Publications is now an international network of over 50 Friends organizations and individuals concerned with the ministry of the written word.
www.quaker.org/quip/
Ramallah Friends School
http://www.palfriends.org/
Right Sharing of World Resources
Right Sharing of World Resources is a program of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) supporting grassroots projects for economic development and offering educational materials for the study of the lives of the poor, the lives of the rich, and the spiritual meaning of both.
www.rswr.org/
Swarthmoor Hall
www.swarthmoorhall.co.uk/
The Tract Association of Friends
The Tract Association of Friends is an association of member of the Society of Friends with a special sense of unity in the concern for distribution of sound Quaker literature. Our roots run deep into the past.
www.tractassociation.org/index.jsp
Washington Quaker Workcamps, Inc.
Washington Quaker Workcamps offers opportunities for community service which seek to address social concerns in concrete ways. In this way we bear witness to the Quaker belief that we should lovingly answer that of God in each person.
wqw.quaker.org/
What Canst Thou Say?
An independent publication by and for Quakers with an interest in mystical experience and contemplative practice, published in August, November, February, and May.
www.geocities.com/what_canst_thou_say/
Woodbrooke Quaker Study Center
Woodbrooke is the Quaker Study Centre in the UK. It is based in the former family home of the local chocolate maker, George Cadbury, himself a Quaker, and has, since 1903, provided education for those of any faith or none from around the world.
www.woodbrooke.org.uk/
Woolman Hill, a Quaker Retreat Center
Woolman Hill, a Quaker retreat and conference center situated on 110 ridge-top acres of meadows and woodlands in western Massachusetts, is dedicated to fostering, developing and strengthening the testimonies of the Religious Society of Friends.
www.gis.net/~woolmanh/
John Woolman College
John Wilmerding project
http://woolman.ning.com/
Other Links for Visitors to Philadelphia
Chamounix Mansion's suggested sites - tourism
Chamounix Mansion Youth Hostel
Burlington Meeting House Conference Center
Library Catalogs
Henry J. Cadbury Library (Philadelphia Yearly Meeting)
Tripod catalog (libraries of Haverford, Bryn Mawr and Swarthmore Colleges, including Quaker collections).
Service
Greater Philadelphia Cares - service opportunities
Volunteer Way (United Way volunteer referrals)
Other (reserve)