Links to Other Quaker Websites

Welcome . . .

. . . to a list of other Quaker or Quaker-related resources on the Web.

Affiliations

• Friends General Conference (FGC)
• Friends United Meeting (FUM) (an international association of Friends meetings and churches)
• Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC)
• FWCC Section of the Americas

Aging

• Friends Services for the Aging

Bookstores

• Friends United Press books
• Quakerbooks of FGC
• Pendle Hill Bookstore

Conference and retreat centers

• Pendle Hill (a Quaker center for study and contemplation)
• Powell House (NYYM retreat and conference center)

Directories of Friends’ organizations, etc.

• Calendar of Worldwide Yearly Meetings provided by FWCC
• Resources: large list at www.quaker.org

Education

• Bolivian Quaker Education Fund
• Brooklyn Friends School
• Connecticut Friends School
• Earthcare for Children (Quaker religious-education curriculum)
• Friends Academy (Locust Valley, N.Y.)
• Friends Association for Higher Education
• Friends Council on Education
• Friends Seminary (New York City)
• Oakwood Friends School (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.)
• Westbury Friends School (Westbury, N.Y.)

Finding Quaker Worship

• Meetings in New York Yearly Meeting
• www.quakerfinder.org: (find meetings throughout the U.S.)
• FWCC Directory of Friends Meetings and Churches (searchable directory; U.S. & Canada)

History resources

• Friends Historical Association
• Friends Historical Library at Swarthmore College

LGBTQ (Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, and queer)

• Friends for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Concerns
• Quaker Lesbian Conference

Organizations operated by or with Quakers (See also Affiliations, Peace)

• Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP)
       New York State AVP
• American Friends Service Committee
• Bolivian Quaker Education Fund
• Fellowship of Friends of African Descent
• Fellowship of Quakers in the Arts
• Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL)
• Friends Meeting House Fund (FMHF) (makes loans to finance purchase and improvement of meetinghouse facilities)
• Quaker Bolivia Link, “an international nonsectarian development organization dedicated to reducing poverty among the indigenous peoples of Bolivia”
• Quaker Earthcare Witness (formerly Friends Committee on Unity with Nature)
• Quaker Information Center (based in Philadelphia)
• Quaker Initiative to End Torture
• Quaker Intentional Village Project (“a venture of Quakers and others who are interested in creating and living in a new kind of community”)
• Quakers in Pastoral Care and Counseling
• Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO)
• Quaker Universalist Fellowship
• Right Sharing of World Resources
• Wider Quaker Fellowship (a ministry of literature)
• William Penn House, a Quaker Center on Capitol Hill
• Youth Service Opportunities Project (YSOP) “is committed to making young people a part of the solution to societal problems by helping them learn what a difference they can make in the lives of others.”

Other Friends meetings in NYYM area

• Clintondale Friends Christian Church
• St. Lawrence Valley Friends Meeting

Peace (see also the Peace section of this site.)

• AFSC Youth and Militarism Program
• Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP)
• Christian Peacemaker Teams
       Friends Peace Teams to Indonesia, “…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”
• Friends Peace Teams
• Witness for Peace
• Y & M Online (AFSC’s monthly newsletter about youth, war, and peace--no longer published, but archived issues are available)

Publications

• EarthLight (magazine of spiritual ecology)
• Friends Journal
• Quaker Life
• Western Friend, “a magazine dedicated to building the Western Quaker community” (official publication of Pacific, North Pacific, and Intermountain Yearly Meetings)

Residences

• Foulkeways at Gwynedd (Quaker continuing-care retirement community)
• Foxdale Village (Quaker continuing-care retirement community)
• Kendal Corporation (communities and services for older people)
• Medford Leas (Quaker-related continuing-care retirement community)
• Pennswood Village (Quaker continuing-care retirement community)

Volunteer opportunities

• AFSC Volunteer Opportunities
• Bolivian Quaker Education Fund
• Youth Service Opportunities Project (YSOP) “is committed to making young people a part of the solution to societal problems by helping them learn what a difference they can make in the lives of others.”

Youth

• AFSC Youth and Militarism Program
• Earthcare for Children (new Quaker religious-education curriculum)
• NYYM Circle of Young Friends
• Y & M Online (AFSC’s monthly newsletter about youth, war, and peace--no longer published, but archived issues are available)
• Youth Ministries of Friends General Conference
• Youth Service Opportunities Project (YSOP) “is committed to making young people a part of the solution to societal problems by helping them learn what a difference they can make in the lives of others.”