The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) is a Religious Society of Friends (Quaker)-founded organization working for peace and social justice in...
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Quakers (redirect from Society of Friends)
good, Quakers represented by the British Friends Service Council and the American Friends Service Committee were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Religious...
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Revolutionary Union, The Resistance, American Friends Service Committee, War Resisters League and the Committee for Peace and Freedom. ADC was formed...
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Quaker Peace and Social Witness (redirect from Friends Service Council (1927–1978))
(QPSW), previously known as the Friends Service Council, and then as Quaker Peace and Service, is one of the central committees of Britain Yearly Meeting of...
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1947, the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) and the Quaker Peace and Social Witness (QPSW) (previously known as the Friends Service Council) jointly...
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which was accepted by the American Friends Service Committee and the then London Yearly Meeting's Friends Service Committee, now called Britain Yearly...
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to Quakers worldwide and accepted by the Friends Service Council and the American Friends Service Committee. The original trainees in the 1939 training...
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History of the Quakers (redirect from History of the Religious Society of Friends)
mostly unprogrammed, and aligned itself closely with the American Friends Service Committee. By the last part of the century, it had taken a strong position...
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Rufus Jones (writer) (category American Quakers)
establishment of the Haverford Emergency Unit (a precursor to the American Friends Service Committee). One of the most influential Quakers of the 20th century...
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Canadian Friends Service Committee (CFSC) is a charity that acts on the peace and social justice concerns of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)...
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City with the American Friends Service Committee and Britain Yearly Meeting. FWCC was set up at the 1937 Second World Conference of Friends in Swarthmore...
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organizations: American Friends Service Committee Anglican Pacifist Fellowship Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Buddhist Peace Fellowship Central Committee for...
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Douglas C. Bennett (category American chief operating officers)
advisory committee for the Quaker United Nations Office in New York and served on the Corporation for the American Friends Service Committee. Bennett...
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Christin Hinojosa (category American film actresses)
became an anti-war activist. In 2004, as a member of the American Friends Service Committee, she was the first coordinator of the Eyes Wide Open installation...
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Letter from Birmingham Jail (category American political philosophy literature)
first published as "Letter from Birmingham City Jail" by the American Friends Service Committee in May 1963 and subsequently in the June 1963 issue of Liberation...
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Unity (Ethiopia) Responding to Conflict (United Kingdom) American Friends Service Committee, an arm of the Quakers Quaker Peace & Social Witness (QPSW)...
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Crystal Bird Fauset (category African-American state legislators in Pennsylvania)
the Young Women's Christian Association, and then with the American Friends Service Committee. In 1935, she became assistant to the director of Philadelphia's...
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controversy about JROTC and militarism in schools. The American Friends Service Committee, the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors (CCCO), Veterans for...
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The Friends Relief Service (FRS) was a voluntary humanitarian relief organisation formally established by a committee of Britain Yearly Meeting in November...
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American Friends Service Committee. 15 February 2006. Archived from the original on 29 April 2008. Retrieved 2008-04-20. The American Friends Service...
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other Friends, they are a member of the interdenominational Friends World Committee for Consultation. After the switching of around 7,000 Friends from...
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Clayton Van Lydegraf (category American activists)
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), American Friends Service Committee, Anti-Fascist Front, Seattle Committee to End the War in Vietnam, and trade unions...
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sweat equity was first employed in the United States by the American Friends Service Committee in the Penn Craft self-help housing project beginning in 1937...
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disparities within the education system. In 2001, the staff the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) along with The People's Institute of Survival and Beyond...
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Oughton went to Guatemala with the American Friends Service Committee program to teach the young and older Native Americans. After returning to the U.S, she...
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Brothers of the Christian Schools, used as post-nominal initials American Friends Service Committee Air Force Specialty Code Air Force Systems Command Air Force...
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T. Canby Jones (category Members of the Civilian Public Service)
did postwar reconstruction work under the auspices of the American Friends Service Committee. He served as a Professor of Religion & Philosophy at Wilmington...
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Nontheist Quakers (redirect from Nontheist Friends)
Russell Nicholson Baker Charlie Brooker American Friends Service Committee Christian atheism Friends Committee on National Legislation Nontheistic religion...
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Quaker Search for an Alternative to Violence, published by the American Friends Service Committee in 1955. Speak Truth To Power is also the title of a global...
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affiliated with Friends United Meeting. Note that the Friends World Committee for Consultation counts, but does not name, many more Kenyan Friends schools than...
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