Virtual Quaker Fair
Welcome to Virtual Quaker Fair!
Please take your time perusing the 17 presentations here, many of which have websites, videos, slideshows, and more for you to explore at your own pace.
On Friday, July 24th from 8:00 to 9:00 PM , our presenters will be available in their own Zoom sessions -- standing by their virtual “tables” if you will -- ready to discuss their presentations. To join by internet, there is a link on each listing. To join by phone, dial (669) 900-6833 and use the Meeting ID/Password listed with each presentation.
| Barclay Press |
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Eric Muhr (he/him) |
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| Ben Lomond Quaker Center |
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| Way Will Open: Re-Imagining the Future of Quaker Center |
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Susan Wilson (she/her/hers) & Bob Fisher |
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| Center for Development in Central America |
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Becca Mohally-Renk (she/her) |
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The Center for Development in Central America (CDCA) works in Nicaragua with communities that live under the burden of poverty to enable them to improve the lives of their people and hopefully shed that burden. The CDCA’s goal is to work in partnership with communities and cooperatives to facilitate empowerment. This enables them to find their own solutions to the problems they identify and connects them with resources to solve their problems. The CDCA works in the areas of health care, education, sustainable agriculture and sustainable economic development.
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| Friendly Water for the World |
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David Albert (he/him) |
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Friendly Water for the World is a northwest Quaker-founded knowledge-sharing and training organization, assisting communities around the global toward ensuring their own safe water and towards community self-sufficiency. |
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| Friends Committee on National Legislation |
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FCNL Representatives & Bobby Trice, FCNL Quaker Engagement Associate |
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The Friends Committee on National Legislation lobbies Congress and the administration to advance peace, justice, opportunity, and environmental stewardship. Founded in 1943 by members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), FCNL fields an expert team of lobbyists on Capitol Hill and works with a grassroots network of tens of thousands of people across the country to advance policies and priorities established by our governing General Committee. FCNL is a nonpartisan organization that seeks to live our values of integrity, simplicity, and peace as we build relationships across political divides to move policies forward. |
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| Friends World Committee for Consultation |
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Elinor Jordan (she/her), Lucy Fullerton, & Laura Arcidiacono |
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Answering God's call to universal love, Friends World Committee for Consultation brings Friends of varying traditions and cultural experiences together in worship, communications and consultation, to express our common heritage and our Quaker message to the world. |
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| Greater Portland Sustainability Education Network |
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| Quakers and the International Climate Effort - An update for precarious times |
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Frank Granshaw (he/him) |
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Climate issues know no boundaries, meaning that to deal with them requires an international response. Faith groups such as Quakers play a critical role in forging a response based on justice, equity, and stewardship. This virtual poster showcases some of the ways Quakers engage in climate action and how you can take part in this action. |
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Multnomah Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends
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| Kenya Health Education Ministry |
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Nora Percival (she/her) |
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Nora Percival’s ministry in Kenya to improve the lives of Kenyan Quakers and others, under the care of University Friends Meeting. |
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| Outreach and Visitation Committee |
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Elee Hadley, Necia Quast, Joe Snyder, and Margaret Coahran |
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| Quaker Earthcare Witness |
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| Climate, Covid 19 and Environmental Justice |
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Shelley Tanenbaum (she/her/hers) |
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| Quaker Social Concerns Network |
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Jonathan Betz-Zall (he/him/his) |
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| Quaker Voice on Washington Public Policy |
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Noah Martin & Susan Cambell |
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Quaker Voice continues in the centuries-old Quaker tradition of leading the struggle for human and civil rights in Washington state.. Quaker Voice focuses on issues such as criminal justice, that are not sufficiently addressed by other organizations, along with economic justice and environmental stewardship. |
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| Quaker Voluntary Service |
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Jane Snyder (she/her/hers) |
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| Right Sharing of World Resources |
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Jackie Stillwell, Maggie Ellis, and Jonathan Brown (he/him/his) |
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Right Sharing of World Resources (RSWR) is an independent Quaker not-for-profit organization sharing the abundance of God’s love by working for equity through partnerships around the world. RSWR gives grants to groups of marginalized women in Kenya, Sierra Leone, and India to fund individual micro-enterprise projects. Right Sharing’s work is grounded in a sense of stewardship for the world’s material, human, and spiritual resources. |
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| Spiritual Deepening Group |
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Daniel Clark (he/they) & Eric Straatsma |
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For this year’s NPYM Quaker Fair, we invite you to talk with representatives of the Spiritual Deepening Group that was formed at the 2018 NPYM Annual Session. Since then, the group has been having weekly email check-ins, along with in-person sessions at the Annual Session and more recently monthly Zoom sessions. |
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| Way of the Spirit |
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| Way of the Spirit: Now with Online Retreats from Quaker Spirituality |
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Christine Hall (she/her/hers) |
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Way of the Spirit Invitation Video: https://youtu.be/5kZZBTUwTdU Way of the Spirit website: https://goodnewsassoc.org/spirit/ |
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| Western Friend |
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Mary Klein (she/her/hers) |
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