Share Your Proposal for Funds Before April 5, 2021

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The Peace and Social Concerns Committee (PSCC) is seeking proposals for funds. Each spring and fall, New Garden provides small grants to organizations for projects that address the meeting’s priorities of peace, simplicity, integrity, community, equality, and stewardship of Earth. PSCC looks at all proposed organizations and projects for their antiracist value. If you know of an organization or project that could benefit from a small grant ($200 – $500), please have a representative of…

News From Religious Education / Forum on March 28, 2021

Community, First Day, News, Social Concerns

Peace & Social Concerns is leading a book study of How to Be An Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi. To quote from Mr. Kendi’s website: “In his memoir, Kendi weaves together an electrifying combination of ethics, history, law, and science–including the story of his own awakening to antiracism–bringing it all together in a cogent, accessible form. He begins by helping us rethink our most deeply held, if implicit, beliefs and our most intimate personal relationships…

Share Your Proposal for Funds by April 5, 2021

Community, News, Social Concerns

The Peace and Social Concerns Committee (PSCC) is seeking proposals for funds. Each spring and fall, New Garden provides small grants to organizations for projects that address the meeting’s priorities of peace, simplicity, integrity, community, equality, and stewardship of Earth. PSCC looks at all proposed organizations and projects for their antiracist value. If you know of an organization or project that could benefit from a small grant ($200 – $500), please have a representative of…

Quaker Relations Survey Update / March 16, 2021

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We have opened the Quaker Relations Survey back up for our community so that we can continue to gather feedback from those that did not participate in February. Please use this link to access the survey so that we can better understand the impact our wider Quaker community has on NGFM. The link is: https://tinyurl.com/42heh4v4 The survey will be open for several weeks.

Peace & Social Concerns Notes / March 16, 2021

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History Lunch Break: Ella Baker- Six Decades in the Making As the Sit-in Movement that was launched in Greensboro expanded, Ella Baker of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference invited student leaders to gather at Shaw University on an April weekend in 1960. There, she would help those students organize the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Dr. Lea E. Williams, author of We Who Believe in Freedom: The Life and Times of Ella Baker, joins us…

Covid-19 Vaccine Information / March 16, 2021

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Encouragingly, vaccination rates are increasing and hospitalization rates are slightly lower in NC this week. Friends are encouraged to continue their vigilant use of masks, physical distancing and frequent hand sanitation in public especially as we are in the Spring Break season and as we continue to hear about more infectious viral variants. Friends are encouraged to carefully read the new CDC guidelines issued last week; go to: https://tinyurl.com/yyvb9n4t These primarily open up guidelines for…

Recycle Your Foam / March 13, 2021

Community, Environment, News

Bring your foam to Foam Frolic, Saturday, March 13th, 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. Greensboro’s unique foam recycling site is open and receiving foam cups, trays and packaging at 1310 West Gate City Boulevard. Saturday’s Foam Frolic will be a COVID-safe, drive-through event to show off our convenient location and promote recycling this material that otherwise would go in the trash and take up space in a landfill. The foam recycling site is run by…

Peace & Social Concerns Notes / March 9, 2021

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Anti-Racist Actions You Can Take Now: Participate in the webinar, “New in Town: The Refugee Experience, Immigration in Guilford County Part 2,” from the Center for New North Carolinians, on Tuesday, March 16, 6 – 7 p.m. The United States is known for its diversity through immigration. But what does it take to be a part of a community in this country in 2021? Greensboro’s Center for New North Carolinians will help us all answer…