Peace & Social Concerns Notes / November 11, 2020

Community, News, Social Concerns

The Peace and Social Concerns Committee is working to help New Garden Friends Meeting incorporate more immediate social and economic justice actions into our everyday lives. Thus, every weekly newsletter will include one Anti-Racist Action suggestion and one website whereby members can find minority-owned business to support, if they so choose. The Meeting is not endorsing or advertising these businesses; we just feel it’s important to spread dollars more equitably to all community members and entrepreneurs.…

Alternatives to Violence Project Participants needed / December 2020

Community, News, Social Concerns

My name is Milena Tyler von Wrangel and I am a PhD student in clinical psychology at the California School for Professional Psychology in Los Angeles, CA. I’m currently organizing research into the impact of an Alternatives to Violence Project basic workshop on measures of social connectedness and emotional intelligence. three online community workshops 12-16 participants for each workshop. 8 mini-sessions of 2-2.5 hours each. over the course of one month The workshops are entirely…

Have Styrofoam to Recycle? / November 12, 2020

Community, Environment, News, Social Concerns

The local foam recycling drop-off site is almost ready to receive foam. A densifier will be installed and volunteers will be trained next Friday. If you have Styrofoam cups, clamshells, trays or other foam packaging material you want to get rid of, you can bring it to Bill McNeil at the Meetinghouse at 11:00-11:20 am Thursday, November 12. Until the building is open, you cannot leave foam at the Meetinghouse. But our foam recycling team…

Community Housing Solutions Event / November 17, 2020

Community, News, Social Concerns

Join Community Housing Solutions for a warm event on Tuesday, November 17 from 12:00-12:30 p.m. Now more than ever, we all realize the importance of having a warm, dry, and safe home to shelter in. On this day, CHS will hold a 30-minute virtual event to celebrate the work of CHS and the lives that have been touched through home repairs and home ownership opportunities during this unprecedented year. The impact of CHS is real…

North Carolina Fellowship of Friends / AntiRacism Discussion / November 19, 2020

Community, News, Social Concerns

Please join others from our yearly meeting, North Carolina Fellowship of Friends, on Thursday, November 19 from 7- 8:30 p.m. via Zoom to discuss our understandings of racism and antiracism work. We will hear a presentation on the 2019 book by historian Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist. You do not need to read the book to participate. All are welcome. Our discussions will be vibrant! Please email Frank Massey at ([email protected]) to…

Adult Forum / Understanding the Case of Marcus Deon Smith / November 8, 2020

Community, First Day, News, Social Concerns

November 8, 2020 / 9:45 a.m. / Adult Forum livestream: Facebook Live: www.facebook.com/NewGardenFriendsMeeting/ Understanding the Case of Marcus Deon Smith / Presenters; Marcia Foutch, Hester Petty, Lewis Pitts/Better. This forum will have four main parts: What happened to Marcus Smith September 8, 2018 and the community response. The legal case that the Smith family initiated and where it is currently. The creation of the Greensboro Justice Coalition, the demands sent to City Council and how…

Covid-19 Update / November 6, 2020

Community, Fellowship, News

NGFM’s Covid-19 Medical Advisory Group Recommendation; We had been hopeful that conditions for in-person meetings would improve before the holidays, but across the country the infection rates for Covid-19 are on the rise along with hospitalizations, positivity and death rates including those in Guilford County. We continue to recommend that New Garden Friends Meeting not sponsor in-person activities until local and state statistics provide reassurance that risk of viral transmission throughout our community is low. We recommend…

Donations to New Garden’s Library / November 2020

Community, News, Youth

New Garden Library has received a number of books from generous donors over the past year. Here are a few that might be of interest to New Gardeners in hopes that we will soon be back together and can take advantage of these selections! Moral Injury, by Alice Lynd with the assistance of Staughton Lynd The Newcomers: Finding Refuge, Friendship and Hope in America, by Helen Thorpe Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth…

Peace & Social Concerns Notes / October 27, 2020

Community, News, Social Concerns

The Peace and Social Concerns Committee is working to help New Garden Friends Meeting incorporate more immediate social and economic justice actions into our everyday lives. Thus, every weekly newsletter will include one Anti-Racist Action suggestion and one website whereby members can find minority-owned business to support, if they so choose. The Meeting is not endorsing or advertising these businesses; we just feel it’s important to spread dollars more equitably to all community members and entrepreneurs.…