QEW Mini-Grants

Overview

In 2008 QEW awarded $200 matching grants to five Quaker Meetings or affiliated groups to encourage them to undertake a variety of spirit-led ecological projects. They included 1) Support for the Quaker Bike Trek, in which a group of Friends witnessed for Earth-friendlier travel by biking from Philadelphia to Johnstown, Pa., the site of the 2008 Friends General Conference Gathering, 2) Support for a Quaker-run nature education project in a school district, 3) Replacement of old toilets in a Meeting house with new water-conserving models, 4) Construction of a covered bicycle shed at a Meeting house, and 5) Support for a wildlands restoration project in New Mexico that involves local Quakers. Click here to see a PowerPoint slide show of highlights of these projects.

MINI-GRANTS. The Outreach Committee has care of a new QEW Mini-grant program, which in 2009 awarded ten $250 matching grants to Quaker Meetings and Churches for ecological programs. There is funding for at least 10 Mini-grants in 2010.

Click here to download the Mini-grant application form in pdf format>. Applications must be received by May 1, 2010.

Click here to see the Mini-grant application form in web format.

Click here for a summary of the grants awarded in 2008 and 2009.

Click here to see a short PowerPoint presentation on the 2009 mini-grant projects.