QEW Projects

Finca la Bella ("the Beautiful Farm")

QEW has an ongoing relationship with a sustainable agriculture project in the mountains of Costa Rica known as Finca la Bella ("the Beautiful Farm"), which QEW and others started in the early 1990s. It is under the care of QEW's Ann Kriebel/San Luis Committee.

Click here to read about the Finca La Bella Project —1) Overview, 2) background, current successes and challenges, 3) parcelero family profiles, and 4) visitation guidelines.

Friends Testimony on Economics

Co-sponsored by the Earthcare Working Group of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, QEW's Friends Testimony on Economics (FTE) seeks to engage Friends with:

• Learning more about current economic concepts, policies, and institutions as they relate to our historic testimonies in an ecological context, and
• Supporting advocacy by FCNL and other Friends' organizations for a comprehensive reformulation of U.S. economic policy.

Click here for more information on FTE.

QEW Mini-grants

Starting in 2008, QEW has been awarding small matching grants to Quaker Meetings or affiliated groups to encourage them to undertake spirit-led projects.

Click here to learn more about the QEW Mini-grants.

The Men4Men Grants—a vasectomy fund

QEW has a special fund, Men4Men, under the the Sustainability: Faith & Action working group, that offers eligible Quaker men with up to $350 toward the cost of a vasectomy.

Click here for more information about the Men4M project.

These projects are distinguished from QEW's interest groups primarily by the fact that they is able to do outside fund-raising.