QEW currently has two outside "projects."

Finca la Bella

One is its ongoing relationship with a sustainable agriculture project in the mountains of Costa Rica known as Finca la Bella (the Beautiful Farm") that 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 AK/SL Project (aka Finca la Bella)—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.

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