Committees

New York Quarterly Meeting (NYQM) is an organization of the Quaker meetings in New York City. In addition to its staff, the Quarter is sustained by volunteers who serve on committees, hold clerking roles, and serve as Trustees. 

The Handbook contains general guidance about committee service and a description of each of the committees listed below. If you're interested in nurturing the NYC Quaker community by serving on a committee, please contact the Nominating Committee. 

New York Quarterly Meeting Committees

• Audit and Budget
• Africa Great Lakes Education
  • A separate 501(c3) non-profit corporation, the main mission of the committee is to support the students in the primary and secondary schools of the Kisangura region in Tanzania, Africa
• Cemetery — email cemetery@nycquakers.org
  • Purpose: To assist members and families in burial plans and with the process of grieving, and to care for the cemetery property and records
• Educational Fund — email NYQMeducationfund@nycquakers.org
  • The New York Quarterly Meeting (NYQM) Education Fund gives money to members and children of NYQM to help attend Brooklyn Friends School and Friends Seminary and to assist with the costs of applying to the Mary McDowell Friends School
• Handbook — email handbook@nycquakers.org
  • Purpose: To maintain an accurate and up to date version of the Handbook, and to submit the latest version to the Quarterly Meeting
• Ministry and Counsel
  • Purpose: To nurture the spiritual life of New York Quarterly Meeting, our beloved community. To facilitate visitation and communication among Friends and committees; plan, coordinate and support educational, spiritual and witness programs for NYQM; facilitate the opportunity for individuals who have specific concerns with the Quarterly Meeting, its members, committees, or employees to come to clearness.
• Nominating — email nominating-committee@nycquakers.org
  • Purpose: To propose names of members for service to the Quarterly Meeting, with the aim to distribute Quarterly Meeting committee members equitably among the various monthly meetings.
• Relief — email relief@nycquakers.org
  • Purpose: To give tender care and attention and financial aid as appropriate to those members of the Quarter in financial need.
• Trustees — email trustees@nycquakers.org
  • The trustees are the directors of the NYQM corporation which shall be responsible for holding title to and administration and management of properties, both real and personal, owned by the Quarterly Meeting, and for the management of bequests and deeds of trust received by the Quarterly Meeting in a fiduciary capacity.
• Witness Fund — email nyqm-witness-fund@nycquakers.org
  • Purpose: to encourage committees of the Quarter and individual members of the Religious Society of Friends with significant connections to NYQM and who worship with us regularly to propose an outreach or witness project requiring funds beyond budget or available means

New York Quarterly Meeting Working Groups

• Communications Working Group — email sarah@nycquakers.org
  • Advises the Communications Director on amplifying Quaker witness and values across a variety of media platforms and on forming a strategic direction for NYC Quaker communications. The working group serves as a bridge between monthly meetings and quarter-wide communications, enabling and encouraging the sharing of experiences and support among its members.
• Community Wellness — email communitywellness@nycquakers.org
  • With representatives from each monthly meeting, this working group guides NYC Quakers's partnership with University Settlement, the goal of which is to provide free health and wellness support to all Quaker meetings and Friends in NYC—both directly to individuals and to strengthen our meetings' care for one another by working with pastoral care committees.
• Concern for Quaker Living — email Jing Jia
  • The Concern for Quaker Living Working group (CQL), under the care of NYQM's Ministry and Counsel committee, recognizes and appreciates that our entire community is enhanced by and dependent on our oldest Friends. We seek to enable older Friends who want to remain in NYC to do so, rather than having to locate elsewhere. Furthermore, we seek to enable our meetings to broaden Quaker life to encompass a caring community that extends spiritually to explore all of our life experiences.