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| Greetings, Young Adult Friends & allies,
There are a multitude of jobs at Quaker organizations open right now – check them out! A few of them have application deadlines coming up soon. (And really, there are a lot – one came while I was editing this email.)
Tonight I’ll be at the Pendle Hill lecture “Are We Missing Class?” with a few other YAFs (a great follow-up to our Spring Retreat theme!) The lecture is in a series of programming on the first Monday of every month – always free and open to the public.
And finally, for YAFs who want to get more involved in the community, save the date for the next YAF Working Group Meeting – Thursday July 10th at 7:30PM.
In the Spirit,
Elizabeth Piersol Schmidt
PYM Young Adult Friends Communications Coordinator
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| Upcoming Events & Opportunities |
Are We Missing Class? A Lecture by Betsy Leondar-Wright
 June 2, 7:30PM
Pendle Hill Barn
38 Plush Mill Road, Wallingford, PA
Cost: Free & open to the public
Why have we seen so few cross-class movements in the United States? One reason: we overlook class cultures. Most progressive groups face the same troubles, such as low turnout and internal conflicts. Activists of different classes tend to approach these persistent problems in different ways. Each class culture holds some keys to building stronger organizations – but many activists know little about these class culture differences.
In her new book, Missing Class: Strengthening Social Movement Groups by Seeing Class Cultures, Betsy Leondar-Wright reveals how discovering class cultures can be transformative for social justice groups. Betsy’s lively, multimedia talk gives both a big-picture view of the sorry state of class awareness on the left and a prescription for building a cross-class, multiracial movement.
More info on the Pendle Hill website.
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Continuing Revolution:
A Young Adult Friends Conference on Community
 June 6-11th at Pendle Hill in Wallingford, PA
Cost: $300 (scholarship available)
Pendle Hill’s six--day conference for young adult Friends will include inspirational speakers, workshops and trainings, worship and worship--sharing, fellowship, discernment of gifts and ministry, and service. The program, still in development, will be announced soon. We will be focusing on community in its most expansive definition as a way to examine the need for change, the strength of human action, our own growing edges, the power of a gathered body, and to explore together some more radical understandings of the community testimony.
There’s a few spots left – more info and the application can be found on the Pendle Hill website or contact Emily Higgs at ehiggs@pendlehill.org
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Friends General Conference Gathering
Let Love be the First Motion
June 29 – July 5th
Cal U, south of Pittsburgh, PA
Registration for this year’s Friends General Conference Gathering, a week-long event with over 1,000 Quakers from across the US & Canada, is open!
There’s priority for workshops and scholarships through April 13th (although you can register later), and there’s extra scholarship money for YAFs in the PYM area (and there’s a LOT of aid if you haven’t attended Gathering in a while!)
There’s also a 100+ person young adult community program the Gathering.
More info on the FGC website.
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Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Annual Sessions
“Worship is a Door to Love”
July 23-27, 2014
Muhlenberg College in Allentown, PA
register by June 30 (for housing & financial aid)
At Annual Sessions we get to know ourselves as a whole Quaker community. We worship together, practice spirit-led discernment in Meetings for Business, re-create in age specific and multigenerational programs, and enjoy fellowship in quiet times. There are many opportunities to share witness from our meetings and the wider world.
This year’s keynote speaker is the amazing Peterson Toscano,who will be presenting on Saturday night during Sessions.
Young Adult Friends (YAFs, ages 18-35) participate in all aspects of Annual Sessions, facilitating workshops, participating in business sessions, and providing leadership for youth programs. We have our own dorm area where we
host late-evening program & fellowship, often including discussion, worship sharing, board games, and checking in about the day.
Concerned about cost?
Sessions planners are working to make this year’s sessions as affordable as possible. First time attenders get a free dinner. Workgrants will be available to help cover the cost of attending sessions (see below for one super fun workgrant opportunity.) Please do not stay away for lack of funds!
More info & registration on the PYM Sessions website
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Volunteer with Quaker kids this July!
 Children’s Sessions
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Annual Sessions
July 23-27th at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, PA
Children’s Sessions would like to reach out to Young Adult Friends who might be interesting in teaching with Children’s Sessions this summer! If you work with us, we’ll pay your fees, and you get to hang out with some seriously great kids. Have huge impact on Quaker young people, work with experienced teachers, and have more fun than anyone else at Sessions. Plenty of workgrant opportunities for all levels of involvement.
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Jobs & Internships
As Christie Duncan-Tessmer moves into the General Secretary role, PYM will be hiring a new Associate Secretary for Program & Religious Life to work closely with her and the program staff. The new person will help strengthen the religious life and witness of PYM in framing, articulating and championing a vision of Quaker faith, practice and witness.
This full-time position with benefits requires active membership, a Bachelor’s degree, and five or more years of relevant experience. The search committee will begin reviewing résumés in mid-June. Please send letter of interest, resume and salary requirement by June 23, 2014, to: Anthony Giunta, HR Coordinator agiunta@pym.org
The Office Manager will work primarily from the front desk. He/she will be the hub for tenant relations and for other office responsibilities. The position includes bookkeeping, and we can only consider candidates who have bookkeeping experience. Of course, the key qualifications are that it is a warm and welcoming person who can do five things at one time!
The job description is on the Friends Center website.
The Online Communications Intern is a one year paid position. This intern will work closely with the Communications and Web Manager, and other FGC staff to support ongoing communications work across the organization. It will include substantial work in Drupal with FGC’s primary website, www.fgcquaker.org, in Salesforce which is our primary database and with a variety of related web tools. This position will play a role training and supporting FGC programs to use the web and social media for effective communications as well as participating in broader strategic communications efforts.
More info on the FGC website. Applications due June 11th, early applications encouraged.FGC is seeking a full-time Development Associate to become part of FGC’s dynamic development program. This position works closely with the Development Manager, Associate Secretary for Development, and Director of Stewardship Services, an outstanding Development Committee, and the full FGC staff. It is an exciting opportunity to serve the Religious Society of Friends and to move into a rewarding development career, with lots of opportunities in the nonprofit world.
The duties of this position include: support for the annual fund and planned giving, gift entry and acknowledgment, mailing coordination, web content revisions, and reconciling contributions with accounting.
More info on the FGC website. Applications are due June 30.
FCNL is expanding its young adult programming! FCNL is seeking an inspiring
Advocacy Corps Coordinator to launch and lead a new initiative that will become one of the country’s premier training programs for young policy activists. This position will empower hundreds of young people to change national legislation and re-build our democracy. The Advocacy Corps Coordinator will serve as a member of FCNL’s strategic advocacy team, educating and mobilizing key audiences to participate in the organization’s non-partisan, multi-issue advocacy. This work connects historic Quaker testimonies on peace, equality, simplicity and truth with peace and social justice issues.
More info on the FCNL website. Applications due June 6th.
Pendle Hill seeks a part-time Registration Associate (25-29 hours per week) to assist and support the Guest Services Manager in providing the registration functions for all of the Pendle Hill programs and its events.Guest Services Associate
Pendle Hill seeks a part-time Guest Services Associate (25-29 hours per week) to assist and support the Guest Services Manager in providing event planning and event set up and breakdown. This includes the day-to-day physical set up for the programs and events of our conference and educational services.
Pendle Hill is seeking a Bookkeeper to be responsible for day-to-day bookkeeping, financial record keeping, cash receipts, cash disbursements, accounts payable, payroll, benefits administration and other financial management functions in the Business Office.
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