Membership Development Past Grants

The Membership Development Granting Group supports Monthly and Quarterly Meetings of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting in projects that:

Here are recent grants to provide a sense of the type and scope of the grants.

$1,000 to Barnegate Monthly Meeting for purchase of equipment to facilitate online participation in meeting for worship; a laptop, camera and microphone.
$1,000 to Birmingham Monthly Meeting for a new sign
$993 to Middletown Friends Meeting for the hybrid meeting equipment
$1,000 to Lehigh Valley Monthly Meeting for equipment to facilitate “hybrid” worship

$1,000 to Norristown Monthly Meeting for their technology plan “Connecting Online and In Person. Including the purchase of a “Meeting Owl” to maintain a virtual presence as some Meetings move towards in-person meeting attendance.
$500 to Unami Monthly Meeting for the Meeting’s website, Zoom License, Google Ad Words, SEO, and improvements to an existing outreach sign.

$900 to Middletown Monthly Meeting for a new entrance way road sign.
$2,838 to Medford Monthly Meeting for the installation of a donated swing set as part of a second phase of making their meetinghouse and grounds more welcoming.
$1,000 to Fallowfield Monthly Meeting for the purchase of Audio-visual equipment suitable for their Above Ground Spiritual Railroad programs.
$5,000 to Haddonfield Monthly Meeting for a part-time staff person for membership development
$5,000 to Haddonfield Quarterly Meeting for the creation of the South Jersey Quakers website
$500 to Western and Concord Quarterly Meetings for an implicit bias training with Amanda Kemp
$7oo to Southampton Monthly Meeting for a Quakerism workshop with Paul Buckley, historian and author of Primitive Quakerism Revived.
$5,000 to Providence Monthly Meeting for their “Spirit of our Ancestors” program, a spiritual memorial and historic celebration honoring courageous freedom seekers and the national and local abolitionists and free blacks who helped them.

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