Provides resources for outreach beyond Friends, as well as for intervisitation among other Monthly and Yearly Meetings
Provides summer camping programs for children and adolescents, as well as day programs for adults
Maintains and operates Yearly Meeting properties used for camps, retreats, and other similar activities.
Addresses incarceration and criminal justice concerns. Encourages prison ministry.
Acts as the conscience of the Yearly Meeting on prisons and the death penalty.
Provides educational loans to Baltimore Yearly Meeting members and information on availability of scholarship aid.
Provides grants for religious education and outreach (within Baltimore Yearly Meeting).
Addresses concerns for Native Americans. Friends have been advocates for Native Americans since 1795.
Maintains a manual outlining the organizational structure of the Yearly Meeting, its officers, and its relations to other Friends' bodies.
Assists in the development and exercise of spiritual gifts in both vocal ministry and the ministry of service to others.
Nurtures the gifts of the spirit in the membership.
Supports members in the exercise of those gifts.
Encourages Monthly Meetings to recognize, publicly affirm, and
practically support those who are exercising their gifts in
faithful ministry and service.
Responds to requests from any member of the Yearly Meeting for a certificate to travel in the ministry outside our Yearly Meeting.
Nominates persons to serve on most standing committees; nominates persons to represent Baltimore Yearly Meeting to other Friends' groups.
Provides resources for peace and social justice programs.
Encourages service projects that are inter-generational, inter-cultural, clearly focused, and voluntary. Serves as a clearing house of information on voluntary service projects.
Oversees programs for the Yearly Meeting sessions, including selecting guest speakers and special events and providing space for a bookstore.
Provides religious and Quaker education programs and curricula.
Keeps alive the challenge to simplify our lives and to share with people in developing countries our financial resources and our own lives and experiences. Is responsible for selecting specific projects of economic and social development to which funds contributed by Yearly Meeting members for this purpose shall be devoted.
For further information, here is a link to the national Right Sharing of World Resources organization.
Nominates the officers, the Supervisory Committee, and the Nominating Committee.
Prepares for Yearly Meeting consideration a budget and a plan of apportionment of the budget among the Monthly Meetings. Provides for audits. Keeps Monthly Meetings informed about the financial needs of the Yearly Meeting and of their responsibility to support adequately the activities of the Religious Society of Friends
Meets regularly with the office staff; recommends office staff compensation policies to the Representative Meeting, annually setting specific salaries for office staff; provides guidance to the General Secretary. Oversees the maintenance of the office-residence and office equipment. Carries out such duties as Representative Meeting specifically assigns to it. Between meetings of Representative Meeting, it may act upon urgent matters not involving policy and not considered to justify a special session of Representative Meeting.
Encourages Friends and others to educate themselves and to engage in actions concerning the care and restoration of the natural environment.
Oversees and coordinates Yearly Meeting youth programs other than camping programs and Junior Yearly Meeting, for junior high and high school youth, and provides for the various needs and interests of those youth.
The Young Friends Executive Committee is nominated and appointed by the Young Friends Conference Business Meeting. The Young Friends Executive Committee Clerk is a member of Representative Meeting.
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