The Yearly Meeting establishes committees for the carrying out of its purposes. All committees should report annually. Each committee reports both on its activities and on matters which are seen as needing attention, with some analysis of the health of the committee. If a committee sees no way in which it can carry out the concerns placed upon it, its members should request the Interim Meeting to re-examine the function and structure of the committee and make appropriate recommendations to the Yearly Meeting. Failure of a committee to report is also an indication that a review process should be initiated.

It is the duty of the functional committees from time to time, as the occasion demands, to prepare position papers on matters of current interest and concern within their fields of interest and to present these position papers before the Yearly Meeting or the Interim Meeting for approval. Such position papers should have the approval of the interested functional committee at a called meeting of the committee and, if possible, are distributed to members of the Yearly Meeting along with Yearly Meeting committee reports prior to Yearly Meeting sessions at which they will be considered. These papers, as adopted by the Yearly Meeting, will then form the main part of the background of policy on the basis of which the functional committee may act on behalf of the Yearly Meeting.

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Manual of Procedure, July 2004, pp13-14 (Emphasis added)

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2006 Annual Sessions

• COMMITTEE REPORTS [PDF]
  • Advancement And Outreach Committee
  • Camp Property Management Committee
  • Camping Program Committee
  • Criminal And Restorative Justice Committee
  • Educational Funding Resources Committee
  • Ethel Reynolds Fund Committee
  • Faith And Practice Revision Committee
  • Friends United Meeting Representatives
  • Gender And Sexual Diversity Concerns
  • Indian Affairs Committee
  • Intervisitation Committee
  • Manual Of Procedure Committee
  • Ministry And Pastoral Care Committee
  • Peace And Social Concerns Committee
  • Racism Among Friends
  • Religious Education Committee
  • Stewardship And Finance Committee
  • Sue Thomas Turner Quaker Education Fund
  • Trustees
  • Unity With Nature Committee
  • Web Publishing Committee
  • Youth Programs Committee

• ORGANIZATIONS [PDF]
  • American Friends Service Committee
  • Friends Committee On National Legislation
  • Friends House Retirement Community
  • Friends Peace Team
  • Friends United Meeting
  • Friends World Committee For Consultation
  • QEW: Quaker Earthcare Witness
  • Right Sharing Of World Resources
  • Sandy Spring Friends School
  • Washington Quaker Workcamps
  • William Penn House

• Budget Information
  • Membership Statistics
  • 2006 Budget Recommendation

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