Sue Thomas Turner Quaker Education Fund
Sue Thomas Turner Quaker Education Fund
The Sue Thomas Turner Quaker Education Fund Committee consists
of one member appointed by the Advancement and Outreach Committee
and one appointed by the Religious Education Committee. Such appointments
are for two-year terms. Members may not serve for more than six
consecutive years. Other members may be co-opted as appropriate.
In addition, Rosalind Turner Zuses will serve as convenor without
a term limit until such time as she is unable or unwilling to
continue.
The Fund was established in Baltimore Yearly Meeting in 1996
by Howard and Rosalind Turner Zuses in recognition of Sue Thomas
Turner’s long support of Quaker education and Quaker values
in public education. Its purpose is to support the understanding
and practice of Quaker faith in schools and to support the growth
of a life lived in the Spirit by members of the school communities.
School community members include students, faculty, staff, administration,
trustees, and parents. The Fund is targeted for, but not limited
to, Friends schools under the care of a Friends Meeting.
The Fund is intended to be used for materials, lectures and consultants,
workshops and retreats, and programs and activities which help
to explain Quaker faith and practice to members of the school
communities, to be brought into the schools for individuals or
groups from the school communities to attend workshops, classes
or retreats on Quaker faith and practice and spiritual development
and for the creation and distribution of materials related to
these issues by members of the school communities. The Fund would
be limited to uses which are in addition to those already funded
by a school or committee budget, or to augment funds to enable
a use which exceeds ordinary funding.
Applications from schools, Meetings, committees, Friends’
agencies or individuals for a specific project must be received
by March 15. In general, the Committee meets once a year, usually
on Spring Yearly Meeting Day. The amount of money distributed
is a percentage, adjusted as the Committee determines is appropriate,
of the value of the Fund at the time of distribution.
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Manual of Procedure, July 2004, p35
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Advance Report - 2008
The purpose of the Sue Thomas Turner Quaker Education Fund is to support the understanding and practice of Quaker faith in schools and the growth of a “life lived in the Spirit of Friends” by members of the school communities.
In 2008 the Sue Thomas Turner Quaker Education Fund received 16 requests for funds. The committee considered the requests and distributed, with great pleasure, $7,175 in full or partial grants for 13 uses consistent with purpose of the fund. The recipients were: - Abington Friends School, PA ($1000 to fund professional development and a document on Quakerism instruction;
- Frankford Friends School, PA ($135 for curriculum materials);
- Friends Meeting School, MD ($550 to fund a panel on Quaker Education);
- Friends Mufutu Secondary School, Kitale, Kenya ($475 for lectures and workshops on Quaker F & P);
- Friends School of Charlotte, NC ($500 for two lecture/forums on Quaker practice in Quaker Education);
- Friends School of Portland, ME ($300 to send teachers to Friends Council on Education (FCE) Workshop);
- Friends Western School,
CA ($500 to send a teacher to Pendle Hill workshop);
- Lansdowne Friends School, PA ($630 for Irene McHenry to facilitate a Mindfulness Training Day);
- Mahusi Friends Quaker School, Malava, Kenya ($500 for books and facilitators of Quaker religious education);
- Mary McDowell Center for Learning, NY ($750 for project on Quaker Testimonies);
- Moorestown Friends School, NJ ($500 to have FCE bring workshop for new faculty & staff);
- State College Friends School, PA ($750 to fund Art Larrabee workshop on Quaker decision-making) and
- Thornton Friends School, MD ($585 to participate in the Quaker Youth Leadership Conference).
The committee was very pleased with the opportunity to support Quaker faith and practice in education again this year. In 2007 we had difficulty arranging for funds to be transferred securely to the schools in Kenya, and we are seeking assistance from other Friends’ organizations that have direct connections in Kenya to solve this, and expect to have all the funds transferred.
The committee will meet in March 2009 to consider new requests. Request deadline will be MARCH 1, 2009.
Rosalind Zuses, Clerk
Advance Report - 2007
The
purpose of the Sue Thomas Turner Quaker Education Fund is to support the
understanding and practice of Quaker faith in schools, and to support the
growth of a "life lived in the Spirit" by members of the school
communities.
In
2007 the Sue Thomas Turner Quaker Education Fund received 20 requests for
funds, including 1 from Ramallah and 6 from Kenya. The committee considered the requests and distributed, in great
optimism, $5075 in full or partial grants for 11 uses consistent with purpose
of the fund. The recipients were, Ramallah
Friends (Boys) School, West Bank ($400 for Quaker curriculum materials); Sandy
Spring Friends School, MD ($340 to send 4 to Clerking Workshops); Friends
Meeting School, MD ($520 to weave Quaker values and history into
curriculum); Friends School of Wilmington, NC ($500 to bring Friends
Council on Education [FCE] trainers); Mary McDowell Center for Learning,
NY ($500 to develop biography of Quaker Mary McDowell); Friends School of
Atlanta, GA ($500 to bring Friends Council on Education [FCE] workshop); Thornton
Friends School, MD ($500 to purchase Friends General Conference
publications); Mukuyu Girls Secondary School, Kenya ($465 for a seminar
for teachers of 8 Friends Schools); Friends Lirhanda Girls High School,
Kenya ($550 for an in-service for teachers on Quaker values); Friends School
of Portland, ME ($500 to purchase Quaker books and pamphlets for
curriculum); and The Woolman Semester (formerly John Woolman School),
CA, ($300 for a non-violence training day for students in the context of the
Peace Testimony).
The
committee was very pleased with the opportunity to support Quaker faith and
practice in education.
The
committee will meet in March 2008 to consider new requests. Request
deadline will be MARCH 1, 2008.
Rosalind
Zuses, Clerk
Advance Report - 2006
The
purpose of the Sue Thomas Turner Quaker Education Fund is to support the
understanding and practice of Quaker faith in schools, and to support the
growth of a "life lived in the Spirit" by members of the school
communities.
In
2006 the Sue Thomas Turner Quaker Education Fund received 10 requests for
funds. The committee considered the
requests and distributed, with great pleasure, $4947.59, in full or partial
grants for 10 uses consistent with purpose of the fund. The recipients were Carolina Friends
School, NC, ($500 for staff to attend Friends Council on Education [FCE]
workshops); Friends Central School, PA ($500 to support a Quaker potluck
Group for parents); Friends School of Portland, ME ($586.59 to purchase
Quaker books and pamphlets for curriculum); Greene Street Friends School,
PA ($365 to send staff to FCE workshop); Greenwood Friends School, PA
($496 to hold Peace Colloquium with Bruce Birchard from FGC); New Garden
Friends School, NC ($400 purchase Quaker reference books for their newly
acquired high school program); Northern Virginia Friends School, VA
($500 for a School Committee retreat on Quaker Process); Westbury Friends
School, NY ($500 to bring J. Harry Hammond to speak to staff on Quaker
pedagogy in the classroom); William Penn House, DC, ($500 to help bring
20 teachers to 2006 Teachers of Peace
workshop at WPH) and The Woolman Semester (formerly John Woolman School),
CA, ($500 to purchase Quaker books and media for the library and
curriculum).
The
committee was very pleased with the caliber of the requests and the opportunity
to support Quaker faith and practice in education. This year we again chose
to go into our principal as well as using our income. In
order to give help for these worthwhile projects in the future, the principal
needs to continue to grow. We ask that others who feel a leading to
support this important work, please contribute whatever they are able to the
endowment. Funds may go to the BYM with
a notation for the "Sue Thomas Turner Quaker Education Fund
Endowment". Thank you in advance for your support.
The
committee will meet in March 2007 to consider new requests. Request
deadline will be MARCH 1, 2007.
Rosalind
Zuses, Clerk
Advance Report - 2005
The purpose of the Sue Thomas Turner Quaker Education Fund is to support the understanding and practice of Quaker faith in schools, and to support the growth of a "life lived in the Spirit" by members of the school communities.
In 2005 the Sue Thomas Turner Quaker Education Fund received 18 requests for funds. The Committee considered the requests and distributed $5,400 in full or partial grants for 11 uses consistent with the purpose of the fund. The recipients were:
- Friends School of Atlanta ($500 for faculty to go to Southern Friends School Day);
- Friends School of Wilmington, North Carolina ($500 for new faculty to attend FCE "Educators New to Quakerism");
- Germantown Friends School, Philadelphia ($500 to help print a Friends Faith & Practice booklet for the community);
- Mary McDowell Center for Learning, New York ($500 to purchase materials for a curriculum on stewardship or simplicity);
- Malava Yearly Meeting, Kenya, Africa ($500 for production of a Quaker Faith & Practice pamphlet and a symposium on Quaker process for teachers of Malava Friends Schools);
- Newtown Friends School, Newton, Pennsylvania ($450 to purchase books on Friends testimonies to read to the students);
- Northern Virginia Friends School, Oakton ($500 to send faculty to a FCE workshop);
- Oakwood Friends School, Poughkeepsie, New York ($500 to bring Art Larrabee to lead a clerking workshop for the Board);
- Tandem Friends School, Charlottesville ($500 to help host a three Friends Schools peace conference);
- William Penn House, District of Columbia ($500 to help ten teachers come to a peace curriculum workshop at WPH):
- and The Woolman Semester (formerly John Woolman School), Nevada City, California ($450 to bring Quaker speakers and consultants to support their peace curriculum).
There is one request pending from Pemba Yearly Meeting, Zanzibar, Africa, as we have a language difficulty we hope to clear up.
The Committee was very pleased with the caliber of the requests and the opportunity to support Quaker faith and practice in education. This year we again chose to go into our principal as well as using our income. In order to give help for these worthwhile projects in the future, the principal needs to continue to grow. We ask that others who feel a leading to support this important work, please contribute whatever they are able to the endowment. Funds may go to the BYM with a notation for the "Sue Thomas Turner Quaker Education Fund Endowment." Thank you in advance for your support.
The committee will meet in March 2006 to consider new requests. Request deadline will be February 15, 2006.
Rosalind Zuses, Clerk
Annual Report 2004
The purpose of the Sue Thomas Turner Quaker Education Fund is
to support the understanding and practice of Quaker faith in schools,
and to support the growth of a “life lived in the Spirit” by members
of the school communities.
In 2004 the Sue Thomas Turner Quaker Education Fund received
16 requests for funds. The Committee considered the requests and
distributed a record $6230 in full or partial grants for 14 uses
consistent with purpose of the fund. The recipients were:
- Cambridge Friends School, MA, ($500 to create a CFS Faith
& Practice booklet),
- Friends Child Care Center, PA ($500 for a Quaker Education
Workshop for the teachers);
- Friends Meeting School, MD, ($400 for preparation of materials
integrating Quaker concepts into a traditional academic curriculum);
- Friends Select School, PA, ($400 to purchase Governance Handbook
for Friends School for their Board);
- The Meeting School, NH ($500 for a workshop on diversity in
light of Friends faith & practice);
- Media-Providence Friends School, PA, ($500 to send two non-Quaker
board members to FCE workshop);
- Moorestown Friends School, NJ, ($500 for production of a MFS
faith & practice pamphlet);
- Newtown Friends School, PA ($500 to hire a consultant to guide
the implementation by Quaker process of the NFS’s strategic
plan);
- Northern Virginia Friends School, VA ($500 for FGC curriculum
materials);
- Orchard Friends School, NJ ($275 to assist sending two teachers
to FCE workshop);
- Olney Friends School, OH ($455 for workshop and materials
on sexual diversity within the Quaker testimony of equality);
- School for Friends, DC ($500 to send attendants to Friends
Schools Peer Network gathering);
- Stratford Friends School, PA ($500 for a symposium for the
teachers on Quaker decision-making process) and
- Virginia Beach Friends School, VA, ($200 to support a Civil
Rights Day highlighting Quakers and use of Quaker testimony
in the history of the Civil Rights movement).
The Committee was very pleased with the caliber of the requests
and the opportunity to support Quaker faith and practice in education.
This year we chose to go into our principal as well as using our
income, because the grants were so compelling. In order to give
help for these worthwhile projects in the future, the principal
needs to grow. We ask that others who feel a leading to support
this important work, please contribute whatever they are able
to the endowment. Funds may go to the BYM with a notation for
the “Sue Thomas Turner Quaker Education Fund Endowment”. Thank
you in advance for your support.
The Committee will meet in March 2005 to consider new requests.
Request deadline will be March 15, 2005.
Rosalind Zuses, Clerk
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