Non-academic grants have been made since 1994 from earnings from the endowment (presently at $450,000) part of which is in custody of the Friends Fiduciary Corporation. The following individuals have been recipients of grants ranging from $500 to $2500.
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Jan Grauman-Neander: Nominated by Joy Newall. Under care of Mid-Island Allowed Meeting/Fern St. Meeting, British Columbia. Market research and education to assist Mayan subsistence farmers in Guatemala.
Parker Hoar: Nominated by Helene Pollock. Under care of Mt. Toby Monthly Meeting (MA). Assist in community recovery and rebuilding after natural disasters through designing low-cost safer and healthier homes.
Evelyn Jadin: Nominated by Max Carter. Under care of Friends Meeting of Washington, D.C. Spiritual pilgrimage worshipping with British Friends and visiting historical sites.
Cherice Bock: Nominated by Bruce Bishop. Under care of Newberg Friends Church (OR) Pastoral intern specializing in community building among young adults through small groups focused on social justice and peacemaking.
Molly Sheehan: Nominated by Melanie Douty. Under care of Gwynned Meeting (PA). Working in Rwanda with the Children of Hope program.
Danielle Brown: Nominatetd by Darrin Allen. Under care of North Carolina Yearly Meeting. Served as a NCYM intern coordinating youth groups coming to work at the Alabama Mowa Choctaw Friends Academy.
Anna Staab: Nominated by Bridget Moix. Under care of Purchase Monthly Meeting (NY). Video documentary of the Powell House Reunion held July 13-16, 2006.
Jonathan Watts: Nominated by Max Carter. Under care of the Guilford College Quaker Leadership Scholars Program and Richmond (VA) Meeting. Organized a coalition of artists that focuses on making available distinctly Quaker music.
Kathryn Lum: Nominated by Janet Anderson. Under care of Lund Monthly Meeting (Sweden). Engaged in a service project in Punjab, India, centered on Sikh women in their sturggle for spiritual equality within their faith.
Keevy Harris: Nominated by Darrin Allen. Under care of Cedar Sqaure Friends Meeting (NC). Worked with the Mowa Choctaw community in McIntosh, AL.
Joseph Shamala Mmbere: Nominated by Bridget Moix. Under care of Kakamega Friends Church (Kenya). Promoted participation of young Kenyans in the Young Quaker’s Christian Association Triennial Sessions held in Rwanda December 13-17, 2006.
Holly Baldwin: Nominated by Carolyn Miller. Under care of Midcoast Monthy Meeting, Camden, ME. Participating in the World Gathering of Young Friends in England.
Aja Bryant: Nominated by Mary Ellen McNish. Under care of Newton Monthly Meeting, PA. Participating in the World Gathering of Young Friends in England.
Anna K. Crumley-Effinger: Nominated by Louise Beede. Under care of West Richmond Monthly Meeting, Richmond, IN. WGYF and Work Camps with Friends in Africa.
Christina H. Freeman: Nominated by Helene Pollock. Under care of Wilmington Monthly Meeting, Wilmington, DE. Developing a collaborative photography and journaling project among youth of Xilitila, Mexico.
Martin Kelley: Nominated by Bruce Birchard. Under care of Atlantic City Area Monthly Meeting, NJ. Developing an independent online publication for older Young Friends.
Dorsche Pinsky: Nominated by Max Carter. Under care of Central Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, PA. Working with economically challenged residents of Guadalajara, Mexico.
Christina Repoley: Nominated by Louise E. Harris. Under care of Charlotte Monthly Meeting, NC. Working for justice as a Quaker representative on the Young Adult Advisory Board of the National Farm Worker Ministry.
Katie Walsh: Nominated by Allyson Nagle. Under care of Willoughby Hills Friends Church, OH. Participating in Malone College Service Learning trip to Dominican Republic.
Evan Welkin: Nominated by Max Carter. Under care of Agate Passage Monthly Meeting, Poulsbo, WA. Traveling among Eastern Seaboard Quaker Meetings to build understanding.
Gregory Woods: Nominated by Elizabeth Mertie. Under care of Columbia Friends Meeting/MO. Project Lockota.
Adam Waxman: Nominated by Max Carter. Under care of QLSP Meeting for Worship.
Breeze Luetke-Stahlman: Nominated by Penn Valley Monthly Meeting. Under care of 57th Street Meeting/Chicago. Internship Chicago Public Radio.
Rachel Phillips: Nominated by Seve Baumgartner. Under care of Settle Monthly Meeting/UK. World Gathering of Young Friends.
Jessica Owens: Nominated by Ric Garrison. Under care of LeGrand Friends Meeting/IA. Youth Ministry Internship Program Development.
Anna Brown: Nominated by Jerry Reisig and Lori Hiningex. Under care of Morningside Monthly Meeting/NY. Investigation of international and national resource management policy effects on conflict resolution/Lower Mekong River area
Ben Waxman: Nominated by Jack Malinowski. Under care of Chestnut Hill Friends Meeting. Summer work with Unite for Peace.
Lauren Mitchell: Nominated by Max Carter. Under care of Asheville Friends Meeting. Planning committee involvement for the 2005 World Gathering of Young Friends.
Brynne Howard: Nominated by D.J. Newlin. Under care of Des Moines Valley Friends. Internship with Des Moines, Iowa, ASFC office.
Julian OReilly: Nominated by Steve Baumgartner. Under care of Twin Cities Friends Meeting. Experimentation in using an arts program to enhance interracial and intercultural communication.
Sarah Kaufman: Nominated by Helene Pollock. Under care of Germantown Monthly Meeting. Observation of Quaker education in Bolivia.
Kirsten Bohl: Nominated by Patrick Nugent. Under care of Durham Monthly Meeting. Doing a general representative survey of Friends views of homosexuality for possible publication.
Elizabeth Baltero, Greensboro, N.C.: Nominated by Max Carter. Under auspices of the Quaker United Nations Office she is leading peace and volunteer projects in Italy.
Cory Godbey, Mission, Texas: Nominated by 1999 grantee David Byrne. Will be doing faith ministry in Saltillo. Mexico, under aegis of Mid-America Yearly Meeting.
Katherine Graves, Georgetown, Kentucky: Nominated by Carrie Stith Webster. Through personal contacts in Russia she will collaborate with young orphan children's professionals and assist in making orphanages there, and elsewhere, better places.
Rachel McQual, Waterloo, Toronto. Canada: Nominated by Ellen Helmuth. Is being enabled to participate in FUM youth work camp in July in connection with FUM Triennial in Kenya.
Andrew Peterson, Denver. Colorado: (presently a Haverford student) Nominated by Helene Pollock. Picketts fund matches a Haverford grant supporting his conflict resolution work in El Salvador.
Julia Ryberg, Swartbacken. Sweden: Nominated by Kersten Backman and Lars Longueville. Requires subsidy to complete Earlham School of Religion extension courses to qualify for a leadership career in Sweden Yearly Meeting.
Laura Smoot, Haverford, Pennsylvania: Nominated by Ralph Caldwell. Pickett assistance enables her to be a summer intern with youth arts programs of the Village of Arts and Humanities in North Philadelphia.
Kyle Stevens, New Castle, Indiana: Nominated by Ronn Oren. Under care of his church, youth ministers, and Indiana Yearly Meeting, he begins serving (at age 17) a youth pastoral internship at the Wabash, Indiana Friends Church.
Michael Arnold, West Grove, N.C. is seeking to establish a local Friends Center at Snow Camp, N.C. This facility will serve fourteen meetings within a 25-mile radius, variously affiliated with FUM, FGC. Conservative, EFC and Independent.
Vanessa Julye, Philadelphia, PA., is doing an active ministry to help Friends be more welcoming to people of color and plans to participate in the United Nations World Conference Against Racism (and related issues) in Durban, South Africa. After the conference, she will do writing and otherwise share her experiences throughout America.
Candace Kugel and Ed Zuroweste, Chambersburg, PA., trained nurse and family doctor, are designing and developing healthcare programs in rural Honduras that in turn will enhance the cultural competence of international health care providers in the U.S. This family team already has had extensive travel and volunteer service experience in Central America.
Paula Palmer, Boulder, CO., is the director of an already existing organization, Global Response, and seeks to develop a global network of young people and youth organizations to do letter-writing campaigns for environmental protection and indigenous rights.
Nikki Coffey-Tousley, Durham, NC., will participate in an "Experiment with Light," a movement among British Friends for recovering worship and discernment as practiced among early Friends. While at Woodbrooke Quaker Study Center in England, she will interview Friends in depth about their understanding of how Christian worship relates to social action in today's world.
Bridget Moix, member of New York's 15th Street Meeting--nominated by Joe Volk. Bridget is completing a masters program at Columbia, and has served as a legislative associate with Friends Committee on National Legislation. She is currently interning part-time at the World Policy Institute and plans to seek a career in a Quaker service agency. Bridget's Pickett Fund project will involve organizing a women's peacemaking group.
Kathleen Paulmier, member of Germantown Meeting--nominated by Jack Malinowski.Kathleen teaches Quakerism at Germantown Friends School where she seeks to involve students in the larger community. Her Pickett Fund project will involve the production of a video about meeting for worship using interviews and children's art and music.
Julia Pantoga, member of Milwaukee Meeting--nominated by Judith Jager. Julia is affiliated with the Quaker Voluntary Service and Witness Network. Her Pickett Fund project involves the publication of current Quaker Service Opportunities.
Marcelle Martin, co-clerk of Newtown Square Meeting, nominated by Michael Wajda.Marcelle has been a community activist in the Philadelphia area. Her Pickett Fund project involves writing a book about the transforming power of a direct relationship with God, especially among women.
Dinova Uvalle-Vasques, affiliated with meetings in Cuidad Victoria, Mexico, and West Elkton, Ohio--nominated by Nancy Maeder (a 1998 Pickett Fund grantee).Dinova is a third-generation Mexican Friend (alumna of Earlham School of Religion) who expects to serve in Friends ministry. At present she is leader of the Latino Culture Center (Amigos) in Richmond, Indiana, where approximately 1200 new Latino residents urgently require assistance. Her Pickett Fund project will involve providing this assistance.
Sean Crane--active participant at Media Monthly Meeting (Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting) to assist his work related to restorative justice.
Eden Grace--member of Beacon Hill Meeting (New England Yearly Meeting) to assist in her service as a delegate from Friends United Meeting to the 8th Assembly of the World Council of Churches.
Chris Parker--member of Cambridge Monthly Meeting (New England Yearly Meeting) to assist in his desire to create a service program offering full-time service placement with community organizations.
David Byrne--active participant of Friendswood Monthly Meeting (MidAmerica Yearly Meeting) to assist in the development of a leadership training program designed to aid Hispanic ministers.
Harold Confer: Leader in the Friend's workcamp movement of the nineties. Recently led volunteer work to rebuild burned churches in the South. A member of Adelphi Meeting, Baltimore Yearly Meeting.
Allyn Dynes: Teacher in Ramallah Friends School and writing a textbook on conflict resolution. Member of Northwest Yearly Meeting and Ramallah Friends Meeting.
Alex Kern: Teacher at Moorestown Friends School representing Friends as a steward at the 8th Assembly of the World Council of Churches meeting in Zimbabwe. He's effectively committed to religious ecumenicity. Member of Friends Meeting of Washington, D.C.
Nancy Maeder: Friend in residence at the Ramallah Schools. Through teaching and action she will "encourage and support Friends' spiritual witness." Member of Woolson Friends Meeting, Iowa Yearly Meeting.
Susannah McCandless: In the summer of 1998 she brought two Monteverde-related campesinos to study Vermont's Intervale Farm. In conjunction with a Fulbright grant she will spend six months in Costa Rica studying sustainable agriculture and empowering landless farmers to buy land and to farm ecologically. Member of Burlington, Vermont Meeting, New England Yearly Meeting.
Deborah Shaw: Assistant Director of the Guilford College Friends Center overseeing the spiritual development of over 40 Quaker students. She will travel to England and Scotland to "walk in the footsteps of early Quaker women ministers, dating to 1652." Member of Friendship Friends Meeting, North Carolina Yearly Meeting (Conservative).
Mia Carter, member of New Garden meeting in Greensboro--nominated by Richard Conto. The Pickett grant funded an internship with the Richmond Peace Education Center.
Andrea White, member of Fellowship of Friends in Chicago--nominated by Steve and Marlene Pedigo. The Pickett grant funded a day camp for 25 school-age children living in the inner city Cabrini-Green housing area served by Chicago Fellowship of Friends.
Laura Melly, member of Central Philadelphia Monthly Meeting--nominated by Margaret Hart Harrison. The Pickett Grant assisted Laura's collaboration with various Friends organizations in opening volunteer and leadership opportunities for young adult Friends
Arden Buck was assisted in his work to develop an acoustical device for detecting buried land mines. Arden is a member of Boulder Meeting (Colorado).
Daniel Rouse developed a series of workshops and convocations specifically for Germantown Friends School centered on service as learning." Daniel is a member of Germantown Friends (Pennsylvania).
Aaron Fowler took a leave of absence from teaching to give full time to develop Hope Street Productions which specializes in seminars and special programs which teach children goal setting and problem solving skills. Aaron is a member of Northridge Friends (MidAmerica Yearly Meeting).
Stan Becker engaged four U.S. yearly meetings and one Latin America yearly meeting in discussion of population concerns. Stan is a member of Homewood Meeting (Baltimore) and teaches in the School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins.
Herb Walters worked with Religion and Diversity Project to increase communication and understanding in area churches concerning the issue of homosexuality. Herb is a member of Celo Meeting (North Carolina).
Chandra Woolson sought to examine and experience Quakerism down under in New Zealand with emphasis on the impact of isolation of the meetings. She also produced a photographic essay on meeting house architecture. Chandra is a member of Fredonia Monthly Meeting (New York).
Sunu Chandy spent a year in her ancestral country of India to continue the work of Trivandrum (abode of friends) in Kerala which supports the ongoing struggle against oppression, discrimination and exploitation of women. Sunu is a member of Chicago Monthly Meeting and a 1994 honor graduate of Earlham College.