QM/Ph/YM. Yearly Meeting business and committees
Found in 58 Collections and/or Records:
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Ad Hoc Committee for Financing the Youth and Family Facility at Burlington Meetinghouse (1988-1995)
Records of the Ad-Hoc Committee for Financing the Youth and Family Facility at Burlington Meetinghouse held at Haverford include the group's Minutes (1990-1995), Correspondence (1988-1993), Financial Records (1989-1992), records pertaining to Keast and Hood Engineers (1992-1993) and its Operations and Use Subcommittee (1993-1994).
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Ad Hoc Working Party on the Abolition of Torture (1976)
An Ad Hoc group to investigate the widespread use of torture around the world was appointed after Yearly Meeting in 1975. In 1976, Arthur W. Clark reported on its work and presented a program on Amnesty International. On the suggestion of Kay Camp, Yearly Meeting recommended that Representative Meeting establish a Working Party on the Abolition of Torture.
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Administrative Council and its predecessors (including General Secretary Offices)
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: AIDS Working Group (1992-2000)
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Annual Sessions
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Bequests Committee (1976-2004)
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Central America Working Group (1985-1996)
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Church Unity Committee (1949-1973)
The Church Unity Committee was composed of a small group of members-at-large appointed by the Yearly Meeting and those Friends who served "in any official capacity as representatives of this Yearly Meeting on State, National, or World Councils of Churches." It had originally been appointed by the Orthodox branch to coordinate ecumenical contacts. The Committee was laid down by Representative Meeting in 1973.
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Committee on Alcohol and Other Drugs and its predecessors (1881-1978)
Records of the Committee on Alcohol Problems of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends and its predecessors, Friends Temperance Committee and the Friends Temperance Association of Philadelphia. Includes minutes, financial records, copies of literature, clippings, and other materials.
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Committee on Racial Concerns (1978-1996)
The Committee on Racial Concerns took up the activities and experience of the Committee on Community Involvement when the latter was laid down at the end of 1978. It operated under the Coordinating Committee for Testimonies and Concerns (CC-2) until it was laid down in 1996.