QM/Ph/YM/soc. Social Concerns
Found in 29 Collections and/or Records:
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Social Service Committee (1936-1964)
The Social Service Committee was appointed in 1936, continuing the work of the Committee on Philanthropic Labor of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (Hicksite). Primarily educational in nature, its work included providing information to local Quaker meetings on social service issues. The Committee was renamed the Committee on Social Welfare in 1964.
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Friends Temperance Association (1880-1949)
Records of the Friends Temperence Association of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, 1883-1943, include those of its Main Committee (1925-1939) and Executive Committee (1881-1925), as well as other Miscellaneous Papers (1893-1921) and its publication, "The Outlook" (1892-1898). Additional materials in the QM-Phy-750 collection which includes the successor temperance and alcohol problem committees.
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Committee on the United Nations (1974-2015)
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Women's Problems Group (1917-1969)
Records of the Women's Problem Group of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, 1949-1961.
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Peace and Concerns Standing Committee (1998-2015)
Records of the Peace and Concerns Standing Committee of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, 1998-2003.
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Friends' Workcamp Program (1942-2015)
The Weekend Workcamps Program originated on the eve of World War II. It provides volunteers and opportunity to work in an inner city community, interact with neighbors, and dialog on peace and justice issues. Today the Friends' Workcamp Program operates under the auspices of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting's Standing Committee on Peace and Concerns. Records include minutes, reports, project files, correspondence, and other records from 1942 to the present.
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Meeting for Social Concerns (1969-1974)
The Meeting for Social Concerns began as the Committee for Social Concerns with a deliberately loose structure and open membership. It assumed direction of numerous social action committees within Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. After the Meeting for Social Concerns was laid down in 1974, these committees were placed under Coordinating Committee for Testimonies and Concerns (CCII).
