Steward $1M of grants every year!
Recently the Granting Committee found joy and fulfillment! Here’s how:
- Our committee supports nine different granting groups who always need fresh perspectives. Through hard work, collaborative strategizing, and innovation we have made large strides towards accomplishing our goals.
This is a current or upcoming project or interesting thing the Granting Committee is working on:
- The Committee is engaged in becoming a more streamlined, responsive, proactive, cohesive body to support the ability of the granting groups to more effectively and easily implement new strategies to improve the way they make granting decisions.
People who participate in this committee can learn and grow in this way:
- Friends can make Quaker values come to life by recognizing the hardships of the various communities of the Granting Groups missions.
- In a very personal way members can feel the compassion of making the goals, needs and dreams of others come true.
The Granting Committee functions at its best when there are people serving on it who have these skills or experiences:
- An analytical person who is a good organizer and planner with problem solving ability.
- Experience in financial matters and working collaboratively with others, and be a good communicator.
The realistic time commitment of members of this committee includes:
- Attend 90 minute meetings during the 9 months that it meets.
- Each committee member is also a liaison to a granting group to inspire a more collegial and personal relationship with granting groups, helping them to have the resources and support necessary and vital to their functioning. The time commitment of liaisons varies by the granting group they serve on.
Membership:
- Members of committees are appointed by the council they serve. Granting Committee is under Admin Council
- The Committee ideally has ten members and currently has eight.
The Granting Committee is charged to oversee the granting function of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, to appoint membership of PYM granting groups, and to develop and implement procedures to ensure effective process, structure, and the general affairs of the granting function of PYM. Its memberships consists of eight to ten members, appointed by the Administrative Council; the PYM Director of Grant Making and PYM Treasurer are also members of the committee, serving ex officio.
The Granting Committee maintains a handbook of granting policies and procedures [PDF], which are not specific to any group — applicants and prospective applicants should consult each individual Granting Group’s guidelines, rather than consulting the handbook. The Granting Committee also publishes annually a consolidated document containing all the current PYM Grants guidelines and forms [PDF], for ease of reference.
Current Granting Committee Members:
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- May Weldon, Clerk, (Haddonfield Monthly Meeting)
- Carter Nash (Harrisburg Monthly Meeting)
- Jeanne Elberfeld (Reading Monthly Meeting)
- John Hayden (Harrisburg Monthly Meeting)
- Terry Cooke (Haverford Monthly Meeting)
- Samuel Carpenter (Salem Monthly Meeting)
- Lucas Richie (Philadelphia Yearly Meeting)
- Tom Zemaitis (Moorestown Monthly Meeting), Treasurer, ex-officio
- Joey Leroux, Director of Granting and Data, Staff
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