Grants News

Last fall, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting successfully applied for a Thomas H. and Mary Williams Shoemaker Fund Grant to support hybrid meetings and meeting outreach. A portion of the grant provides

The Hurricane Ida Storm damaged meeting properties and placed many Friends in our PYM Community in precarious situations. While no injuries have been reported, many meetings sustained multiple tree losses,

In March 2021, Millville Monthly Meeting received a grant from the Quaker Buildings & Programs granting group to address pressing issues with their historic meetinghouse. While not a requirement, grant

PYM’s Natalie Clifford Barney Fund provides grants to organizations providing family planning, specifically planned parenthood and birth control. Over the course of winter 2021, members of the Quaker Buildings &

In 2019, PYM’s Travel and Witness granting group awarded Jan and John Schmidt, members of Raleigh Monthly Meeting, a grant for travel to Wellington, New Zealand.  Jan and John would

Featured Photo: The Philadelphia Inquirer – October 1, 1907 Anna T. Jeanes Cremation Fund Friends are reminded that the Anna T. Jeanes Cremation Fund is available to reimburse cremation costs

Picture of the new roof on Greenwich Friends Meeting’s upper meetinghouse On March 27th, 2021, Greenwich Friends Meeting successfully completed a four-month project to remove and replace the cedar shingle

There are opportunities for Philadelphia Yearly Meeting members to share in the stewardship of PYM’s granting funds by joining one of our Granting Groups. Every year, the Granting Committee seeks