QEW Mini-grants in 2011...

Click here to see a PowerPoint presentation about QEW's 2011 Mini-Grants.

Click here to download the application form for 2012 Mini-Grants.

QEW Mini-grants in 2010...

Click here to see a PowerPoint presentation about QEW's 2010 Mini-Grants.

QEW Mini-grants in 2009...

The funded Quaker Mini-Grant projects for 2009 included

• the installation of energy efficient meeting house windows,
• A meeting house composting system & community garden,
• A"Weed Wrench" and composting material for a historic Quaker cemetery,
• A new Energy Star refrigerator,
• A Friends/community herb garden project,
• A project for de-leading the meeting house soil.

Three additional grants were for

• A summer camp program offering environmental programming,
• A Friends School environmental workshop, and
• A project to rehabilitate a part of a Friend Meeting nature preserve.

We are impressed with both the outreach and the practical applications of the Mini-Grants. Every project presented reflects a highly effective way to help our environment.

QEW Mini-grants in 2008...

In 2008 QEW awarded $200 matching grants to five Quaker Meetings or affiliated groups to encourage them to undertake a variety of spirit-led ecological projects. They included 1) Support for the Quaker Bike Trek, in which a group of Friends witnessed for Earth-friendlier travel by biking from Philadelphia to Johnstown, Pa., the site of the 2008 Friends General Conference Gathering, 2) Support for a Quaker-run nature education project in a school district, 3) Replacement of old toilets in a Meeting house with new water-conserving models, 4) Construction of a covered bicycle shed at a Meeting house, and 5) Support for a wildlands restoration project in New Mexico that involves local Quakers. Click here to see a PowerPoint slide show of highlights of these projects.

MINI-GRANTS. The Outreach Committee has care of a new QEW Mini-grant program, which in 2009 will award ten $250 matching grants to Quaker Meetings and Churches for ecological programs.