{"id":2507,"date":"2024-01-31T20:15:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T20:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/charlottesvillefriends.org\/?page_id=2507"},"modified":"2025-10-26T01:00:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T01:00:05","slug":"friends-current-activities","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/charlottesvillefriends.org\/index.php\/friends-current-activities\/","title":{"rendered":"Friends’ Current Activities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We want to know what you are doing! This information inspires other members and helps the Peace and Social Concerns Committee with decisions about the distribution of Corporate Witness funds.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please contact Ann Benner (ann.b.benner@gmail.com) if you would like to add information about your volunteer work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Updated as part of the October 12, 2025 Connections <\/em>program.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friends\u2019 Current Volunteer Activities<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Carol Herrick<\/strong> works in Charlottesville with one of 135 FCNL Advocacy Teams <\/strong>across the country.<\/strong> The Advocacy Team action this year is Aid Not Arms<\/em>, focusing on peace in the Middle East, lobbying for legislation to stop the sale of weapons to Israel, funding the UNRWA to get aid into Gaza and getting a ceasefire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Linda Goldstein <\/strong>participates in the baby rocking program at UVA Hospital<\/strong>, ensuring babies get love and attention at times when family members and staff cannot be there. Linda also volunteers at JABA<\/strong> doing administrative and research work and serves on committees for BYM and CFM including PACEM, <\/strong>which provides housing and hot meals for the homeless. Linda also volunteers at the Ronald MacDonald House<\/strong>, which gives out-of-town families a place to stay when a child is in the hospital. In addition, she helps with a group which offers voter registration and restoring voting rights<\/strong>. She also writes postcards and letters<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nancy Elizabeth Nimmick<\/strong> volunteers with  IMPACT, <\/strong>an interfaith group organized \u2018to create significant social change through unified direct action.\u2019 They have one action focus each year. Nancy believes IMPACT was influential in getting the City to address the need for affordable housing. Cindy Cartright<\/strong> is also active in IMPACT. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sahmat<\/strong> spoke about studying Friends early action intensively. He became involved in AFSC following an upbringing in intentional communities. He is interested in taking away the \u2018occasion of war.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

JoAnn Dalley<\/strong> has served on the Tandem Board<\/strong>, as a Girl Scout leader <\/strong>and in several capacities at Trailblazer Elementary<\/strong>. She is a Charlottesville Area Tree Steward<\/strong> and has served as a board member and as their president. She is also a Rivanna Master Naturalist<\/strong>, focusing on birds. JoAnn does bird surveys<\/strong> and breeding surveys<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ann Benner<\/strong> works with Indivisible<\/strong>. She is a member of the Visibility Brigade<\/strong> which displays large signs over highways and at rallies. Ann also started The Table, <\/strong>a booth at the Saturday IX market focused on providing social action information to shoppers. Each week, a local social service or social action group is also invited to join the Table to educate others about their work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Frances Schutz<\/strong> continues to be active with the League of Women Voters<\/strong>. Twice a year they provide non-partisan help with absentee ballots to residents at the Colonnades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Frances Racette and Dianne Bearinger<\/strong> shared that the PSC Committee<\/strong> is working with the Central Virginia Community Support Fund<\/strong>, which, when possible, pays bonds for those detained by ICE.  The connections to do this came out of the Faith and Immigration work of Jim Webb<\/strong>\u2019s group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jon Nafziger<\/strong> is a member of the Albemarle Rotary Club<\/strong>, a diverse group whose statements on peacemaking reflect values similar to those of Quakers. Jon also serves as director of Charlotteville Partnership (CHIP),<\/strong> a child development support group They worked with 225 families and 335 kids last year. Two-thirds of those they serve are refugee families.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shelley<\/strong> Marshall<\/strong> helps with her daughter\u2019s homeschool coop<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Catherine Fay<\/strong> advocated for volunteering with the local library system<\/strong>. All can volunteer and there are many topics that would resonate with Quakers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ed Wayland <\/strong>has been active with CASA<\/strong> through the years. CASA advocates for families with kids in the juvenile court system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alice Anderson<\/strong> represents CFM at the Clergy Collective<\/strong>. They have organized Moral Mondays<\/strong> at the Free Speech wall on Mondays at 12:30–where there is singing and prayers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elizabeth Shillue<\/strong> continues to work for racial justice with the Beloved Community Charlottesville<\/strong>.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Richard Thayer <\/strong>volunteers with Friends Peace Teams<\/strong>, an organization working collaboratively with communities in conflict around the world to create programs for peace building, healing and reconciliation. Teams now exist on every continent. Richard works with several FPT regions and global communities. Since meetings and many of the peace-building workshops are now virtual, he can participate with colleagues and areas far-removed from Charlottesville!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We want to know what you are doing! This information inspires other members and helps the Peace and Social Concerns Committee with decisions about the distribution of Corporate Witness funds.\u00a0 Please contact Ann Benner (ann.b.benner@gmail.com) if you would like to add information about your volunteer work. Updated as part of the October 12, 2025 Connections […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2507","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/charlottesvillefriends.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/charlottesvillefriends.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/charlottesvillefriends.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/charlottesvillefriends.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/charlottesvillefriends.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2507"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/charlottesvillefriends.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2655,"href":"http:\/\/charlottesvillefriends.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2507\/revisions\/2655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/charlottesvillefriends.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}