Twentieth Century Organizations Founded By Individual Quakers or Groups of Quakers or Quakers in Other Groups
By Sally Rickerman, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting

For those Friends who wonder why this list has been compiled Friends have an opportunity to share their unique and world changing message with others as we and the world ready ourselves for the 21st Century. Early Friends were under the weight of sharing their understanding of their relationship to the Divine. They were so under this weight that they willingly spent long periods of time in prison, where almost 500 of them lost their lives because prison conditions were so horrible. They accepted the loss of their property and livelihood. They allowed their families to suffer from their extended absences (for prison or for the ministry) and consequential financial losses. They did not hesitate because they believed this commitment was required of them in order to bring the Kingdom of Heaven to Earth. Are we, in this last decade of the 20th Century, able to look at the Religious Society of Friends and its necessary place in the world, with vision? Or are we only able to look at Quakerism as a comforting refuge for ourselves-a safe place where it is possible for us to heal our individual society-wounded psyches? Have we realized that if Quakerism were better known, less inaccessible and more readily available to those seeking it, our world might be changed? Are we less committed today to this earth shaking challenge than were the early Friends? The purpose of this list is not to pat ourselves on the back to say well done and rest on the laurels of the past. The hope is it will help Friends to comprehend what a precious jewel of empowerment we have and to inspire and enable us to sacrifice to share it with those in the world who do not known the name of Quakerism and where to find it. If we become more public about our Quakerism, those with whom we come in contact will be able to become aware that it is a viable choice in the world of today. This becoming more public may entail sacrifices. The sacrifice for us may be our being more open about Quakerism in an environment which does not share our values. The sacrifice may be to take the risk of changing the "mix" of our meeting. The sacrifice may be in becoming more involved with meetings from unstructured worship groups through monthly, quarterly, yearly meetings and even FGC (FUM and EFI)! The sacrifice may be for each one of us not to lose sight of the need to balance the spiritual life and the one of action. This list of 100 organizations does not include the myriad number of local watershed associations, food coops, coop nurseries and the like. It concentrates only on those with widespread effect. The fact is that, because the nature of our religion is built on trust and respect, we are liberated to go out into the world in disproportionate numbers and improve the lot of our fellow human beings. Friends are only .02 of 1% of the world's Christians! Think of the changes that could take place if we were more! Does this, then, not mean that we are called to share this wealth of love and trust and growth with those who seek it? - Sally Rickerman

1. (?) = Thought but not checked. Blank = Quaker, but no name yet.
2. Access: Mary Lord (data based on international issues)
3. Action Aid: (British)
4. AIDS Quilt Project: Cleve Jones
5. Allotment Movement: (British)
6. Alternative to Violence Program: NYYM
7. American Association of Marriage Councilors: David & Vera Mace
8. American Civil Liberties Union: Alan Olmsted & Roger Baldwin
9. American Field Service: (?)
10. Amigos Construction & Community Development Corp.: Miami Friends
11. Amnesty International: Peter Bennison or Eric Baker
12. AQUAG (A Quaker Action Group): George Lakey & many others
13. Back to the Land Movement: Helen & Scott Nearing
14. Bail Bond Program: Philadelphia Yearly Meeting members
15. Belgian-American Foundation: Herbert Hoover
16. Black Americans to Support Israel: Bayard Rustin
17. Bosnian Peace Center: Ted Herman
18. Care: Paul Comly French
19. Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors: Jim Bristol
20. Child Poverty Action Group: (British)
21. Childrens' Creative Response to Conflict: NY Quaker Project on Community Skills
22. Christian Aid: (British)
23. Christmas Peace Walk: Robert C. Euler
24. Co-op America: Movement for a New Society
25. Community Dispute Settlement Program: Jennie Beer, Eileen Stief & Charlie Walker
26. Concerts for Humanity: Philadelphia Yearly Meeting members
27. CORE: (Founded in the Watson's living room at the U of Chicago)
28. CRUSE: (British Women's support group): Margaret Torrie
29. Delaware Valley Land Trust: Lillian & George Willoughby
30. Despair Workshops: Joanna Macy
31. Doctors Against Nuclear War: Doctors Without Borders: Canadian Yearly Meeting members
32. Educating Children for Parenting: Sally Scattergood
33. Employment Research Associates: Marion Anderson
34. Equal Rights Amendment: Alice Paul
35. Experiment in International Living: (?)
36. Fellowship Farm: Helen Bryan, Helen Tomkins & Grace Waring
37. Fellowship of Reconciliation: Henry Joel Cadbury, Rufus Jones & Henry Hodgkin
38. Fihankra Project, Inc.: Deborah Saunders
39. Findhorn: Dorothy McLean
40. Finnish-American Scholarship Fund: David Hinshaw
41. Friendly Centers Of India: P. V. Chandy
42. Girl Scout Cookies: Lou Henry Hoover
43. [not founded by a Friend after all]
44. Green Circle: Gladys Rawfim & Margaret Thomforde
45. Greenpeace: Irving Stowe
46. Grey Panthers: Polly Cuthbertson
47. Help the Aged: (British)
48. Hiroshima Maidens: Eleanor Taber
49. Institute for the Study of Movement: Joan Baez
50. International Peace Research Institute: Elise Boulding
51. International Women's Suffrage Alliance: Carrie Chapman Cutt
52. Jobs for Peace: George Lakey
53. Justice, Peace & Integrity of Creation: Dutch Friends
54. Law of the Seas Treaty: Sam & Miriam Levering
55. League of Women Voters: Alice Paul
56. LEAP-Leaveners Experimental Art Project: (British)
57. Life Care Communities: Alan White. Lloyd Lewis
58. Listening Project: Herb Walters
59. London Bach Society: Peter Steinitz 1910-1988
60. Love Makes a Family, Inc.: Bonnie Tinker
61. Mort Frank's Newsletter: Mort Frank
62. Mothers for Peace: Lucy Behenna & Marion Mansergh
63. Movement for New Society: George Lakey, Lillian & George Willoughby
64. NAACP: Hollingsworth Wood
65. National Association of Religious Liberals: Henry Miller
66. National Baseball Association: Fran Martinson
67. National Fan Club: Mary Rhodes
68. National Farmers Alliance: Milton George
69. National Peace Academy: Elise Boulding
70. Never Again Campaign: Marion & Dick Lathrop
71. Nuclear Dialogue: Princeton Monthly Meeting members
72. Nuclear Freeze Movement: Philadelphia Yearly Meeting members
73. Over Ground Railway: Quaker Women at a FGC Gathering
74. Ovum Pacis-Women's Peace University: Alice Wiser & Marcia Mason
75. OXFAM: Cecil Jackson-Cole
76. Pacific Oaks College: John & Alice Way; Clarence & Margaret Yarrow; William & Jean Taylor Robert & Asenath Young and Philip & Marguerite Wells
77. Peace Brigades International: George Willoughby
78. Peace Corps: Herbert Hoover
79. Peace Council: Elise Boulding
80. Peace Grows: John Looney
81. Peace History Society: Merle Curtis, Paul Lauter, Edwin Bronner & Frederick Tolles
82. Peace Institute Research Group: Marion Anderson
83. Peace Now Movement: Dorothy Hutchinson
84. Peaceable Kingdom Inc.: Robert J. McAfee
85. Pennsylvania Freeze: Jessie Cox
86. Prison Visitation Society: Fay Honey Knapp
87. Prisoner Visitation & Support: Bob & Kay Horton
88. Pro-Nica: Bob Barnes
89. QSF (Quaker Spiritual Friends for Prisoners: Gene Hillman & Sally Rickerman
90. RASP-Remarkable Aging Smart People: Ruth Jacobs
91. Renovaré: Richard Foster
92. Rural Southern Voice for Peace: Herb Walters
93. Sanctuary Movement: Jim Corbett
94. SANE: Robert Gilmore
95. Save the Children Federation: Clarence Pickett
96. School of the Spirit: Sandra Cronk & Kathryn Damiano
97. SEICUS-Sex Education Information Council US: Mary Calderone
98. Servant Leadership: Robert Greenleaf
99. Servas: Bob Luitweiler & Danish Quakers
100. Service Civile Internationale: Pierre Cerresole
101. Single Booklovers: Robert and Ruth Leach
102. Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children: John D. Wright
103. Southern Christian Leadership Conference: Bayard Rustin
104. Southern Institute for Appropriate Technology: Bill O'Connor
105. Southern Institute of Applied Technology: Bill O'Connor
106. Status of Women: (Canadian) Ursula Frank & Nancy Pocock
107. Teaching in a Nuclear Age: Margaret Lippencott
108. UNIPAL (University Help for Palestinians): Eleanor Aitken
109. United States Committee on Africa: Bayard Rustin
110. United States Ecumenical Church Center: Miriam Levering
111. United States Indochina Reconciliation Project: John Meauliff
112. Urban League: Hollingsworth Wood
113. US/USSR Committee: Anthony Manousos
114. Voluntary & Christian Service: (British)
115. Voluntary Service Overseas: Pierre Cerrisole
116. Washington Peace Center: Gellston McNeil
117. WILPF-Women's International League for Peace & Freedom: Jane Addams
118. Witness for Peace: George & Lillian Willoughby
119. Women Historians of the Midwest (WHOM): Rhoda Gilman
120. Women Organized Against Rape: Berit Lakey
121. Women's Political Caucus: Kay Camp
122. Women's Political Party: Alice Paul
123. Women's Way: Margaret Hope Bacon & S. Allan Bacon
124. World in Need: (British)
125. Yokefellow Institute: Elton Trueblood
126. Youth Hostels: Jack Catchpool

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