American Friends Service Committee

The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) "carries out service, development, social justice, and peace programs throughout the world. Founded by Quakers in 1917 to provide conscientious objectors with an opportunity to aid civilian war victims, AFSC's work attracts the support and partnership of people of many races, religions, and cultures."


 * Winner of the 1947 Nobel Peace Prize
 * Joseph Gerson - Director of Programs

Directors
Board Officers
 * Presiding clerk: Paul Lacey
 * Assistant clerks: Arlene Kelly, Peter Woodrow
 * Treasurer: James Fletcher
 * General Secretary: Mary Ellen McNish

Board of Directors
 * Magda Ahmed
 * Donna Anderton
 * Carol Bartles
 * Roy Bateman
 * Taylor Brelsford
 * Howard Cell
 * Brenda Chung
 * Susan E. Cozzens
 * Paul Danforth
 * Petra Doan
 * Taylor Eskew
 * James Fletcher
 * Sally Forsythe
 * Benjamin Frisch
 * Conni Gratop Lewis
 * Sally Harrison
 * John Helding
 * Marguerite Helen
 * Arlene Kelly
 * Todd Kummer
 * Paul Lacey
 * Phillip Lord
 * Ronald Mattson
 * Jonah McDonald
 * Don McNemar
 * Mary Ellen McNish
 * Mark Myers
 * Carlie Numi
 * Sara Sue Pennell
 * Trayce Peterson
 * Amhara Powell
 * Carol Reilley Urner
 * Julia Riseman
 * Diana Roose
 * Rob Settlage
 * Monteze Snyder
 * Dick Steele
 * Althea Sumpter
 * Cynthia Richie Terrell
 * Rich Van Dellen
 * Minerva Velez-Glidden
 * Robert Walker
 * Susan Waltz
 * Bill Wilkinson
 * Chris Willard
 * Peter Woodrow

Contact

 * Web: http://www.afsc.org

Articles/Books

 * Michael Cary, "Faith-Based Imitative in the New Deal: Clarence Pickett, the American Friends Service Committee, and the Subsistence Homestead Program" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association 67th Annual National Conference, The Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, IL, . 2009-05-22
 * Chuck Fager, ed., Quaker Service at the Crossroads: American Friends, The American Friends Service Committee, and Peace and Revolution (Kimo Press, 1988).

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 * Clarence Pickett
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 * Anthony J. Nocella II
 * Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons
 * Barbara Adams