Regional, National, and International Quaker Organizations and Resources

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 The Ben Lomond Quaker Center is a nonprofit retreat and event center located in the redwood forests of the Santa Cruz Mountains. For 76 years Quaker Center has offered Quaker programs, camps and events, open to all, and offered conference and event space to a variety of groups and organizations working towards a better world. Retreats typically focus on spirituality, Quaker faith, history and practice, peace and social justice.  Check out their website for upcoming Quaker programs.

FCNL is a national, nonpartisan Quaker organization that lobbies Congress for peace, justice, and environmental stewardship. They bring together tens of thousands of people—Quakers and friends—who share a belief in the power of relationship-building to advance the world we seek. 

QEW is a network of Friends in North America working on Earthcare concerns, inspiring Spirit-led action toward ecological sustainability and environmental justice. QEW's work advances a leading among Friends that our future depends on a spiritual transformation in our relationships with each other and the natural world. 

Pacific Yearly Meeting is a regional organization consisting of local Friends Meetings in 3 US states (California, Hawaii, Nevada), and Mexico City.  The California and Nevada Meetings are divided into College Park Quarterly Meeting (Northern California plus Reno, NV) and Southern California Quarterly Meeting (includes Las Vegas, NV).

CPQM is a quarterly meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in northern California and Nevada. The main purposes of the CPQM are to strengthen the life and fellowship of Monthly Meetings in the northern portions of California and Nevada, to offer opportunities for worshiping together, and to consider spiritual and worldly matters of local or broader concern.​

FCLCA is a nonpartisan, statewide public interest lobby founded Quakers. Our supporters include people of all backgrounds and beliefs who share our values and concerns.  
FCLCA advocates with the California legislature for state laws and a state budget that are just, compassionate and respectful of the inherent worth of every person.

AFSC works for a just, peaceful, and sustainable world free of violence, inequality, and oppression.  Guided by the Quaker belief in the divine light of each person, AFSC works with people of all faiths and backgrounds to challenge unjust systems and promote lasting peace. 

Quaker.org is an online site for people worldwide to access reliable basic information about the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) and to explore resources that could help them find a spiritual path and community. Quaker.org is a project of Friends Publishing Corporation, an independent Quaker nonprofit organization that publishes Friends Journal and the QuakerSpeak series on YouTube.  Friends Publishing Corporation's mission is to communicate Quaker experience in order to connect and deepen spiritual lives. 

Answering God’s call to universal love, FWCC brings Friends of varying traditions and cultural experiences together in worship, consultation and communications to express their common heritage and our Quaker message to the world. In the Americas, the Quaker community extends from the Arctic to the Andes, spanning a rich diversity of regional cultures, beliefs, and styles of worship. The organization envisions a  thriving and integrated regional network of Friends, woven together in transformative faith, learning to love, listen, and witness.