Arlene Kelly and Helene Pollock
For decades, their lives have interwoven with and been enriched by the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC). But Arlene Kelly and Helene Pollock have also given back time, energy, and financial resources to the organization they say has provided them with seminal, unforgettable experiences. Read More
Ann Tickner
Ann Tickner has been an AFSC donor for some 50 years. That steadfast support, she says, is inextricably linked to her Quaker beliefs and the feminist approach to international relations she has spent most of her adult life teaching. Read More
Jack Malinowski
In 2009, Jack Malinowski retired from AFSC after 35 years of service. But even in retirement Jack has maintained close ties to the Service Committee—both as a donor and diligent community activist— because he is passionate about upholding the rights of all people. Read More
Anne Sweazey
"A few years ago, during a terrible international disaster—the tsunami that hit Southeast Asia—I went online to research organizations engaged in relief efforts." Read More
Bruce and Barbara Nordstrom-Loeb
By remembering the American Friends Service Committee in their will, Bruce and Barbara Nordstrom-Loeb express gratitude for AFSC's role in their lives and the world. Read More
Dr. Leon and Hester Petty
Dr. Leon and Hester Petty became interested in Quakerism early in their marriage. Considering their philanthropy later in life, they decided to make a deeper investment in peace and justice, supporting AFSC by creating a charitable gift annuity. Read More
Elizabeth Andrews and Karen Sturnick
Elizabeth Andrews and Karen Sturnick count support of immigrants and youth as their top priorities. Through their estate plan, they've targeted a gift specifically for the benefit of AFSC. Read More
Judith and Dan Coquillette
Dan and Judith Coquillette found a spiritual home with Quakers early in their lives. Initially, they were drawn to the belief in the worth of each person and the religion's focus on addressing social injustices through concrete actions. Read More
Kristin Loken
Kristin Loken's career in the foreign service propelled her worldwide, but her Quaker values always led the way. Read More
Louise and Severyn Bruyn
If you talked to Louise and Severyn Bruyn long enough, you'd hear about protests, acts of civil disobedience, and decades of work centered on economic justice, antiwar activism, and environmental concerns. Read More
Celia Johnston Brown
Celia Johnston Brown supported AFSC for over 40 years. Her sister, Joy Brown Pinson, remembers that Celia’s concern in life was always to be of service to others. Her conviction of the necessity of finding practical responses to poverty, as well as her quest for social justice, led her to choose to leave a lasting legacy by naming AFSC as the primary beneficiary of her will. Read More
Helen and Oliver Wolcott
Helen and Oliver Wolcott met and fell in love while they were undergraduates at Swarthmore College. That’s also where they first crossed paths with American Friends Service Committee and, like their marriage, it’s a relationship that has held strong for more than five decades. Read More
David Blair
David Blair has spent the better part of a lifetime promoting peace an social justice around the world. His motivation is deeply spiritual. Read More
Richard Konrad
Richard Konrad’s gift to AFSC supports peace and justice after providing him with income during his lifetime. Read More
Carol and Russell Tuttle
In 1942, Carol Richie accepted a position in AFSC, where she helped develop projects for conscientious objectors to World War II participating in Civilian Public Service. It was during a visit to one of those project sites in Trenton, North Dakota, that she met her future husband, Russell Tuttle. Read More
Christine Ayoub
Lifelong Quaker Christine Ayoub, 92, has helped found a Quaker community, written a book profiling 37 Quakers, and given generously to Quaker causes—including the American Friends Service Committee. Read More
Alice and Harold Vedova
Alice Vedova, who established a gift annuity with AFSC with her late husband, Harold, is a member of a family that has been invested in the American Friends Service Committee since the very beginning of the organization. Alice’s father, Charles S. Beal, applied to the Service Committee to participate in the Friends Reconstruction Unit in 1918. He was only 18 years old. Read More
Dr. Ruth Lofgren
Dr. Ruth Lofgren was a scientific and environmental pioneer, a philanthropist dedicated to a multitude of causes, and a long-time AFSC supporter who said that the organization’s work for peace with justice spoke to her own core beliefs. Read More
Fran Kellogg
There was never any question that volunteering and donating to causes she believed in would be central to Fran Kellogg’s life. Read More
Betsy Wood
Betsy Wood remembers the day she finished reading John Hersey’s Hiroshima, a novel about the atomic bombing of Japan and the horrific suffering that resulted. The year was 1946, and she was in her freshman year of college. She read the last page, closed the book, and said, “I am a pacifist.” Read More
Diane Evans
Diane's relationship with AFSC began in 1952, when she met a group of volunteers on an ocean liner en route to England. "It was a like a floating hotel for young people," she recalls. She was participating in an Experiment for International Living, and the volunteers were on their way to help rebuild communities still devastated by the destruction of World War II. Their dedication to the worthy effort impressed her. Read More
Peggy and Allan Brick
The Bricks and the AFSC go back a long way! Notably, they helped establish the Middle Atlantic Region Office in Baltimore when Allan served as Peace Secretary. Even when they pursued other peace paths through the Fellowship of Reconciliation, they counted on the Service Committee for information and joint projects. Read More
