To prepare for discerning what charities we want to donate to as a Meeting, we need to delve into what organizations are doing, and how they align with our Quaker values. To that end the Co-clerks ask you if you would volunteer to be a liaison with a specific charity to look into their recent work and be able to report in a minute or two to the Meeting when we gather to discern who Spirit is leading us to support for the coming year. We will have an Ad Hoc Finance Meeting on February 27th to take up this topic. Here is an incomplete list of organizations we will consider:

• American Friends Service Committee

• Friends Committee on National Legislation

• Jericho Road Community Center

• Congo for Christ Center

• AVP New York

• Friends Center for Racial Justice

• Bolivian Quaker Education Fund

• Asia Pacific Friends Peace Teams

• Network of Religious Communities

• Western New York Peace Center

• Housing Opportunities Made Equal (H.O.M.E.)

• Quaker Religious Education Collaborative

• VOICE Buffalo

• Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ)

• Peruvian Outreach Project

We need one person for each organization to serve as liaison to familiarize him/her/themself with the recent works of an organization. Please email Mike Tritto at michaeltrittojr@gmail.com to volunteer to represent a specific charity by February 20.