From time to time the Permanent Board appoints Friends with relevant gifts, skills, and experience to small groups to address a particular task. "Working groups" focus on time-limited processes and recommendations, often related to administration or governance; “resource groups” support local meetings in discernment or engagement with concerns being carried by New England Friends as a whole.
These groups are accountable to the Yearly Meeting, through the Board, for their work on behalf of New England Friends, reporting regularly and as needed.
Links to information and resources regarding the current working and resource groups are found below.
Friends who help us examine our attitudes and behavior
Supporting local meetings in considering a draft letter of apology
Resources for Friends and local meetings to live into Sessions minute 2017-46 and 2019-36, relating to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Exploring support for New England Friends exercising gifts of ministry and eldership to nurture the spiritual life of local Friends meetings
The purpose of the Contributions Criteria Working Group is to establish simple criteria to be used by the Yearly Meeting each year to choose organizations—if any—for financial contributions from NEYM.
Continuing Friends' work to address racism
Friends researching our Yearly Meeting's involvement with boarding schools for indigenous children
