How We Do Things
This page provides visual aids and other resources describing on New England Yearly Meeting approaches our shared work.
Scroll down to find more resources in the downloads section below, including guidelines for written reports to the Permanent Board and the guide to the various Forms of Service we employ in our shared service.
How the various organizational groups of New England Yearly Meeting of Friends relate to each other
Organization and Church Governance Chart
A Guide to four forms of service we use to carry out collaborative work on behalf of the Yearly Meeting
How New England Quakers decide what our funding priorities will be for the annual budget
Envisioning, creating, and coordinating integrated communications on behalf of New England Quakers
File Downloads
A diagram of the process for consultation and discernment to prepare funding priorities to inform the Yearly Meeting's annual budget planning process.
A graphic guide with step-by-step questions for preparing integrated communications on behalf of New England Yearly Meeting of Friends.
Use this to create your report or proposal for corporate discernment
A graphic depiction of the organizational forms currently in use by the Yearly Meeting to support our ministries
A graphic summary of the different kinds of groups currently formed by the Yearly Meeting to accomplish our shared collaborative work, differentiating how they differ in form and function
A graphic showing reporting (supervisory and support) relationships of the roles through which people serve the mission of the Yearly Meeting as staff, working in complimentary partnership with all who share in service together.