What Happened
April 10, 2024
Questions have been raised within AFSC about its track record on finances. A short presentation of answers to some of those questions appears at this link, with a focus on the time when I was Treasurer.
Tag: AFSC
Lessons Learned from 2009 Financial Crisis
April 3, 2024
The AFSC Treasurer and a veteran member of the Finance Committee wrote the analysis linked here of the internal and external factors that were in the background of the drastic AFSC downsizing in Fiscal 2010.
AFSC Audit Guide
July 31, 2023
My last two months as Treasurer of the American Friends Service Committee were spent putting together a plain-English guide for reading the AFSC audit. I was joined in the project by AFSC’s Chief Financial Officer, Joe Njoroge, and the incoming Treasurer, David Singleton. It’s not easy to compare the numbers in the audit to the … More AFSC Audit Guide
To the AFSC Board Working Group on Program Decision Making
April 13, 2021
13 April 2022 In the discussion around AFSC restructuring, your group reports hearing few alternatives to the structural proposals made in spring 2021 for “governance.” Since my open letter in January did that, I am writing to make sure you have seen that letter and to stress the connection to issues that are still under … More To the AFSC Board Working Group on Program Decision Making
To My Friends in AFSC
January 7, 2021
January 7, 2021 To My Friends in AFSC and Other Friends of AFSC, I thank the Friends who have called attention to the perilous crossroad AFSC faces in their letter to Western Friend. I share their deep sense of danger. What I write here grows out of my daily prayers that AFSC leadership will listen … More To My Friends in AFSC
Finding My Place 