Join WES friends and the wider community in an evening of love, support, and resistance. The Resistance Un-Ball is the launch for the social justice efforts that WES will be organizing in the coming years. The Un-Ball is open to WES members and non-members alike and will include: Music & dancing for all ages Potluck food and … Continue reading The Resistance Un-Ball
Second Saturdays Are for Service Outside of WES Volunteering at Wider Circle, January 14, 10 am to Noon followed by lunch. This volunteering opportunity is for anyone – children and adults. RSVPs to Melissa (melissas@ethicalsociety.org) are required by Thursday evening, Jan 12 because Wider Circle needs this information. Park at the school next to AWC warehouse. You will also need to fill a waiver when you … Continue reading Volunteering Opportunity: A Wider Circle
Thanks to the enthusiastic participation of WES members and friends age 55+, we will continue our Aging with Intention discussion series in 2017. In fact, we will increase their frequency from quarterly to bimonthly, to be held on the last Sunday of the month. The first session will be held at WES on Sunday, January … Continue reading Aging with Intention Meeting Planned
This month we will be exploring the theme of Vision. Below is a photo taken of the Martin Luther King Jr. monument in downtown Washington, D.C. taken by our 2016-2017 theme artist Carol Clayton. Plus, if you head over to our new Pinterest page (www.pinterest.com/ethicalsociety), we have pinned the links from the theme packet. We … Continue reading January’s Theme: Vision
Enabling communities to become the architects and managers of their own development For many years, community development focused primarily on charity, transferring funds and technical expertise from the world’s more affluent communities to poorer ones. Although some success has been achieved in this manner, development has now moved beyond direct assistance and charity. The new … Continue reading Community Capacity Building
WES owes the bank…a lot less money! Last week we signed a new $800,000 loan with M&T Bank, a huge improvement over the mortgage we have been chipping away at, which began over $1.7 million. This new, much lower loan (and at a lower rate, too) was negotiated by Peter Kent, and made possible by … Continue reading WES Closes on a Refinanced Mortgage
Using the new WordPress Theme created by the UUA, we are delighted to have launched our new site. We hope you like it! There are some really awesome features to the new website. First, I invite you to check out the responsiveness of the site. No matter what device you are on, whether it is … Continue reading We Have a New Website!
Summer 2016 June 22 – July 3, 2016 by Lola Skolnik and Peggy Goetz Going to El Rodeo involves a bit of time travel. San Salvador, our entry point, is a large city dominated by modern day problems such as air and noise pollution, violence and urban poverty. But as we leave the city behind … Continue reading WES Global Connections Delegation to El Rodeo, El Salvador
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