Brooklyn Friends School has a long-standing commitment to community service as an integral element of our preschool through grade 12 curriculum. As an outgrowth of that commitment, we incorporate four days of community service in the academic calendar for group projects. In addition, each Upper School student is expected to complete approximately 150 hours of community service. Many of our graduates continue to pursue community service in their adult lives.
Middle school teacher Ticia Vreeland (left) and middle school head Joan Rappaport (right) at the annual blood drive. In the background is science department chair and teacher Janet Villas.
BFS has partnered with the following organizations as part of its community service program. For greater detail about the program, please visit the sidebar links to the left of this page.
AIDS Walk
Brooklyn Heights Synagogue
Brooklyn Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends
Brooklyn/Staten Island Blood Center
CHIPS
City Harvest
City Meals on Wheels
Cobble Hill Health Center
Common Cents
Dryades Charter School in New Orleans
Habitat for Humanity
Helen Keller Services for the Blind
Kisangura Friends Primary School in Tanzania
Mercy First Foster Care Center
New York Quarterly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends
Partnership for Parks NYC
Philabundance in Philadelphia, PA
Project Cicero
Public School 307 and Public School 287
Share the Care
St. Bernard Project (St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana)
St. Charles Jubilee Center
St. Johns Place Family Center
Triple Negative Breast Cancer Foundation
UNICEF
Water First International
Youth Services Opportunity Program (YSOP)
DID YOU KNOW? In 2006, Brooklyn Friends School received the Council for Spiritual and Ethical Education's Community Service Recognition Award (Honorable Mention) for "Service Learning Leadership: Pairing Our Classrooms with Our Communities"