• We have expanded our community partnerships, most significantly with Capitol Hill Village, an "aging-in-place" organization.  This partnership has helped us to deepen our connections within our local community. 
• Greg and Brad have reached out to Quaker schools and meetings throughout the northeast, mid-Atlantic, and into the Midwest to lay the foundation for future workcamps.
• Increasingly, we have expanded the scope of our work to include more education aspects to the programs.  Examples include facilitating education seminars in schools on the topics of poverty/homelessness, and HIV/AIDS.
• This month we held the first of what we plan to be many interscholastic workcamps.  Students from Olney Friends and Thornton Friends spent time doing service projects and group reflections, connect service to the theme of preventing war and the direct and indirect consequence of the violence of poverty and prejudice.  During this Workcamp, we explored the common threads of Quakerism in education and service at these two very different schools.  The feedback we receive will be instrumental in helping us to make future programs even better. 
• In addition to the specific programs, we have also greatly increased our presence on the internet.  As you know if you are reading this, we have this e-newsletter.  We also have a blog now, and most of the staff and interns are active in social networking sites such as facebook to stay engaged and nurture a Friendly presence in the cyber-world that is transforming the way youth and young adults connect to and see the world.  There are also some activist networking sites such as gather and care2 where we are developing a presence.
• We did all this while continuing the annual trips to West Virginia and New Orleans.  We also added the Eco-workcamp last summer.  This year, we will continue these and look to expand the offerings of workcamps throughout the year.
• Although not directly under the rubric of WQW, many of our other programs (Teachers of Peace and Appreciative Inquiry workshops to name two) share the focus of ways intergenerational work can move all of us to a more peace, just world. 

One of the things we are constant and vigilant about in WQW work is how to insure that the experiences people have can be translated into activities in their own community, and how participants can recognize not only the importance to reach out to those in need and to environmental crises, but also to recognize the conditions that lead to these situations and what we can do to prevent them.  This is perhaps the hardest part of our work, as the gratification of prevention is not as immediate as is helping those in dire conditions.  Using the environment as an example, hand-pulling invasive plants one root at a time is monotonous, and may seem pointless, but environmentalists say it is vital to saving our watersheds and all the habitats that rely on them - including humans.  For WQW, our response is to include education about the importance and rationale for doing this work, and looking at ways we can change mindsets so people truly appreciate the power of prevention - the foundation of establishing a more peaceful world.