Editing Friends General Conference (section)

==History==

FGC's history can be traced back to conferences held by several Quaker organizations between 1868 and 1900, including the First Day School Conference, the Friends Union for Philanthropic Labor, the Friends Religious Conference, the Friends Educational Conference, and the Young Friends Association. These groups officially joined together as Friends General Conference at Chautauqua, New York, in August 1900.<ref name="AboutFGC"></ref>

FGC has held a conference either every year or every other year, usually at a different college each time, simply called Friends General Conference (FGC). In the late 1970s in order to make a distinction between FGC as an organization and the annual conference, the conference began to be called the Gathering. In recent years, the Gathering has been held several times on the west coast rather than the East or Midwest.