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“The Morality of Raising the Minimum Wage”

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy is joined by Sen. Sherrod Brown and Sen. Tom Harkin, as well as religious leaders Rev. Jim Wallis, Rev. Bob Edgar, Rabbi David Saperstein, and Rev. Romal Tune 

Rev. Tune and Dr. E.J. Dionne

Rev. Jim Wallis presents Rev. Romal Tune with the Amos Award at the 2007 Pentecost Conference in Washington, DC.

Rev. Tune addresses College Democrats of America National Convention

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Reverend Romal J. Tune addresses the National Conference for Media Reform in Minneapolis, June 7, 2008.

Clergy Strategic Alliance Services:

Public Relations: Using communications to ensure your message targets and reaches your core audience.   

Strategy: Identifying the most effective ways to meet your goals and achieve deliverables. 

Training and workshops: Community organizing, political organizing, voter registration, issue education, and voter turnout.

Messaging:  Crafting messages for your organization that resonate with a target audience in the religious community

Marketing and Image Development:  Ensuring that community knows our clients and is aware of the services they provide

Coalition Building:  Creating strategic relationships with religious leaders that maintain the integrity of our clients and the religious community in order to achieve common goals

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At CSA we work to foster strategic collaborations for programs or initiatives that will lead to more empowered communities.   Because of our strong relationships in the religious community we are able to build strategic alliances between foundations, labor organizations, and non profit corporations, to work with the faith community in a way that allows every institution to maintain the integrity of its mission and achieve its goals. 

Organizations and networks within the faith community need to develop politically sophisticated strategies for their community empowerment initiatives while staying true to their core missions, values, and principles.  CSA understands the relationships between these various entities, because our leadership and management team has years of extensive experience working in and working with such organizations.  Because our leadership is made up of ordained clergy from African American denominations and seminary trained, we are uniquely prepared for initiatives working with African American churches as well as the interfaith community.

The following is a list of services that CSA offers to clients:

• Resource Brokering - Identifying the strength of an organization and informing the religious community of its concerns as well as what it has to offer the community
• Project Development & Project Management - Creating innovative projects to enhance the image of clients with the religious community
• Strategic Communications - Developing messages using existing documents and creating new documents that convey the mission or program in ways that resonate with people of faith
• Issue Education Trainings - Organizing trainings with a diverse group of faith communities, denominations, and cultures that equip them with the skills necessary to educate and articulate messages to others in their community
• Workshops, Seminars, and Curriculum Development and Delivery
• Strategic Planning and Assessment Consulting - Building sustainability and long-term infrastructure
• Using our Prophetic Voices Speakers Bureau we are able to secure religious leaders for events

Through our hard earned reputation for consistently delivering quality programs and services with integrity and accountability, CSA has achieved a level of respect and credibility within the faith community.  Our clients include clergy networks, ministerial associations, faith coalitions, community coalitions, non profit corporations, and individual congregations.

Services have been provided to the following:

Rev. Romal J Tune's Biography

In today’s society, some individuals never recover from the unexplainable tragic events in life. For Reverend Romal J. Tune the tragic death of his seven week-old cousin, killed by a stray bullet in a random drive-by shooting, served as the impetus for his committed and passionate work, to help people of faith address the critical social and cultural issues facing their communities.

His journey spans from the streets of Northern CA to the U.S. Army to Magna Cum Laude at Howard University and Duke University School of Divinity, to the pulpits of leading congregations around the country and currently as president & CEO of Clergy Strategic Alliances, LLC.

Working with, Members of Congress, pastors and church members across the country Rev. Tune teaches and trains them to change their communities through political activism and engagement via voter registration, issue education, building justice ministries and effective national and local coalitions.

Rev. Tune for the past decade, beginning his ministry of community and social justice activism as a student at Duke University School of Divinity, has established himself as a leader, facilitator, minister, trainer and social justice advocate.

Growing up in neighborhoods plagued with crime, drug dealers and gang members, he found refuge serving in the United States Army from 1989-1992 during the Gulf War, Desert Storm, he has worked as a student and today as a CEO to train and equip churches, working directly with local gang task forces to reclaim youth involved with gangs. Rev. Tune believes that through faith, support from family, friends and community, all of us can succeed when given the opportunity.

Rev. Tune connects and closes the ever-widening divide between religion, politics and community in the public square around the nation, cultivating a diverse network of political, community and clergy alliances, which span various fields of community organizing. He is doing “the most impressive social and civic justice work of this century…to empower communities by involving them in civic and social justice work around the country,” according to Minyon Moore, principal of Dewey square group and former Clinton White House political director.

In addition to receiving numerous awards and recognitions for his work, Rev. Tune is a sought-after speaker for political institutions, national grassroots organizations, corporations, organized labor and religious conferences, including the Congressional Black Caucus, Faith and Politics Institute, Sojourners/Call to Renewal, The Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference, Democratic National Committee, and The Interfaith Alliance. 

Ordained to ministry at Metropolitan Baptist Church in Washington, D.C. and currently an Associate Minister at Nineteenth Street Baptist Church, where Dr. Derrick Harkins is pastor, the father of two resides in the Washington, DC area.

Danielle Ayers
Deputy Regional Director
Clergy Strategic Alliances, LLC

Danielle Ayers is an experienced and accomplished social justice advocate.  She currently serves as the Capital Stewardship Director of Friendship West Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas, a 9,000-member house of worship, whose goal is to transform lives and give shape and form to the community.  Among her many responsibilities, Ayers is charged with helping Friendship West, pastored by the Rev. Dr. Frederick D. Haynes III, raise the nearly $100 million needed to complete the church’s multi-phased holistic ministry—20/20 Vision Project. 

Konyia L. Clark
Training Coordinator and Event Marketing Specialist

Konyia Clark, a native of Chicago, Illinois, has established herself over the past fifteen years as an event specialist and community liaison with a unique flare for production and coordination.  Her interest became apparent while working in local government on various political campaigns as she planned several fundraisers and community activities.  Before exiting the political arena in 1992, Clark was responsible for the initialization of the community outreach program which services tax payers in Cook County; “As a governmental entity whose primary purpose is to provide service and relief to tax payers in this county, I feel it is essential that we go out into the community and provide this service rather than wait for the community to find out about us accidentally or as a last resort.  We can provide a better service to those in need by enabling them to be proactive rather than reactive.”  The program is still in place to date. 

In 1998 Clark re-entered the corporate area and worked as a Community Event Coordinator for Humana Healthcare.  She was responsible for the inception of the Cooperative Sales & Marketing/Event’s department that serviced the Medicare and Medicaid populations.  After working at United Healthcare for two years, Ms. Clark joined her family’s business “Clark Catering full time and is now a partner in the business.  After only three months she started her own event planning and marketing company, Arrei Event Planners LLC.  To date, Ms. Clark has worked in an array of industries expressing her creativity.  She her expertise has garnered her national recognition ranging from religious and grass roots organizations to fortune 100 companies. 

Rhoda McKinney-Jones
Director of Communications

Rhoda McKinney-Jones has more than 20 years of diverse experience in the fields of journalism and media relations. She currently serves as media relations liaison for the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference, Inc., a non-denominational and ecumenical social justice organization, where her duties include handling national press for the Hurricane Katrina hearings. Additionally, she serves as director of communications for the Clergy Strategic Alliances, LLC in Washington, D.C., which does civic and social justice work throughout the country, and as a communications consultant to American Baptist Churches USA, Office of Black Church Ministries, in Valley Forge, PA. She does freelance publicity work for a number of noted African-American pastors and theologians. A talented feature writer, McKinney-Jones is also a regular contributor to Trumpet Magazine, published by Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago.

McKinney-Jones’s impressive journalism career includes posts as: an adjunct professor in journalism and media relations, Eastern University in St. Davids, PA; an assistant editor at Ebony Magazine; reporter for the Chicago Tribune and San Diego Union-Tribune; feature writer and reporter for the Seattle Post – Intelligencer and a national correspondent for the National Newspaper Publishers Association, where she wrote for some 135 African-American newspapers throughout the nation.

Drawing on her penchant for public policy and social justice issues, McKinney-Jones worked also as a legislative aide to U.S. Sen. Brock Adams, D-WA for the Labor and Human Resources Committee, where she was assigned to the Health Staff Subcommittee chaired by U.S. Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-MA and was responsible for tracking legislation on children, families and substance abuse and writing briefs for hearings.

A third generation graduate of Spelman College in Atlanta, GA, McKinney-Jones holds Bachelor of Arts degree in English with a concentration in philosophy and political science, and a Masters of Science from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.  McKinney-Jones is an avid volunteer and a dedicated wife and mother.  She has served on numerous boards and is in a number of social and professional organizations. McKinney-Jones resides in the Philadelphia-area with her husband, Sam H. Jones, Jr., and their six-year-old son Kent.

Go Home.

“Rev. Romal Tune and the Clergy Strategic Alliances are doing the most impressive social and civic justice work of this century. This organization has proactively begun to train and prepare pastors, congregants, and grassroots organizations to empower communities by involving them in civic and social justice work around the country. I encourage every civic minded Pastor, individual and organization to support the work of Clergy Strategic Alliances. It is my firm belief that through their work we are preparing another generation of civic minded activist to continue the legacy and ministry of the late Dr. Martin Luther King and so many others.”

Minyon Moore,
Principal DeweySquare Group
Former, Political Director, President Bill Clinton

Clergy Strategic Alliances (CSA) is taking religious and social justice outreach to a new level. We have worked with Rev. Romal Tune and CSA to plan a health care advocacy training for faith leaders, as well as to moderate a workshop during our national gathering of health care advocates from across the country. CSA has helped increase our nationwide network of faith leaders who are working on health care justice, and it has advised us on innovative ways to reach this important group. We look forward to continuing our relationship with Clergy Strategic Alliances in the future."

 Ron Pollack
Executive Director, Families USA

Rev. Tune and Dr. Stephen Thurston, President, National Baptist Convention of America

“Clergy Strategic Alliances (CSA) has taken the next step in building strategic relationships between the faith community and organized labor.   In our efforts to improve public schools and strengthen the outreach of our Union, we are working with Rev. Romal Tune and CSA to formalize our current work with people of faith from diverse religious backgrounds.  Rev. Tune’s depth of knowledge about the religious community and its diversity of perspectives is truly an asset to us at the American Federation Teachers.  CSA is helping to increase our nationwide network of faith leaders working to provide quality public education to our children and the necessary resources to our union members.  Our relationship with Rev. Tune and CSA is one that has enhanced our work and will continue to grow."

Foster Stringer, Director, Human Rights and Community Relations - American Federation of Teachers