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

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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 

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Despite the hard-fought gains for equality and the inalienable rights ascribed to all Americans,  the 21st Century Church in the African American Community still suffers the obvious signs of social disarray and disenfranchisement.  The rights we gained through struggle and martyr merit a stronger commitment to social justice and the plight of the disadvantaged.   Our V.O.T.E., by Reverend Romal Tune, provides the “track and uniform” for the race against negative trends and diminishing social capital.  Once again, the Body of Christ can demonstrate her relevance in communities who need the Church to stand for social justice more than they may even know!   

Bishop Charles E. Blake, Sr., Presiding Bishop, Church of God in Christ, Inc

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. 

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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FTE Calling Congregations Grants

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Cultures of Call: Grants for Congregations

Through its grants to congregations, FTE provides financial support for activities and reflection designed to help congregations nurture the principles and practices that support vocational discernment, in general, and the call to ministry, in particular, among youth and young adults. We also invite potential grantees into a community of reflection that extends beyond their congregations and is enriched by the wisdom and experience of other applicants and previous grantees.

Awards

Grants are made in amounts ranging from $10,000 to $15,000 and are dependent upon the quality and quantity of requests submitted during the application period. Grantees should expend their funds during the eighteen months following the award. Grants are intended to support the culture of call within congregations and are made primarily to congregations. However, grants may include support for activities that foster partnerships with other organizations (e.g., campus ministries, seminaries, camps, denominational bodies and other congregations). Church-related organizations are also eligible to apply when the proposed activity is focused principally on the capacity of one or more congregations to nurture vocation and the call to ministry among young people.

Eligibility

Grants are intended primarily to support new initiatives or to add new capacity to existing programming.

Grants support projects that:

* Focus on youth and young adults in a specific, local context, without isolating them from the rest of the community.
* Foster new efforts to explore vocation and the call to ministry, with the aim of expanding the community's capacities beyond the period of the grant.
* Offer engagement over a significant period of time, rather than focusing on a single event.
* Involve participants—project planners, leaders and young people—in consistent theological reflection as well as activity.

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“The National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference, America's largest Hispanic faith organization, is proud to partner with one of America's Preeminent Christian Leaders and advocate for Social Justice, Rev. Romal Tune. Romal leads the way articulating a message of societal transformation and Kingdom engagement with a commitment to excellence second to none. We believe this partnership will transform the relationship between Brown and Black and in the end; God's name will be glorified as we tackle the ills in our communities together.” 

Rev. Sam Rodriguez, President NHCLC

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. Romal Tune, through the Our V.O.T.E. manual, has crafted a balanced and effective approach to faith and political involvement. It is at once true to the biblical calling of Christian leadership and true to the ideals of democracy.

Without the kind of training and guidance Rev. Tune offers, good intentions often translate into uncoordinated and ineffective action. But guided by the Our VOTE manual, the dreams and hopes of social justice can lead to on-the-ground action that in turn can bring change to a world that is in need.”

- Brian McLaren
Author, Speaker