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Dr. Rudolph McKissick, Pastor
Bethel Baptist Institutional Church Jacksonville, Florida

“The Our V.O.T.E. trainings and manual continue the legacy of social justice activism through the African American Church. As we continue to advance God's vision of peace, community, and overcoming racial and economic injustice, it is important that we teach people of faith how to be engaged in the pursuit of their own liberation."

Previous Trainings

Feb. 7-9, 2006
Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference
Jacksonville, FL

Feb. 11, 2006
13th Episcopal District Conference
Bishop Vashti Murphy McKenzie
Nashville, TN

Feb. 26, 2006
Protestant for the Common Good
Chicago, IL

March 28, 2006
NC, DNC
Raleigh, NC

April 20, 2006
Cleveland, OH
+ 58 training participants
+ 18 Churches represented
Partners: Cleveland NAACP,
UCC Justice and Witness Ministries,
Clergy Strategic Alliances,
LCCREducation Fund

May 18, 2006
Detroit, MI

+ 70 training participants
+ 17 Churches represented

Partners: Detroit Branch NAACP,
UCC Justice and Witness Ministries,
Clergy Strategic Alliances,
LCCR Education Fund,
Center for Civic Participation

June 12th and 13th, 2006
2006 Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference
Clergy Legislative Days
Next Generations Leadership Training
June 13th - 15th, 2006

June 22, 2006
Philadelphia
60 Trainees
Partners: Justice and Witness Ministries-UCC,
LCCR Education Fund,
Clergy Strategic Alliances,
Center for Civic Participation,
NAACP

July 28, 2006
Disciples of Christ
National Convocation
19th Biennial Session: “Reclaiming Prophetic Ministry”
Prophetic Witness and Justice Advocacy Panel  
Dearborn, Michigan

September 5, 2006
CSA and Interfaith Alliance
Our V.O.T.E./House of Worship
Guide Training
Cincinnati

September 7, 2006
CSA and Interfaith Alliance
Our V.O.T.E./House of Worship
Guide Training
Akron

September 12, 2006
CSA and Interfaith Alliance
Our V.O.T.E./House of Worship
Guide Training
Pittsburgh

July 13-14th, 2007
Democratic National Committee,
Southern Caucus Meeting
Charlotte, NC

The Interfaith Alliance -
Navigating the Intersection of
Religion and Politics..
.2006 and Beyond

For more information
click here

Rev. Romal J. Tune will be conducting issue training and skills building workshops on behalf of The Interfaith Alliance (TIA).  TIA is making a difference in America by working at the intersection of religion and politics. The election year program, One Nation, Many Faiths, Vote 2006, analyzes and interprets the role that religion plays in an election year.

Day-long workshop and town hall forums:

Our Issue Training and Skills Building Workshop will give you the skills you need to educate, train others and initiate faith based activism around issues of concern to you and your community!

The Election Year Program town hall forum will provide expert perspective analyzing and interpreting the role religion is playing in this election year.

The Interfaith Alliance is committed to providing you with the tools that will enable you to

Facilitate community activism

Challenge religious political extremism

Encourage civic participation

(click on the following dates to register for that workshop)

Thurs., Oct. 5 Las Vegas, NV
at the Hampton Inn Tropicana
4975 S. Dean Martin Drive, Las Vegas
(702) 948-8100

Tues., Oct. 17 Detroit, MI
at the Marriott Detroit Southfield
27033 Northwestern Highway, Southfield
(248) 356-7400

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

For more about our services and clients, please click here

HOW DOES OUR V.O.T.E. TRAINING WORK

Our V.O.T.E. is a faith community based ecumenical and culturally diverse voter engagement program that works with local and national faith-based grassroots organizations as well as houses of worship.

OBJECTIVES

The goals of Our V.O.T.E. are to:

·          Provide a framework for collaboration across various constituencies

·          Engage faith leaders in communities of faith as well as grassroots interfaith issue advocacy organizations in joint efforts to train and educate their constituents

·          Increase the capacity of faith-based organizations to provide training and technical assistance to their constituents.

·          Increase knowledge in the faith-based community regarding local and national issues relevant to the community.

TRAINING DELIVERY

Our V.O.T.E. utilizes a “train-the-trainers” (T3) model to organize trainings with the faith based community. The T3 model will train liaisons from each Organization/Church, who in turn, train their leadership and other faith-based organizations and churches in their network.

Our V.O.T.E. trainings increased the capacity in communities of faith to engage in the work of grassroots organizing, voter registration, and also enhanced their overall understanding of the political process and their role.  Training leads to more effective issue education, voter registration and GOTV efforts as congregations acquire the tools to develop a plan of execution and the ability to implement that plan.

2008 COMMUNITY TARGETS

Upcoming Issue Education and Get Out the Vote Activist Trainings:

Cleveland, OH September 13

Los Angeles, CA September 20

San Diego, CA September 21

Atlanta, GA September 23

Philadelphia, PA September 25

To view our Previous Trainings, please click here

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Read What Others Are Saying About the Our V.O.T.E. Trainings!

Dr. Derrick Harkins, Pastor
Nineteenth Street Baptist Church, Washington, DC
Board Member, World Relief

“The step by step accessibility of the Our V.O.T.E. manual breaks new ground in the realm of grass-roots and community organizing. It is exciting to think of how many groups and individuals will be encouraged in their efforts by this much-needed work.”

"Rev. Tune:
Your seminar on today was a true blessing to me as a pastor.  You helped me to see some missing pieces in my congregation. I believe that God would have His church to minister to the 'whole' person. I plan within the next few days to work on a Justice Ministry within our church. I enlist your prayers as we go forth. Once again, thanks a million!"

Pastor Russell Wilkins
St. John Church of Christ
Washington, NC
Our V.O.T.E. Training - Raleigh, NC