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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Our V.O.T.E. is a ecumenical and interracial
voter engagement training program that works with local and national faith-based
grassroots organizations and churches.
Our V.O.T.E. will assemble collective voices
across racial and denominational lines by building on equality and justice,
values central to liberation theology and the prophetic role of the church.
We believe mobilizing the community will lead to more competitive elections
with new candidates and new leadership. This is the only road to permanent
empowerment: through policies and programs that reflect community needs.
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"When they had crossed, Elijah said to Elisha,
Tell me, what can I do for you before I am taken from you? Elisha replied;
let me inherit a double portion of your spirit...The company of the prophets
from Jericho, who were watching, said, 'the spirit of Elijah is resting on
Elisha.'" (2 II Kings 2:9 and 15 NIV)
GOAL:
Prophetic Voices is a speakers' bureau seeking to add value and expand the
circle of religious leaders representing the African American community who
are called upon to address social and political issues that impact our communities.
The presence of African American leaders in conversations and debates around
justice issues has often been limited, absent or represented by a chosen
few. Prophetic Voices identifies institutions that seek to hear and learn
from people of faith engaged in the work of social justice.
RESOURCE BROKERING:
The Prophetic Voices Speakers Bureau works to connect these clergy with local
and national religious advocacy organizations, corporations, organized labor,
community groups and elected officials that have an interest in hearing from
religious leaders working in the African Community to bring about social
justice.
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For more information e-mail info@clergyaction.org or
call Rev. Romal J. Tune at 202-441-7609.
 Download "A Just Minimum Wage: Good for Workers,
Business and Our Future" (PDF)
Makes a powerful economic and ethical case for raising the minimum wage
and moving the United States from a low-road economy to the high road. Busts
myths and offers vital insight into why a higher minimum wage is crucial
for workers, business and economic progress, and a moral imperative for the
very soul of our nation
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Rev. Samuel Nixon, Jr.
Director, SDP
(703) 212-8988
Snixonj@aol.com
The Seminarian Development Program (SDP) is focused on the support and development
seminarians, as developing leaders, through collaborative relationships with
PNBC churches and PNBC supported institutions (seminaries, Black colleges
and universities, businesses, and agencies), in a global arena environment.
An annual seminarian development track is offered as part of the PNBC Annual
Session.
New Initiative to Help Young Men of Color
With Education, Jobs Unveiled by AFL-CIO
The AFL-CIO Nov. 15 announced the launch of a new labor initiative in New Orleans that will focus on creating educational and employment opportunities for young men of color. AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Richard L. Trumka unveiled the initiative, known as Mobilization for Young Men of Color (MYMC), during a press conference held by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies Health Policy Institute to release a report from the Dellums Commission.
The commission, headed by Ron Dellums, the mayor-elect of Oakland, Calif., and a former California congressman, spent 18 months studying the challenges facing young men of color. The report outlines comprehensive policy recommendations addressing issues related to employment, education, family, and juvenile justice. Trumka told the briefing that the AFL-CIO "recognizes the lack of economic opportunity for the young men documented by the Dellums Commission. The labor movement is committed to taking decisive action to improve the environment for them."
The pilot program will take place in New Orleans and will focus on workforce training, continuing education through internet-assisted distance learning, mentoring programs, and overall community development, Trumka said. "It is our hope that the pilot program may provide the framework for significant gains to communities of color, to the American labor movement, and to society in general," he added.
The program will involve the joint center, the Dellums Commission, and numerous entities of the AFL-CIO, including the Building and Construction Trades Department, the Housing Investment Trust, the Investment Trust Corporation, the National Labor College, and the Working for America Institute. While the first phase of the program in New Orleans will concentrate on construction work, the program will later expand to provide training for other jobs, including motor vehicle drivers and service workers.
Among the goals of the pilot program, according to written materials, are providing opportunities for young men of color to enter construction careers, build relationships between the labor movement and minority communities, demonstrate the "efficacy of high-road economics in urban America," increase union membership, and establish a viable unionized contractor base in communities of color.
Components of Program
According to the AFL-CIO, components of the program include:
Job training. The building trades unions of the AFL-CIO currently are expanding a model workforce training program in New Orleans that includes skills training and a placement program to provide local residents with skills to secure construction work. Those individuals interested in pursuing careers in construction will receive assistance in applying for specific apprenticeships.
Workforce training and community centers. The MYMC plans to open an "anchor" facility in New Orleans that will serve as a community center as well as a workforce training center designed to "motivate young people, increase life skills, improve health services, and provide hope and real opportunities for solid employment." In addition, the music and arts community will be asked to offer instruction to the city's young residents.
Distance learning. Because there is a high dropout rate at the high school level among young African American and Latino males, the National Labor College will identify appropriate web-based learning modules and establish a distance learning satellite center to allow students to pursue certificates and/or degrees in a number of areas. Among the classes that could be offered are computer literacy, math for banking, customer service, personal communications, and sales techniques.
Counseling and assistance in getting a job. The federation plans to use its Working for America Institute, a union-sponsored, nonprofit organization dedicated to creating good jobs, to offer direct support to workers through counseling, training, and placement in "family-sustaining" jobs. WAI resources will be used to assist job seekers who have completed training or schooling through one of these programs, or skilled workers displaced from jobs because of layoffs or a natural disaster.
Mentoring. A program based on one created by former Washington Redskin Brig Owens will engage retired athletes and business leaders to serve as mentors to youth in the community. Initially, the MYMC will identify union resources as well as public, private, and foundation funding to open the first center in New Orleans. In addition, it will seek corporate, community, and private foundation grant support for these efforts.
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