Faith Community Leaders- How to Be Involved with VADP, 2016 May 16

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Ways that Faith Community Leaders Can
Support the Work of VADP

Join VADP as an individual supporter

VADP needs your personal involvement and support. Simply share your
contact information and home address so that our database can match
your record with the correct elected officials. You will receive periodic e-
mail updates about our work as well as action alerts during the legislative
session. Twice each year you will get an appeal for donations in the postal
mail.

. Appoint a congregational contact person(s) for VADP

Ask one or two of your community’s leaders involved in social ministry
and/or adult education to sign up with VADP. They can help you to identify
ways that your faith community can educate its members about the death
penalty and get involved in efforts to end it in Virginia.

. Host an educational session on the death penalty in Virginia

VADP can present a powerful adult education session in your
congregation. VADP has speakers who can speak about capital
punishment from their personal experience - including murder victim
family members, the former Virginia executioner, and a death row
exoneree. VADP can reach both the head and heart of your congregation
with educational presentations.

. Identify “unlikely allies” within your congregation

Every faith community has a wide range of members. Certain people have
great moral authority in death penalty discussions because of their
personal experience. Are there any murder victim family members in your
congregation? Are there any former prosecutors, police officers,
corrections officials, or Republican Party leaders willing to speak with
VADP?

. Make a personal donation to VADP

Contributions from individuals like you generate about half of VADP’s
income. Please make a generous personal donation to our work.

. Recommend a congregational donation to VADP

Faith communities contribute a significant and growing portion of VADP’s

income (over 10% in 2015). Consider launching the process by which your
congregation makes donations to nonprofit 501(c)(3) organizations like
VADP. We are happy to meet with community leaders about our work to
educate, organize, and advocate for an end to the death penalty in
Virginia.

. Introduce other faith community leaders to the work of VADP

Word of mouth is the best way for VADP to make new friends. Please
introduce VADP to fellow faith community leaders in your locality.

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