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SISTERS OF BON SECOURS, USA ‘e
Sisters of Bon Secours Ministry Grant Fund
1525 Marriottsville Road
Marriottsville, MD 21104
Accountability Report for the VADP Grassroots Education Project
Due S lly on: September 22, 2018
Grantee: Virginians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (VADP)
Title: Michael Stone, Executive Director
Address: P.O. Box 12222
City, State, Zip: Richmond, VA 23241
Please give a brief explanation of how the goal(s) and objective(s) for the project, as
described in the proposal, were achieved.
Thanks to the second-year grant of $15,000 from the Bon Secours Sisters, VADP has been able
to continue employment of Dale Brumfield, our full-time Field Director. He has continued to
meet local civic, business, and religious leaders in eight target legislative districts.
The Field Director has spent at least one week in each of the following Virginia areas —
Martinsville, Danville and Chatham, Floyd and Galax, Elkton and Shenandoah, Winchester,
Lynchburg, and southwestern Virginia. These communities are located in less populated and
more rural areas of the state, mostly on the southside and the west.
These districts were chosen because their legislators hold key positions in either the House or
Senate Courts of Justice Committees which will consider legislation to ban the execution of
people with severe mental illness and/or end execution drug secrecy.
Over the past six months, the Field Director has spoken about the death penalty to a wide range
of audiences, mostly within the eight target legislative districts — including:
** Three Chopt Rotary near Zion Crossroads, VA
“* Chatham Rotary in Chatham, VA
“* Smith Mt. Lake Rotary, near Moneta, VA
“* Capital punishment forum at the Barter Theater in Abingdon, VA
“* Monticello Republican Women’s Club in Springfield, VA
“* St. Michael’s Parish Knights of Columbus in suburban Richmond, VA
“* Rockingham Libertarians in Harrisonburg, VA
The Field Director staffed an exhibit table at the June 2018 annual convention of the Virginia
Federation of Republican Women’s Clubs. He met many conservatives from the state and was
invited to speak at five local Republican women’s clubs.
The Field Director also staffed an exhibit table at the Young Americans for Liberty conference
in northern Virginia. He met many Libertarian leaders and was invited to speak about the death
penalty to a number of local groups around the state.
2. How have you achieved your measurements?
The Field Director maintains a Google spreadsheet of all contacts in each of the eight target
legislative districts. In addition, he submits a weekly report on his meetings and activities. The
Executive Director also meets with him every other week to delve into the contacts made and to
plan follow-up actions for each target legislative district.
What impact did you have?
In the past six months the Field Director has met at least fifty local leaders across the
Commonwealth who are involved in the faith community, social services, business, media, and
politics. Thirty-five of these local conservative activists have become VADP members.
We anticipate that many of these local leaders will assist VADP with (1) organizing public
education events on SMI and the death penalty and/or (2) meeting with the local Delegate or
Senator to seek their support for the SMI bill.
3. What changes, barriers, or modifications, if any, to the original project were made as it
progressed? If there were barriers, what barriers were there, and how did you overcome
them?
We have identified no major barriers to the original project. Our biggest challenge is getting
meetings scheduled with key people in the target legislative districts.
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Give a detailed explanation of use of funds. List cost elements of the project and expenses
for each (salaries and benefits, supplies, printing, etc.).
All of the funds from the Bon Secours Sisters Mission Fund are used to pay the salary of the
VADP Field Director.
Do you expect to expend the full amount of the award?
We do anticipate spending the entire $15,000 award by the end of the grant year.
5. What are the future goals and objectives for this project (e.g., further program
dovel & obtaini inable funding, etc.)?
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For the second six months of the grant year, the Field Director will continue to meet with local
faith, business, political and media leaders in our eight target legislative districts.
The VADP Field Director anticipates speaking at least eight public education sessions on the
death penalty in target legislative districts. Confirmed audiences for these sessions include:
“ Clifton Republican Women’s Club
** Fredericksburg/Spotsylvania Republican Women’s Club
“+ Patrick Henry Libertarians in Richmond
“* Chesterfield County Libertarians
“* Botetourt County Libertarians
“* Roanoke Valley Libertarians
“* Page County Libertarians
** Osher Lifelong Learning Institute death penalty classes at the University of Virginia
We will prepare and place op-eds urging repeal of current Virginia law that keeps the source of
execution drugs secret from the public. We hope to publish at least two op-eds in major
Virginia newspapers like The Washington Post, Richmond Times- Dispatch, Virginian Pilot,
and Roanoke Times. We expect to have these op-eds published by the end of this grant year.
We also plan to have at least 5 community leaders in each of the eight target legislative district
meet with their legislator after the November election and before the start of the 2019 General
Assembly to discuss the issue of severe mental illness exclusion bill and repeal of the execution
drug secrecy law.
6. Please sign, date and return to:
Carol Jessee
Congregation Office
Sisters of Bon Secours USA
1525 Marriottsville Road
Marriottsville, MD 21104
Signed:
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Michael E. Stone, VADP Executive Director Date
