As people of faith we pursue God’s vision, not only for ourselves but for our entire community. When we recognize our God-given interconnectedness we realize we must become advocates for each other for the well-being of the whole community.
Are you looking for ways to be engaged in advocacy? Below are a listing of education and advocacy opportunities for youth groups, social ministry groups, religious leaders, and individuals.
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Day on the Hill
Ending Genocide in Darfur
Ending Poverty in Minnesota
Ending Sexual Misconduct in the Religious Community
Ending Torture
Healthy Homes, Congregations, and Communities
iCAN Key Advocacy Program
Personal advocates for refugees and asylees
Promoting interfaith understanding and cooperation
The largest interfaith lobbying day in Minnesota. Sponsored by the Joint Religious Legislative Coalition.
The Minnesota Interfaith Darfur Coalition supportd political and humanitarian solutions that will lead to an end to the genocide. Become engaged, learn about the situation in Darfur, and advocate for change.
Join your voice to thousands of others to end poverty. Sign A Common Foundation: Shared Principles for Work on Overcoming Poverty. Get involved with one of A Minnesota Without Poverty’s working groups.
The Victim Advocates trained by the Ending Sexual Misconduct in the Religious Community program help bring healing and justice. Learn more about victim advocates trainings.
Urge Senator Coleman to support an amendment to the Defense Authorization Bill that will assure that the international Committee of the Red Cross has access to all detainees held by the U.S. government. Learn more.
Healthy Homes, Healthy Congregations empowers individuals and congregations to make justice-filled choices that minimize exposure to toxic chemicals. Toxic pollutants and chemicals disproportionately threaten the health of low-income communities and communities of color.
Every Minnesota congregation needs a Key Advocate
If you care about children and take the teachings of your faith tradition seriously, you're ready to be a Key Advocate.iCAN has over 400Key Advocates building awareness of children's needs and leading Minnesota faith communities in doing social justice advocacy at the legislative level.
Key Advocates:
- receiveinitial training in grassroots political advocacy;
- receive regular updates about issues that impact Minnesota childrenthroughiCANS's newsletters and Wednesdays4Kids e-mail alerts, and other sources;
- contact their elected officials through phone calls, e-mails, letters, and one-on-one visits, to tell them to support policies that improve children's lives and oppose policies that hurt children;
- speak out for children suffering neglect, poverty, or abuse, through pulpit announcements during worship services, or through their congregation's worship bulletins or newsletters;
- share iCAN information and resources and guide other members of their congregations in doing legislative advocacy;
- share and keep the concerns of children before the congregation's leaders and decision-makers, through events like the Children's Sabbath and the Blue Ribbon Campaign/National Child Abuse Prevention Month;
- model compassion for all children to their congregations and communities;
- work to create a child- and family-supportive atmosphere in their congregations and communities;
- pray for children everywhere.
When you sign up to be a Key Advocate, you will receive iCAN's Key Advocate's Resource Manual. Questions about the Key Advocate's program? Contact iCAN Organizer Laurie Beckman Yetzer for more information at 612-230-3232, or e-mail her at laurie@icanmn.org.
Minnesota’s newest arrivals need allies and advocates to help them establish new lives of freedom, hope and opportunity. Opportunities include:
Interested in moving beyond differences? Taking Heart brings people together to build relationships, and to facilitate partnerships between Christians and Muslims, including being allies to each other in times of need.
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