General Resources
Interfaith Power & Light’s “Faith Climate Justice Voter” website
- IPL blog post on the importance of voting
- Register to vote
- When We All Vote: this is the nonpartisan get out the vote organization IPL is partnering with
- Check your voter registration
- FaithClimateJusticeVoter.org– Expanded website that’s a one stop shop for the voter campaign.
- Shopify link to order hard copies of voter reflection guides- https://bit.ly/ordervoterguide. Note there is a cost to order them to help cover the printing and shipping costs, you’ll see that reflected at the order link.
- Center for Common Ground – has a successful postcarding campaign. Read more on how Ecofaith is working on this initiative here.
- Voter guide slide deck– At the request of a couple of IPL supporters, I’ve created a slide deck to assist in congregation voter guide discussions.
- EMO will have a voter’s guide for Oregon ballot measures that we can add when it’s ready
- Vote Tripling strategy with a 3-tiered approach:
- A) will you pledge to vote?
- B) will you pledge to remind 3 friends to vote?
- C) will you invite 10 of your friends to remind 3 of their friends to vote?
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A house of worship’s role in an election: https://bolderadvocacy.org/wp-
Congregational efforts to vote: https://democracync.org/wp-
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Denominational Resources on Engaging Your Faith Community is Public Action (in this case, Voting):
Catholic Communities: http://usccb.org/issues-and-
Presbyterian Church: https://www.
United Methodist: https://www.
UCC Toolkit: https://www.ucc.org/ourfaithourvote_our-faith-our-vote-downloads
US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB): http://www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/faithful-citizenship/forming-consciences-for-faithful-citizenship-introductory-letter.cfm
Youtube links: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL18AF7577177E12D9
Care for Creation: http://www.usccb.org/beliefs-and-teachings/what-we-believe/catholic-social-teaching/care-for-creation.cfm
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