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During the last KY state legislative session, concerned
citizens like you sent over 680 letters to your leaders in
response to our action alerts. This doesn't count the numbers
of phone calls that might have been made as well.
You helped achieve success on such issues as the
primary seat belt law and children's protective measures
like as the graduated license and ATV requirements.
Your voices again helped defeat the legislation to expand gambling
to include legalized casinos throughout
the Commonwealth. Working together, we were also able to
protect existing clean air measures in Louisville
from being dismantled by the legislature. You also achieved
stable funding for the affordable housing
trust fund for those who need it most. 
If
you would like Kentuckians to continue to receive such legislative
action alerts on important issues, I hope you will consider
supporting
these efforts with a small donation. We now
have the ability to accept (one-time or automatically recurring)
donations from credit cards online
(or offline if you wish). A small but persistent gift of
$5 or $10 each month would go a long way to help support
the social justice work of the Kentucky Council of
Churches. Automatic monthly charges to you credit card can
make it easy for you to support the causes about which you are
passionate.
An
ongoing gift of $18.00 per month will pay for one month of this
Legislative Action Alert service.
Some of our State Legislators tell us that if they receive about
six letters or phone calls on an issue, it is perceived to be
a groundswell. Our CapWiz system makes easy for you to send
a letter directly to the right people, without taking much of
your time. Please consider supporting this effective social
justice tool. Will you help us be able to continue to track
the issues so you can act on them quickly and easily? Click
here
to check out our secure online donation interface.
A
gift of $25.00 per month will, over the course of one year, pay
for a complete scholarship so that a student who cannot afford
to attend EcuCamp will be able to attend. EcuCamp is a unity-building, anti-racism,
ecumenical training experience that was created by the Kentucky
Council of Churches and is being replicated by others in other
states. Will you help
a student who needs it the most?
A
gift of $35 per month will cover all of our expenses related to
our Wednesday Witness for Justice programs for an entire year. These events bring Church members to the
State Capital for sessions with lawmakers, theologians, and policy
experts. Will you support
this unique way of making systemic change?
A
gift of $50.00 per month would send two students to camp or would
pay for three months of our costs to communicate with our members
around the state. Would you help
us build
a more effective grass-roots movement?
If
you give $100.00 per month,
you will be supporting
our anti-racism initiatives in Kentucky, an environmental
justice speaker’s bureau, our peacemaking
work, the lobbying efforts of the staff of the KCC, the revitalization
of a commission on local ecumenism, and the program
work of our Commission on Social Justice Ministries.
You always have the option of making anonymous
contributions, but if you do not stipulate that you wish to
remain anonymous, we will tell our other members how grateful
we are to you. If you give any amount at any time, you will
be recorded as a Friend of the Council.
If you make contributions within a year that total between $120
and $299 you will be recognized at the Advocate Level. If you support the Council with contributions
totaling between $300 and $599 you will be recorded at the Activist Level. If you donate between $600 and $999 in
a year, you will be ascribed to the level of Witness in our recognition of donors. If you contribute
$1000.00 or more within a twelve month period you will be distinguished
at the highest level of contribution to the Kentucky Council of Churches
when we recognize our contributors.
We
have hard work ahead of us for the legislative sessions ahead.
Next session we will work to continue the momentum of the anti-bullying
bill, which made it through the House this year before stalling
at the desk of the Senate Majority Leader. Also, legislation
to increase the minimum wage made it out of committee,
but was not passed. We will focus on this again, encouraged
by the fact that minimum wage increases were just passed in West
Virginia and Arkansas.
Thank you.
Your servant for the unity of Christ's church,
Nancy Jo Kemper