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Resources: Practical Training > Advocacy

Domestic Poverty / Social Justice

AED Domestic Poverty Toolkit
     Developed for use during Lent, 2011

Materials are organized in 3 categories:
1. Defining & Measuring Poverty
  • Measuring Poverty in the US - Fact Sheet
  • Concepts of Income Distribution, Wealth & Poverty

2. Teaching Congregations about Poverty
  • Starting a Community Garden
  • 5-week Congregational Study: Where there is despair, hope.
  • Stations of the Cross & Suffering today - a chart
  • Just Neighbors - Family Promise's educational program
  • Called to Serve: The Church responds to domestic poverty, April 2010. A sermon by The Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori
  • Systems & Economic Justice
  • Teaching Poverty - Links to online resources
  • Poverty Sunday Toolkit - produced by Sojourners, 2008

3. Telling the Story of Poverty
  • Community Garden Leadership Handbook

Episcopal Relief and Development (ERD) Disaster Resource Library
Includes disaster preparedness, curriculum for youth and adults, planning and best practices. Here.

ERD Ready to Serve database
Add your name to the database of volunteers, ready to respond to a disaster.

Membership in AED enables us to provide these and other valuable resources. Thank you.
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AED is a membership association of persons and dioceses within The Episcopal Church whose mission is to increase participation and involvement of all baptized persons in Christ's diaconal ministry, especially by promoting and supporting the diaconate.
Association for Episcopal Deacons 
P.O. Box 1516
Westborough, MA 01581-6516
Phone: (508) 873-1881
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