| October 2009
ABOLITION AGENDA A publication of the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty for the benefit of its affiliates
 This issue of Abolition Agenda offers several guides regarding human resources and fundraising efforts for Affiliates, as well as information about our upcoming 2010 Annual Conference in Louisville, KY. It also features some communications strategies for reaching more people of color.
If you haven't already, please visit www.shoutingfromtherooftops.org to find out more about our new campaign to spread the word that an innocent man has been executed. We hope you find this information useful, and thanks again for all the work you do!
Diann Rust-Tierney
Executive Director, NCADP Back to top NCADP 2010 Annual Conference - Building Bridges to Wider Audiences  Kentucky is famous for its bluegrass music, the Kentucky Derby, Louisville Slugger baseball bats, and as the birthplace of heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali. In January it will also be known as the site of one of the largest national gatherings of death penalty abolitionists in the country, when the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty holds its 2010 Conference and Dinner at the Seelbach Hilton Hotel from January 14 to January 17 in Louisville. Read more.
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Fundraising for Affiliates
 Ed Fichter, Vice President for Development at the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, NCADP Board Member Paul O'Shea, and Sachin Chheda presented a session on affiliate training at this year's ALTI. Read more.
Back to top Human Resources Considerations for Affiliates By Margaret Summers
 How do you determine your organization's staffing needs? What does a "volunteer coordinator" do? How often should a performance evaluation of paid staff be conducted? These and other matters were discussed during the August 25, 2009 training conference call about human resources issues in nonprofits. Read more.
Back to top Communications Strategies to People of Color
By Margaret Summers
 People of color are a crucial constituency for our movement. Our communications and messaging plans should include outreach to news media outlets of color. But how do we find the names and locations of newspapers, television and radio stations and blogs which are owned and/or operated by people of color? How do we establish relationships with these outlets? Read more.
Back to top  Abolition Agenda is an information service for Affiliates of the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty. Your input is an important part of its content. Share your success stories and lessons learned with us so we can share them with all Affiliates. Contact us at Margaret@ncadp.org.
Please join NCADP on Facebook or LinkedIn, follow us on Twitter, read more on our website, blog, or at the Huffington Post, contribute online, and support our Shouting from the Rooftops campaign.
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