Keep in Touch with Elected Officials
After the election, it’s time to move to a new phase in your advocacy.
You can maintain and enhance your connections with your newly elected
representatives in a variety of ways.
Congratulate the Winners
When the election is over, send a note to the winning candidate. Congratulate him or her, and remind the victor that you hope he or she will
remember hungry and poor people as the legislative process unfolds.
You can organize
Conduct an Offering of Letters
an Offering of
Each year, Bread for the World invites
Letters in your
churches across the country to take up a nachurch. See
tionwide Offering of Letters to Congress on an
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issue that is important to hungry people. Tens
for help.
of thousands of handwritten letters and personalized emails to elected officials are brought
forward with the Sunday offering. You can organize an Offering of Letters
in your church. See www.bread.org/ol for help. Or contact any of Bread’s
organizers in the hub offices.
Pay a Visit
Keep in touch with your senators and representative by visiting their
offices to keep them up to date on hunger concerns, and ask for their
support on key legislation. Keep abreast of current Capitol Hill policy
developments on hunger by subscribing to email updates from Bread for
the World at www. bread.org.
Visit your legislators in their home offices during congressional recesses in the late summer and during holiday periods.
Especially when they are newly elected, legislators need to know that
they have a constituency that cares about hunger and poverty. New legislators are rapidly educating themselves in the weeks after the election on the
issues they will deal with during their terms.
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