Campaign Ideas

• Use One in Three© logo to create postcards, stickers, invitations, and posters to publicize your activities (See Download Section)

• Print Out a Campaign Poster. Download our campaign poster and print it out for display in your office, home, community store or coffee shop. (See Download Section)

• Create postcards announcing the launch your program’s One in Three© campaign. Send these out to donors, media, schools, youth groups, faith-based groups, college/university campuses, and police and court departments. Hold an event to launch the campaign. Present programs throughout the campaign period where One in Three© message is explicitly spoken and logo shown

• Build Relationships by inviting supporters and the general public to One in Three© campaign events. This is an opportunity to build relationships and to ask for financial support for your campaign activities.

• Include links to international organizations focused on anti-violence against women, global human rights, trafficking on you website. See One in Three© links for examples.

• Stay Active by attending vigils, panels, trainings, and workshops dealing with stopping violence against women in your area and speak out about the problem.

Download One in Three logo and tagline (See Download Section)

Contact Your Local Media

Write a letter-to-the editor on a topic addressed in the campaign such as trafficking of women. Write a feature article for your local or school paper. Write in support of more resources to address and bring solutions to the problem.

For more about working with the media see www.endabuse.org.

Organize a Public Event on International Women’s Day

Locate young people who use poetry, theatre, music and dance to create an event that is focused on violence against women. Contact high schools; ask them for help finding students who have writing/performance skills.

This link will provide show creative ways organizations are active on International Women’s Day (link: www.internationalwomensday.com).

Create a Poetry Slam Contest

Engage young people in thinking critically about violence against women taking place around the world by organizing a poetry slam contest. Develop a proposal on this idea and present to school clubs and groups and school administrators. (link: www.myspace.com/isangmahalseattle)

Provide Leadership to Create a Violence Free Zone

Recruit a small group of neighbors to your home to brainstorm ways to get involved and get others involved the work against violence against women. Discussion and dialogue is an important part of an awareness campaign. Come up with an annual event such as a neighborhood yard sale with proceeds going to your program every year.

Bicycle to Raise Awareness

Recruit bicyclists you know or a bicycle club to commit to a cross region or state ride to raise awareness.

For a model, see www.aboriginalwomenonthemove.org and find out about a 2006 Canadian cycling tour against family violence.

College/University Campuses

Sororities & Fraternities are required to perform community service work during the academic year and can be a great resource for local programs. Ask to meet with their panhellenic and/or fraternity council representatives. Come prepared with ideas about how they can adopt and support the campaign:

• Set-up an internet chat room to talk about dating violence, rape issues and problems.

• Institute a campus wide response to violence against women.

• Create an interdisciplinary task force to address violence against women.

• Co-host a forum on campus on global violence against women inviting students from other countries to facilitate a panel discussion.

• Provide training on violence against women for campus law enforcement.

• Enlist fraternities/sororities in education efforts.

• Connect with campuses organization’s working on solutions regarding gender based problems such as female genital mutilation (FGM) and human trafficking.

The One in Three© Chili Bowl

This can be an annual event. Find a volunteer committee to coordinate event tasks · Ask volunteers and supporter’s especially artists and high-profile people in you community to paint a (green ware) pottery bowl · Recruit local potters to fire bowls for you· Event attendees purchase a bowl that is then filled with chili or soup. The price of the bowl includes the soup/chili· Set price on celebrity bowls higher or auction them · Green ware can be purchased through a pottery supply store, usually discounted non-profits· Seek event sponsors for greater fundraising potential.

The One in Three© Activist Circle Fundraising

Ask a major donor, volunteer or friend of your organization if they would be willing to act as a host/leader of an activist circle for one year.

Create a list of 10-12 people; make a list of friends, acquaintances, family, colleagues, etc. who might be interested in supporting the One in Three© campaign in your area; choose those you consider to be passionate about issues effecting women. The activist circle host should send out invitations with the One in Three© icon. This group might meet one time, once a month or perhaps quarterly. Activist circle members would be asked to: promote your program’s One in Three© campaign activities, make a personal financial commitment, and fundraise on behalf of your program.

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