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PUBLICITY AND RECOGNITION

It is important that your project receives publicity and that your volunteers are recognized.

Get someone in your organization to prepare a media release in advance of each project and contact the media for support. For detailed information about how to conduct a media campaign please click here.

Involving a local celebrity will help stimulate the media to provide coverage and help provide recognition to your volunteers.

Here are some other ideas for publicity

Offer to do an interview with local Persuade your local radio or television station to run radio or television station(s) about a an environmental quiz, or invite you to participate in one local PITCH-IN Project to Clean Up the of their "open-line" programs. Possible topics: how we can World. all reduce waste; environmental shopping tips; etc...

Write a letter to the editor, an article or a series of Make a banner and hang it across your articles about beautification/conservation/waste main street during PITCH-IN WEEK in disposal/recycling. Use information from the PITCH-IN May. Resource Library on this web site.

Plan a Recognition Luncheon to recognize PITCH-IN Make PITCH-IN CANADA WEEK volunteers. Approach a local service club to sponsor and Posters to publicize local activities or to invite dignitaries and the media. Present free Certificates highlight litter and other pollution of Participation from PITCH-IN CANADA. These are problems. available from this Web Site after you have registered your PITCH-IN Project. Consider presenting other forms of recognition such as PITCH-IN pins, crests (for Scouts and Guides).

Encourage the media to write/produce a series on the Take the media on a tour of clean and "sources" of litter. These are: commercial refuse put- dirty areas in your community. Make outs; household refuse put-outs (during garbage sure you show the dirty areas again collection day!); construction sites; uncovered trucks; after you have cleaned them up. loading docks; motorists and pedestrians.

Ask radio stations to air PITCH-IN Publicize the need for everyone to reduce, reuse and CANADA's public service recycle as best they can. Encourage composting as an announcements(PSA's) promoting easy way to reduce waste and enrich the soil. PITCH-IN WEEK and/or maintaining a clean environment. Add information about your local activities wherever For information on composting and recycling visit other possible. parts of our Resource Centre

Ask local cable stations to air PITCH- Ask newspapers to feature PITCH-IN CANADA's IN CANADA videos; provide them with public service advertisements. These need to be a copy or ask them to order a master downloaded from our Web Site and reprinted on a good dub from PITCH-IN CANADA. quality printer in order to be acceptable for reproduction. Some newspapers will be able to download the file directly from our Web Site. Call them to discuss this/make them aware of the availability of these free ads.

Make your media (TV, Radio, Local Cable and newspapers) aware of PITCH-IN CANADA's Web Site as a resource. We do not have the funds to promote the Site as much as we would like to - please be our local volunteer!. There is a special section on this Site for the media. Remember our address: www.pitch-in.ca.