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UCRCoA >> Parents Day Proclamations, Activities, and Rallies
(+) Sunday, July 26th, is PARENTS DAY: By operation of federal law (US Code, Title 36, Section 135), the fourth Sunday in July is officially known as Parents Day, and every level of local, state and federal government is directed by this law to officially recognize the importance of parents in the lives of children "through proclamations, activities, and educational efforts" - i.e., for once, government HAS to agree with us, and also put it in fancy writing for us, and do something "educational" about it, just for the asking... You can also see the same law here and here and here.
(+) Recruiting LOCAL PEOPLE is our goal: While you can certainly go after your Governor, our main objective is to make contact with tons of new LOCAL people, and therefore, get lots of new LOCAL supporters to help us do everything we do... To do that, we need to concentrate on getting our "proclamations, activities, and educational efforts" from LOCAL governments and officials, because "activities" like parades, picnics, music, fireworks or etc., will connect us best at the LOCAL level.
(+) So, follow these EASY STEPS in order: "Its sooo easy, a caveman can do it!"
- STEP 1 - FORWARD THIS NOW: Forward this important information to everyone else you know, because it is critical to get as many official proclamations issued as we possibly can (and free parades, etc.), nationwide.
- STEP 2 - CHOOSE RECIPIENTS: Pick one or more government bodies and/or officials that you are going to submit your Proclamation and Activities request to. You can quickly get all the names, titles, physical addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, and fax numbers to COUNTY and CITY elected officials, by clicking the links within the next two paragraphs, or even Federal officials in the third below
- STEP 2a (COUNTIES): The online National Association of Counties has a master set of updated contact information for these typical examples of county officials: County Commissioner(s), County Council Member(s), County Superintendent of Schools, County Sheriff, County Property Appraiser, County Tax Collector, County Prosecuting Attorney, County Treasurer, County Auditor, County Assessor, County Recorder, and County Clerk of the Court. Any or ALL such officials are perfectly fair game for a Proclamation, your best chances for getting "Activities" are likely from the County itself, the School Board, or the Sheriff's Department, because they have extra money like that. Every County also has various Boards and Commissions, and each of those are options, too...
- STEP 2b (CITIES & TOWNS): The online National League of Cities does the same thing for these types of typical city listings: City/Town Council, City/Town Clerk-Treasurer, City/Town Manager, City/Town Parks Board, City/Town Advisory Plan Commission, City/Town Advisory Utility Board, City/Town Board of Zoning Appeals, City/Town Fire Board, City/Town Police Safety Board, City/Town Police Department, City/Town Fire Department, City/Town Street Department, City/Town Parks Department. Again, any or ALL such officials or entities are perfectly fine for a Proclamation, and just use your best judgment on getting the ones with the purse strings to set you up with an "Activity" and "Educational Effort"...
- STEP 2c (ANY OTHER GOVT REP): While the President will automatically get handed his 2009 Parents Day Proclamation for signature, nobody else will, and you don't have to stop with the above STATE government officials only. If you enter your Zip Code into the first, upper-left search box on the Project Vote Smart website and click the Go button, you will get a great and informative listing of ALL of the currently elected officials covering your own area, as well as the current Candidates for office. Go for it... why not?
- STEP 3 - PRINT COVER LETTER: Edit and print your COVER LETTER for the government person or body that you are submitting your request to. Take the government recipient's name, title, mailing address and phone number from what you found above, and your own contact information, and swap them into whichever version of the Template Cover Letter you need: Click here for Microsoft Word format (*.DOC); Click here for general Rich Text Format (*.RTF); Click here for just plain text format that you can copy and paste into your favorite editor; Click here for PDF format that you can just print and fill in blank lines by handwriting, if really necessary [least professional...].
- STEP 4 - PRINT INFORMATIONAL PAGE: Print and include this single page "standard info packet" for your government recipient, which includes the written law, so they know why they must honor your request right away. Simple. No editing. Just print and include a copy of this single page.
- STEP 5 - PRINT AND INCLUDE PROCLAMATION: Just like doing the Cover Letter from that Template above, edit the standard Parents Day Proclamation template accordingly, available in Microsoft Word (*.DOC) format, Rich Text Format (*.RTF), plain text format that you can copy and paste into any editor, or PDF format with blank lines.
- STEP 6 - ANNOUNCE YOUR SUCCESS TO OTHERS: The moment you get news of your Parents Day Proclamation being signed, and/or of any local "Activities" that will be done in honor of Parents Day, immediately tell everyone joined into your UCRCoA State Yahoo Group of other activists and organizations connected together, so that plans can be made to take advantage of your great success, by scheduling a rally or whatever works best. Don't delay. Tell everyone!
- STEP 7 - USE ONE SUCCESS TO CREATE MORE: Not only announce your signed Proclamation(s) and any Activities to other activists on the State Groups, but also use your new found support from one government signer, to encourage your other government people to do the same, too!
(+) For electronic submissions by email, etc.: Simply "print" everything above into a PDF file, instead of onto a sheet of paper... Instead of just clicking the [fast] print icon, pick the slower "File > Print..." drop-down menu choices, where you get a print dialog box, so you can choose a different printer, your new "PDF" printer --> after you download and install the free PrimoPDF. When you have printed/saved all three to PDF files, then attach those to an email, and send! OK. Get started. Thank you!
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