Organizing the Food Not
Bombs Presentation is rewarding and fun. You will get to work with
interesting people and the results can be powerful. You will help start
a new Food Not Bombs group in your community and the Food Not Bombs
groups in your area will be energized. We have a 100 percent record of
inspiring students to become active in social change. Your can make a
huge difference in the lives of your classmates by organizing the Food
Not Bombs Presentation. Here is a simple checklist to help you schedule
and prepare for the presentation.
Organizing
co-sponsors
Call all other campus groups and ask to
speak at their next meeting.
At the meeting explain how the Food
Not Bombs presentation will build excitment about the work of their
organization.
Ask each club to request funding from the student
senate.
Ask them to promote it through their networks.
Many
clubs can benefit as Food Not Bombs supports animal rights, vegetarian
diets, and end to hunger and war.
Talk with Amnesty International,
SDS, Campus Antiwar Network, Vegetarian Society, Hunger groups and ACLU
clubs.
Many department heads might also be interested in supportig
the presentation.
Organizing the time, date and
venue
Request a room that can hold from 50 to 200
people.
Choose a date and time that will not be conflicting with
tests or off campus activities.
The presentation could be during
hunger week or during another campus event.
Ask for a room where
we can set up a literature table and show a DVD.
Give your self a
few weeks to promote the event.
Requesting the honorarium
Ask each supporting club to request an honorarium from
the student senate.
The Young Republicans often get $30,000 for
their speakers so don't be shy.
Tell the senate that the honorarium
is donated to Food Not Bombs so it can help more people.
We will
provide you with a w-9 form and a contract to help you request the
funds.
The public service
announcement
Get the email addresses and contact names of
all your local media.
Call all the media people that place event
announcments and let them know about the presentation.
Take our
public service announcement and add the time, date, location and
sponsoring clubs to our text.
Email the PSA to all your local
media.
Call them to make sure they have it.
Tableing
Set up a table outside
the student union and provide flyers announcing the presentation.
Consider having a literature table with flyers annoucing the
presentation at concerts and other events.
Arrainge to have a table
at the student union the morning of the presentation so Keith can talk
with students durig the day.
Promotion
Take our flyer and add the correct time, date, location
and sponsors.
Post flyers all over campus and in your community a
week or more before the presentation.
Have the announcment posted
on the campus electronic bill boards.
Email an announcemnet to all
the lists of each campus club and off campus groups.
Chalk the
announcment on sidewalks the day of the presentation.
Set up interviews with local media.
Post the event on your
groups website and on your local Indymedia website.
Transportation
Request funding from
the student senate for airfare or car rental.
Provide some one to
pick Keith up at the airport if needed.
Provide clear details of how
to find the student union.
Housing
Ask if housing is
provided by the school.
Request a hotel room or on campus housing for guest speakers.
Food
Request a meal pass so Keith can eat with you on campus.
Organize a meal with campus activists and teachers.
Logistics for the
presentation
Test the DVD player before the presentation
Make sure there is at leat one 6 foot long table for Keith's literature.
Ask someone to talk about the work of thier organization before Keith speaks.
Follow-up
Call and email everone that signed up at the presentation.
Set up a follow-up Food Not Bombs meeting.
Keith has
been interviewed on radio, TV and for many newspapers, and magazines.
Please arrange interviews with your local media to promote the
presentation. MEDIA
INTERVIEWS
THE FOOD NOT BOMBS
PRESENTATION FOLDER
Print the cover of the
Food Not Bombs Presentation Folder to provide more information to
your student senate Download
PDF of cover
Print the
inside of the Food Not Bombs Presentation Folder - (Side 2 ) Download PDF of side
2
THE FOOD NOT BOMBS PRESENTATION
POSTER
DOWN LOAD Sample Flyer to use to announce a Food
Not Bombs Presentation in your community- Download PDF of flyer
To get help promoting the presentation talk to Keith at
575-770-3377 or email him at
keith@foodnotbombs.net.
