Ideas for Promoting
Bill of Rights Day
1. Write a letter to the editor.
- Larger circulation papers are better, but
- Smaller ones are more likely to print your letter
- Click here to find your local media outlets
2. Call (or write to) a talk show.
3. Write to local elected officials.
- Send information & a sample resolution
- Urge that he/she offer a resolution for BORD
- Click here to find contact information for state and local officials
4. Offer the BORD concept at local civic or social club.
- Call the secretary of the organization to put BORD on agenda of "new business"
- Conduct a brief discussion at the meeting; show sample resolution
- Use Bill of Rights Day Committee materials as handouts at themeeting, if desired
5. Contact a friendly member of your local school board.
- Send information & sample resolution
- Urge the school board to pass resolution
- Urge the school board to direct schools to study Bill of Rights
- Propose a BORD writing competition for students (offer a prize)
- Prize idea: cash
- Prize idea: free product or service from your business
- Prize idea: recognition and a certificate from your civic org
- Combination of the above—or ... be creative!
6. Sponsor a BORD writing or speech competition in your child's public or private school or homeschooling group (contact school or group directly—see item 5 above for ideas).
7. Contact a "local access" cable channel programmer who is putting on educational or current affairs shows.
- Ask if BORD would fit into goals of the program
- Offer to talk about Bill of Rights Day on the program, or
- Suggest an interview with someone from the Bill of Rights Day Committee
8. Contact your local public library.
- Suggest that they put out a Bill of Rights display during the week leading up to Dec. 15
- Ask them to allow you to place a BORD poster on display during same week
- Put on your own BORD discussion in the library's meeting room
9. In your workplace, cubicle, workbench, store window, etc. (if permitted):