Start an awareness campaign about your cause at your school or in your neighborhood
Chances are there are tons of people out there who don’t know much about your cause or how many people it affects. Make some catchy flyers so they can be in the know and learn how they can make a difference too.
Double Check
First, make sure you are allowed to post your signs around school or on telephone poles and community bulletin boards. If your town won’t allow you to post around town, see if you can pass out flyers at your town hall, public library, a local business or at school.
Do Some Research
Gather some data for the signs and figure out how you want to present it. Do Something has some great info on tons of causes including facts, effects and dangers.
Investigate
Find out about some cause-relevant stuff in your area. Like if your cause is alcohol abuse, call your local Alcoholics Anonymous and ask about the details of alcoholism in your area. Don’t be afraid to include this info on your posters.
Details
See if you can get a quote from an expert. Call your local university and track down a professor. If your cause is drug addiction, talk to a recovering addict (Narcotics Anonymous may be able to help you here). Include it in your campaign. Real stories are powerful!
Images
Sometimes pictures make stronger statements than words and are as much a part of the message as the chosen words, so don’t be afraid to use them. If that recovering addict is willing to show his or her face, let them!
Power in People
Now that you’ve got all this info, get some friends together to help you design and complete the posters or flyers. They can also help you put them up when you’re done.
Variety is Key
Keep in mind, that in order to make this campaign effective, you have to vary your strategy. So think about making a few different kinds of signs:
- Small flyers to pass out to people
- Big, colorful posters to post on telephone polls: you want these to stand out because people will be driving and/or walking by them so you want to grab their attention.
- Informative flyers to post on cork boards or town message boards.
Timing
Timing is everything so find a time that is cause appropriate. Like if your cause is climate change, aim to have a campaign around Earth Day. If it’s alcoholism, April is Alcohol Awareness Month! But if you’ve missed the date, don’t be hesitant to start a campaign regardless.
Be Bold
Think of strange places you can put up posters and see if you can get permission to post them there. Marketers have put up ads in odd places because it’s an effective tactic. Like the doors in bathroom stalls of restaurants, cafes, and/or even in restrooms of your local bus or train station. Try it out!
Post and Repost
While going out one day and posting is great, keep in mind that weather may damage posters so you’ll want to go out periodically and repost your signs. You also won’t catch everyone in one day so schedule a few days to go out and distribute fliers.
The Extra Mile
You can also recruit speakers to come in and speak to students at your school, church, or community center about your cause. If your cause is discrimination, visit your local synagogue to see if someone can come in and speak about anti-Semitism. You can even go to your local police station and ask for resources. They’re usually more than willing to help support a positive cause.
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Were working on starting up a club and we'll keep you posted on any projects we do. Were going to try to do a project an month... we'll have to see how it works out!! Stay tuned to find out what awosome projects we end up doing and how they work out!!!
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Thank you so much !
I SO WANT TO STOP ABORTIONS!
what people think about abortions is over rated. you are entitled your own opinion and im not trying to put that down, but you have to consider what it would do to people with abusive families. it would put the person in a diffucult situation. im am and will always be pro-choice
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ok so i want to do a sex.ed thing at my school problem is i cnt its a catholic school... help!
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that is awesome! You can totally change the way people think if you're informed and have get lots of fun people on your side!
Check out the Do Something section on sexuality or check out the projects section to see what other people have done. Love that idea!
ok now i think that you need to have choices, but if you do not want the baby, then give it up for adoption!! havent you seen the movie juno? Those babys may not be real peole yet, but they have a soul
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I would like to work on HIV and STDs their are people in my school who have sex and think that its ok. Dont get me wrong its apart of life but its how they handle it. Its about 6 people who are in my school that are pregnant and about 4 that have kids already. I am in high school and they all are in grades 9-11 that are pregnant and have kids. I hear people talking saying they did it to this person and that person but that are not being safe.
Please do something
Im proud to know that I can help CYBER BULLYING AND BULLYING IN SCHOOL!
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i want to make a difference but I don't know what to do. Any other ideas?
just ask your school counciler if you can organize a group at school about it
I think abortion is wrong. If girls and women did not want to have a baby then why did they have sex.
im deff. gonna get a group of close friends. and do this i love this site. seriousley God brought me here. and now ik that this is waht im sopposed to do. =] thanks!
i respect your opinion, but think about this: a lot of my 10-15 year old friends have already started their period. if they were raped, and abortion was against the law, then they would have to go through the pregnancy. alot of my friends are low income families, so they wouldnt be able to support a baby/ies. also, they would have to quit school for quite awhile. i am so glad that the roe vs wade case happened. i beleive that people dont have the right to kill someone, even when they're in the womb, but think about the person having the baby. they kill their own life for that baby. it's a lose:lose situation.
I agree with both aspects of the situation; however one must account for the fact that if the pregnant girl is in high school, she would be taking away from her life (10 months) to recover from her pregnancy which is almost a year of the critical high school period lost. I think that in extenuating circumstances such as rape, or pregnancy under 16 should be legalized, but think that females older than that should have a valid and arguable reason for abortion. Simply because they did not feel like being responsible is not acceptable. In saying this, I do not know that if I found myself in the situation whether or not I would choose pro-choice, or follow the pregnancy to term.
I ABSOLUTLEY HATE ABORTION!!!
JUST CAUSE U GET ONE DOESNT MAKE U UNPREGNANT IT JUST MAKES U A MOTHER THAT KILLED HER OWN KID!!!!
im not reall exactly sure where to start with any of this!
i really want to do something like make a difference but im kinda lost!
ANY SUGGESTIONS???
I am and always will be pro choice.
The whole 'if a girl didn't want to have a baby then why did she have sex' thing is crap. It is not always the person's choice. Even if it was the girls choice an abortion may have been the best choice for the situatuion.
Anyone who believes it is against the will of God to have an abortion doesn't have very strong faith in God. If they did, they would trust that the baby would be taken care of by God when the abortion happened and that it would be in a better place after it did.
A lot women who get abortions are not killers. They can't handle having a child. Sometimes it is a medical thing that prevents them from going through with a pregnancy.
It causes a lot of emotional problems for those who get abortions and in the end the babies are not the only ones who get hurt.
It is about choice. You have to do what you feel you have to do.
Women deserve control over their own bodies.
I am pro-choice, and always will be. I value all of your opinions, I just don't agree with some of them. As in my comment a few above, and with helper143c's, and jordaink's. The baby will be in a better place. Would you want another child to have to go through POVERTY? I mean, think about it. REALLY think about it...
(pro-choice, still)
Did you guys know, when abortion wasn't legal, women killed their babies themselves in the following ways:
-a hanger, pole, etc (im not going to go into detail)
-throwing themselves down the stairs
-hitting the stomache/asking to be punched, kicked, etc in stomache
-illegal abortions by doctors, with dirty supplies
-Many, many, more..
It was/is sad so many lives were lost, but most of those women/wives already had 2-10 children. It is such a horrible concept. I wish we had a choice, when we have sex, on whether we want a baby, or not. Like pressing a little button that says "BABY" or "NO BABY." Life would be so much easier...
This is a great thing to do and I'm glad I heard about it! I live in a small town so I KNOW people will be willing to join and spread the word!
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sex before marriage is wrong, i am sorry, but everyone is entitled to their opinion.
I am grateful that I live in a country where abortion is legal. It is a form of birth control that allows women to control their own destiny. Without abortion services, the patriarchy and misgony will continue in a far more pervasive and skillful way.
I am working to keep my politicians informed of the importance of this issue and donating time and money to keeping abortion safe and legal.
same thing w/ me i was on Wikipedia b-ing bored and i ran across Selena Gomez's Wikipedia page and i saw this part that said she was involved w/ an org. called dosomething.org so i clicked on the link cuz i was bored but i realize it was in God's plan 4 me =] YAY
im sry but importance of abortion!?! seriously wow. it's killing a living breathing child. and u can't say it's not a child it has a heartbeat. ppl believe their own things but if u realy don't want the baby put it in a adoption home. i no alot of friends of my mom's that are looking to adopt but can't. not trying to be offensive just putting in my opinion
i'm not quite sure either it's so exciting and soooo much 2 comprehend i want to do something w/ fitness and health, environment, or education or all 3 =] hope we both end up getting it lolz :0
I want to start a campaign/project to help stop violence/bullying/abuse, but i don't know what I can do. I already have a website..sort of. I can make flyers and posters, but what can I do to actually help people?
wwww.teensagainstviolence.piczo.com
PRO CHOICE 4EVER!!!!!!!!!!
I belive a woman has a right over her body. I also believe it is between her and her god what she does.
a good idea for recycled (twice) paper is buying the recycled stuff and once u like print on one side and don't need it anymore b4 recycling it just use the flip side for sumthing else :)
Thank you for this wonderful suggestion. In our school, we have assemblies every week. I'll try to convince our principal if she could give me a day for it... Thanks!
Yes!! Finially someone who agrees with me. Abortion can sometimes be the only choice for a struggling teen. A 15 year old with only one parent (who is living off wellfare), and in serious need of an education cannot take care of a child. End of story.
So I want to raise awarness on how to stay fit and basically the harms that obesity can be and also ways and places one can go to in order to stay fit, instead of being at home watching tv. Does anyone think this is a good idea?
I am starting to find homes for stray cats and gathering coupons for cat food to feed them.
i think its an awsome idea (:
i wamt 2 knw if u want 2 share ideas?? haha email me!
brittwentrawr@aol.com
im starting a campaign to tell ppl the importance of animal adoption (: if they want a pet get the animal from a shelter instead of a selfish place that sells animals that have never been abused or hurt. the animals in the shelter want a real home they want to fill loved for once instead of being in a jail their entire lives waiting and hoping for a new better life!
I am having a club meeting at my house this Saturday to invite new club members. I am serving milk and cookies and we will make flyers with my dosomething web page to get the message out!
I think that people who abuse animals should be punished the same way. Because every animal that is abused doesn't really now whats going on. So I am doing a campaign. My campaign will be to stop animal abuse and to punish those who do it.
I can not wait to start my campain on animal testing. This page really helped me know what to do and how - THANKS!!!
I was just passing by, but here is something I thought might be worth sharing...
I am a female, and I was sexually abused three different times when I was fifteen, each by different people. While I have never been raped by means of forced intercourse, I have felt the pains that abuse causes. I know firsthand what it means to wonder if something is wrong with you, or who to trust.
That being almost two years ago now, I have since met a woman who did have an abortion. She suffereed nearly forty years because she felt she had killed her own child, which she had. She was not raped or forced into sex, she just did it outside of marriage and it killed her to have the abortion.
Here is what I am trying to get at. What you guys are looking at to support your view is the result the child is going to face. I have never been pregnant, but the woman I mentioned and myself can both tell you why abortion is wrong.
It not only kills a child, it hurts the mother emotionally and in some ways physically.
What abortion does to a mother is it gives her a sense of guilt, causes depression, and can lead to things such as self-injury and drug abuse. There really is no win out of the situation, and the child can be put up for adoption and have a chance at a better life. One of my favorite quotes is "It is not in removing the hardships, but to overcome them." Sadly I forget the author of this quote, but I feel that this is what we should try doing here.
Instead of arguing the consequences of both, we should try to prevent the situation from getting out of hand. I understand your views on abortion and I accept the fact that you may be unmoved from those views, but I believe the best way to come into agreement is to help cause awareness of the consequences of sex before marriage. Because it's not just abortion- there's STDs too, and other drama people don't need at a young age. That's why I'm glad for DoSomething.org, cuz it's websites like this that give me a sense of ability to change what is going on. I can prevent future sexual abuse cases by sharing what I know and what I've learned. That's where I'm coming from anyways...
Giving people awareness on how our state constitution need to be amended. There are still many laws that affect all people in the state of Alabama. The Constitution was set forth in 1901 and many laws like the Sunset clause are out of date and affects many residents in Alabama. People need to be informed about this matter because they do not really understand the importance of the amends of the state constitution. Join the cause. ~KNOW THE LAW IT DOES AFFECT YOU~!!!
i am trying to spread the awareness of childhood leukemia and the lack of bone marrow donors! trying to convince people in my community to register to become a bone marrow donor...! it can save a life!
I want to bring up the awareness of animal welfare... I regularly donate to The Humane Society (a no kill shelter in my town) but i want to do something more!!! these were awesome tips and i know i will use them!!
I want to bring up the awareness of animal welfare... I regularly donate to The Humane Society (a no kill shelter in my town) but i want to do something more!!! these were awesome tips and i know i will use them!!
EVERYONE SHOULD DO THINGS THIS ARTICLE TELLS US ABOUT!!! IF WE DON'T WHO WILL? THAT'S RIGHT, NO ONE. AND THEN WHAT HAPPENS TO THE WORLD? iT'S PRETTY MUCH DESTROYED.
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