WALK DOWN MAIN STREET
Fundraising Campaign for Continental Congress 2009

Suggested Steps to follow:

1) Week before Event - BY EMAIL: Send “hometown release” to editor of the town where you plan to  have your Walk Down Main Street with a nice note, mentioning locals who are involved with CC2009 and dates of your planned efforts and “appreciate any efforts to mention this in the paper.”   Include the color picture of the silver rounds in your attachment with the release!

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Submit This News Release Locally: Citizens Rising in Defense of the Constitution

Word Document Version

If you can drop it by in person, better still!  Personalize the release in the dateline (town, state and date), put in names of area delegates and their hometown names, put your name in as contact at the end.  If you know the specific dates you will be doing your Walk Down Main Street, insert them into the paragraph which talks about this campaign. Weekly hometown papers usually come out once a week on Wednesday or Thursday.   Try to submit the information the Friday before so the editor has plenty of time to pull the information together.  The idea is to have the article come out the day(s) JUST before your WALK DOWN MAIN STREET.

2) Get your CC2009 TEAMS OF TWO together to walk through your town!  In patriotic costume?  Whatever you decide to wear, always dress nicely as you represent CC2009, the Constitution and America.  You can have multiple teams of 2 in one town going out or you can split up and go into area towns all at the same time.  (If you do this, you can insert the names of the towns into your press release and also submit these to the hometown papers in those places.)

3) Suggested Materials for WALK DOWN MAIN STREET:

• The idea is to keep costs to a minimum, so ample funds can be raised from this effort.As you talk to them about CC2009, give them CC2009 Slim Jim
• Sample Silver Round – show them what they will receive as a thank you from WTP
• Copy of newspaper article (if one runs about CC2009)
• Mandatory Donor Form which includes receipt to leave with merchant if he/she donates on the spot.
• CC2009 Poster flyer leave behind – for merchant to affix to store window.
• Option: WTP brochure – black cover with TJ Memorial on the front - email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it to have a box mailed to you.

Notes on Donor Form

After telling merchant about CC2009, if they want to donate right then and there, you fill out the form with them.   Please note places where your signature and telephone information is requested. 

Give the merchant the top part (their receipt).

You keep the bottom part and put it in an envelope.  Send all the “orders for coins” you receive and mail to Bob, where they will be processed and coin orders placed through Rob Gray, then mailed direct to the merchant.

If the merchant wants to read the materials and donate later, leave the entire form with him or her.  BE SURE to sign your name and leave your telephone number in both the top and bottom parts of the form.  Both they and WTP need that contact information.   The merchant can then mail in the form.

4) All checks and monies received go to your state coordinator and/or direct to Bob Schulz at WTP headquarters.

Also see WALK DOWN MAIN STREET talking points!