Promote Your Event

Local, grassroots community involvement builds a sense of ownership and stewardship and is critical to the long-term success of the event.  Volunteers can be recruited in numerous ways:

• Use nearby property owners’ and neighbors’ names and addresses from tax maps to notify them of the cleanup.
• Contact friends, associates, colleges, universities, high schools, churches, watershed groups, birding clubs, sportsmen’s clubs, youth groups, scouts, Lions, Kiwanis, etc.
• Solicit the local media as key members of the community team before, during, and after the cleanup.  Ask them to raise awareness of the problem and the need for volunteers through newspaper articles, television, and radio.
• Create flyers and utilize local newsletters and bulletin boards to publicize the cleanup.
• Download a Great American Cleanup of PA logo to include in your promotional literature.
• Contact local businesses and organizations to get in-kind donations for things like lunches, drinks, advertising, etc.  They may also offer volunteers, too.