Raise Your Voice - Campaign Launch Resource Guide

[Insert your college name here ] has joined more than 600 colleges and universities across the country to implement the Raise Your Voice campaign —a national effort to increase student involvement in public life.The goal of this student-led initiative is to unleash the voices and power of college students to begin conversations,address issues,and create solutions for the challenges facing our democracy.

We need your help to bring this story to a broader audience and have developed this brief position document to highlight our efforts to address the issue of insert issue here. We have also listed below a number of ways we hope you will be willing to work with us on this campaign.

• [Insert college name here ] students feel [insert issue ] is one of the most pressing
issues today.

Provide a brief overview of the issue.

• Here’s why [insert issue ] is such an important issue..

Provide a brief explanation for why students believe the issue is important,including a
compelling statistic.

• Here’s what [insert number ] students locally are doing to act on this issue..

Provide a brief overview of your local actions.

Please consider a brief meeting with us to learn more about issues of importance to students and how we are addressing these matters. Please also consider attending events that have been organized by students, faculty and community partners, for Raise Your Voice —A Week of Action, February 16 -22,2003.[insert information on events] For additional information please contact [insert contact information.]