School Pledge Drive Suggestions

• Set-up a booth to sign pledges in a busy part of your school (see "Pledge Drive Booth Kit Contents" for details).
• Show the Birmingham Pledge 5-minute video. Set up a VCR and monitor next to your Pledge Drive Booth while the booth is staffed or ask for a special assembly or pep rally about the pledge and show the video or ask history teachers to show the video and discuss it. (Video available upon request).
• Set a goal for the number of pledges to get signed.
• Ask to announce the Birmingham Pledge and your involvement over the school intercom during morning announcements.
• Ask to put a schedule of events and Birmingham Pledge in faculty mailboxes.
• Report for your school paper and write an article (sample article provided for you to personalize).
• Work with the art teachers to hold an art contest or showing of art representing the Birmingham Pledge and positive race relations.

What other ideas do you have? Please let us know activities that worked for you so that we may share them with others!