Grasstops Outreach Toolkit
APTS Action, Inc. has prepared a Grasstops Outreach Toolkit for your modification and use in mobilizing your board members and other key supporters. The toolkit includes the following, which may be downloaded here:
An Action Alert summarizing the challenges we face, as well as providing information for your key supporters and community organizations to get involved in this campaign;
An overview of public broadcasting’s appropriations requests and the Administration’s budget request;
A set of PowerPoint slides providing an overview of appropriations issues affecting Public Television;
Sample letters for your board members and key supporters to use to communicate with your congressional delegation;
Sample letters for your Members of Congress to use to express their support for Public Television’s funding requests to their leadership on the Appropriations Committees;
A list of contact information for members of your congressional delegation;
A station case sheet to provide your key supporters with your station’s recent federal grant information to enable them to see the connection between the national funding requests and local support for your station.
