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All GROUP and ORGANIZATION LEADERS: Scout Troops, Lions
Clubs, Rotary Clubs, and Other Social, Service, and Work Groups!
YOU can make a difference!
Here
are some simple steps and ideas for engaging the members of your group or organization as well as engaging
people who you work with (children, youth, and adults) in your community:
1. Read more about I4I
on the "Kids," "Youth," and "Adults" pages. Learn how to "Send in Your Ideas."
2. Provide all your members as well as the people
who you work with in the community with the I4I website url (www.Idea4Idea.com) and provide directions to help them access and navigate the website on the computer. This can be an activity
done as a group or one-on-one. Or, you could send out a flyer with information about the website to your group members and
to people who you serve in the community.
3. Review the pages on the website that would most interest
your members and those you serve in your community ("Kids," "Youth," "Adults," "Schools and Service Groups" and other pages of interest, e.g. "Awards / Honors").
4. Discuss the topics of Peace, Green-Living, and Health with your group and with people
who you serve and talk about why they are important to the world. Listen to what people say
about these topics. You can do this as part of a special group discussion, presentation, or project.
5. Let your group members and people you serve know that they have good ideas and can think
and do things everyday that help the world. Their ideas and actions may be very simple and easy, or may be very
complex. It does not matter. Every idea and action for Peace, Green-Living, and Health is important.
For example, the girls in a Scout Troop might come up with an Idea for Health, "It would
be great if we started a "Big Brother" and "Big Sister" biking team in our community."
Help the group write down and send in the Idea. Ideas are just that. They are ideas that may not
be acted upon yet. That is fine. Others may read them and decide to do them.
Your group
or organization or the people in your community, especially if adults, may have very ambitious and complicated ideas
and actions. These are fine too. Encourage your group or organization and those you work with in your
community to share their ideas and actions with the world.
Also, remember anyone can write and send in
a Poem as an "Idea" or "Action." You can gather poems from your
members and from people in the community as a special project and send them in from the group to the website for posting.
Don't worry if your group members or the people you work with in the community think of something that
is already posted on the website. That is okay. They can send it in for posting too. It is part of starting a
good habit. Let them copy and build on others' ideas and actions. The important thing is that your group
members and those in your community learn about and get in a regular habit of thinking and acting in ways that help the
world.
Group projects are great ways to get started. For example, the Lions Club in a community
can hold a Health Fair and send that in as an Action for Health or a College Study Group can come up with an Idea
for Peace. An Office Group can think of an Action for Green-Living and do it together and send in both
the Idea and Action for posting.
6. Help your group members send in their ideas and actions.
Be
sure your members, Groups, and Organizations follow the I4I Rules for the Ideas and Actions that you submit.
Tell
Group or Organization members and people who you serve in the community how they can also send in ideas and actions on their own. They do not have to go through you. 7. Help your group members and the people who you serve in the community explore the ideas and actions on the website to get them thinking about other things they can do. Put ideas together to make a new
idea. Or, if they see a good action they want to do, help them do it as a project and then send that in as the group "Action".
8. Be interested in and encourage ideas and actions from the group and submit them to the website
for posting. Point out how the ideas and actions are growing on the website and coming from different people
and groups in other locations. Congratulate your group for helping the world. Watch the World Banners grow!
9. Collect, distribute, and recognize all the efforts of the group and note any HONOR CERTIFICATES you receive for the Group members and the Group and Organization-wide ideas
or actions posted on the website. Give them to the person(s) or group(s) or entire organization, as appropriate,
based on who had the idea or did the action. Show the HONOR CERTIFICATES to the Group, Organization and Community leadership, and other
organizations, as appropriate. Tell Group and Organization members to
keep their HONOR CERTIFICATES. 7. Help your group
members and the people who you serve in the community explore the ideas and actions on the website to get them thinking about other things they can do. Put ideas together to make a new
idea. Or, if they see a good action they want to do, help them do it as a project and then send that in as the group "Action".
8. Be interested in and encourage ideas and actions from the group and submit them to the website
for posting. Point out how the ideas and actions are growing on the website and coming from different people
and groups in other locations. Congratulate your group for helping the world. Watch the World Banners grow!
9. Collect, distribute, and recognize all the efforts of the group and note any HONOR CERTIFICATES you receive for the Group members and the Group and Organization-wide ideas
or actions posted on the website. Give them to the person(s) or group(s) or entire organization, as appropriate,
based on who had the idea or did the action. Show the HONOR CERTIFICATES to the Group, Organization and Community leadership, and other
organizations, as appropriate. Tell Group and Organization members to
keep their HONOR CERTIFICATES. 10. Find special ways to
honor your group or organization members or community for sending in ideas and actions. Be part of a Power Group and be recognized.
11. Your group or group members may work with
people in the community and serve as a mentors to help others send in ideas and action to the I4I
website. For Mentor information, Click Here.
12. Your group or organization may want to be a donor or sponsor of I4I.
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