There are 2 different ways that your organization might consider getting involved in Reverse Trick-or-Treating: (1) Participate as a group by placing a large order for cards and distributing sets of 20 cards at an event or meeting to individual schoolchildren who will be Reverse Trick-or-Treating or (2) Send an email to your constituency, inviting them to order Reverse Trick-or-Treating kits individually.
Benefits for your school/congregation/youth group/local organization:
- A fun way to engage your constituency in taking action and making a difference, especially elementary school children and their families!
- An exceptional opportunity to attract media attention, by inviting television, radio and print journalists to trail children from your constituency when they go Reverse Trick-or-Treating on Halloween.
- Tremendous social justice impact for Fair Trade cocoa growing communities.
We will ask you to: - Recruit children among your group to participate, using emails, flyers, in-person sign-up, etc.
- If you are participating as a group, order the number of cards that you think children affiliated with your group can distribute.
- (Optional): Outreach to your media contacts in the lead-up to Halloween using press releases and media advisories prepared by the Reverse Trick-or-Treating central organizers, including substantive information on the problems in the cocoa industry.
We will provide:
- Model emails, press releases, and all the materials you will need to participate!
- Reverse Trick-or-Treating chocolate and cards free of charge to your constituency (your school/congregation/youth group/etc pays only the cost of postage)
We are pleased to announce that Global Exchange is introducing a new program this year: Fair Trade Holiday Caroling. We recently completed a holiday songwriting contest, and a holiday songlist including very clever, original Fair Trade carols for the carolers to sing will be available soon! To receive information on Fair Trade Holiday Caroling, sign up on our Fair Trade-National listserv at www.globalexchange.org/subscribe or send an email with "Holiday Caroling" in the subject line to fairtrade@globalexchange.org. We look forward to working with you!
The Global Exchange Fair Trade Team
