The coalition provides a place for staff to combine resources and share information. Representatives meet quarterly as a group and also participate in one of three subcommittees. A newspaper subcommittee drafts articles. A television subcommittee is discussing how to break into television air-time. At the coalition s quarterly meetings, the subcommittees share their materials with the group, and all group members leave meetings with a packet of new materials they can use in information and education efforts.
Initiative is the first requirement.
Next are some very practical steps. Organizations with similar concerns are invited to participate. Letterhead and envelopes bearing the coalition s name are printed. Johnson provided the coalition a place to meet and an address for coalition mailings. Then people took responsibility for tasks.