During the Awareness Week, continue to work full force with the media to gather as many participants as possible for the events. Please see the sample press release we have included as a guide. It is helpful to be creative in advertising your activities. Some suggestions might be bookmarks, door hangers, posters, or even t-shirts. The graphics department at a local school may be willing to help you create flyers and posters for the events and fact sheets with information about hunger and homelessness.
Email can be a great reminder as the week comes closer.
Another idea for publicity, which is inexpensive and effective, is to enlist students or residents to announce the Awareness Week and events to their classes or at work. Professors and employers are usually very supportive of this idea and should not mind giving one to two minutes of class time to promote National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week. Also, using chalkings on campus helps to alert a large number of people to your events. NCH might be able to provide you with some publicity support as well.