When the AD recruiters put on a recruiting drive, they usually have pencils, bottles, etc. to handout. Here are your questions:
1. Does anybody try to employ this tactic?
2. Has anybody seen anything of the sort, with CAP on it?
3. If so, what was it?
4. Do you try to pass out anything, other than the brochures?
I'm recruiting at one of our local middle schools tomorrow and while I was gathering my supplies, I thought of needing something to pass out to the students. I know it's too late for this school, but I have 3 other middle schools to recruit at. So any help would be greatly appreciated.
Please keep this thread civilized and on track with positive comments.
Thank you.
http://www.cadetstuff.org/archives/p000115.html (http://www.cadetstuff.org/archives/p000115.html)
Here's what I use from CadetStuff. Just replace the text with your own info.
Those are good ones jeders, and there are also a couple on the Next Step CD that cadets have, that I use.
Also, one thing that I do when I recruit is that I have LOTS of pictures handy. I am in Junior High myself and that is one of the things that makes my friends want to join - pictures. I had about 10-15 pictures of my recent O-flights today at school and I may have as many as 10 people visiting in the next couple of weeks. Also, sometimes I know that school newspapers have been known to print up articles about CAP. My school is having a article printed up about it this week and a whole page in the yearbook about me and the Civil Air Patrol. There are so many creative ways to recruit it is unbelievable. My only suggestion is that you put yourself back in Middle School and use whatever you think would be attractive when you were that age. ;D
There are the paper airplane cut outs with CAP symbology on them. I think they're AE products.
Quote from: RiverAux on October 29, 2007, 10:07:52 PM
There are the paper airplane cut outs with CAP symbology on them. I think they're AE products.
They are attached to the CAP Fact Sheet that national used to send out. I don't think that it is still available with the recruiting material.
I've been ordering fact sheets for years and never had the planes come wtih them and never even seem them as an option on the recruiting materials order page. An AE guy ordered some about a year ago that we used at an airshow. They must be around somewhere.
At one time CAP gave out a plastic holder with a oil change/lube date card inside. I just sent one to CAPHISTORIAN who pops up on this Board. Maybe he can get a photo. The holder was small enough and had a foam/adhesive backing so it would mount next to a car door to remind someone when their oil change was due. I got a bunch from National and put them in jars at the Chevy and Ford dealers.
I think general doo-dad handouts (pens, pencils, etc.) are probably a bit beyond CAP's budget and I'm not sure they would be worth the cost.
The fact sheet with the glider says "CAPNHQ/v.24 JUNE 05" at the bottom.
I'll scan a copy of it and post it.
At a National Board meeting, they handed out pencils. The cost is not that much when only given out at special events. It would be beyond the budge to make them available to all Squadrons as handouts.
Looks like I'll have to post the glider one page at a time.
This page is printed on the front side.
This is the back side.
Thats certainly the airplane I was talking about, but I've never seen it combined with the factsheet. Every fact sheet I've ever gotten for the last 10 years has been on regular paper while the airplane was on some harder construction-paper like material.
I actually have the same version fact sheet as you cited and it was just plain paper. I think someone locally probably took the AE airplane piece and photocopied the CAP fact sheet onto the back of it.
It's one thick sheet, 17 x 11 basically folded in half. On one large side it has the fact sheet and the back side of the plane and on the opposite large side it has the plane instructions with the front side of the plane.
If it came from someplace locally, it definitely did not come from my squadron.
All together it looks nice; fun thing for the kids I guess...
If anyone wants a few copies of it I can mail it to you, just PM me. I have a bunch of them.
When we do recruiting the first person we go and see is the DDR officer. She is very capable of getting CAP branded/DDR Branded items to hand out to potential members. She gets us:
1) Water Bottles
2) Stress Balls
3) Pencils/Pens
4) Balsa wood airplanes
5) Carri beaners
6) Erasers
7) Rulers
and some other stuff. But we hand out LOADS of these kind of things. So I guess you could say that we employ the techniques of the AD recruiters. Even if you don't get everyone as a recruit you have still helped to build AWARENESS of CAP in your area, which in some cases is just as important.
From my understanding there is a catalog for DDR/CAP stuff if you need that sort of thing, however, I don't know where - perhaps one of our DDR officers can chime in here.
Jimmy,
You beat me to it. Yes, there are loads of things that you can get from DDR. IIRC all you have to pay for is the shipping. There is a catalog of things to choose from. I'll see if I can dig up a copy of it.
I've found that new members are very interested in copies of the Volunteer magazine. Only trouble is getting enough copies to distribute.
Quote from: Cecil DP on October 30, 2007, 08:35:20 PM
I've found that new members are very interested in copies of the Volunteer magazine. Only trouble is getting enough copies to distribute.
All you need to do is call national and they'll send you a bunch. We asked for some and they sent 2 cases...
Is it really appropriate to use DDR items for recruiting? It you're in an area where DDR applies then the argument could be made, but if you're like most cadet squadrons and outside the DDR envelope, I'm not sure that would be the way to go.
Quote from: RiverAux on October 30, 2007, 10:34:40 PM
Is it really appropriate to use DDR items for recruiting? It you're in an area where DDR applies then the argument could be made, but if you're like most cadet squadrons and outside the DDR envelope, I'm not sure that would be the way to go.
Last week at our meeting we had a DDR class and we discussed drugs in school and how much is present. After listening to them, it is very appropriate to utilize DDR items for recruiting in schools.
Myself and our Chaplain meet with the principal this morning. Gave her a few brochures and posters to look over and she is fired up about CAP. She was going to give the brochures and posters to her science teachers to show to their students. We have a date scheduled to go back during the lunch period and set-up a recruiting table.
Three more middle schools to contact and we will be in business!!
We're building paper rockets at the North Florida Fair next week.....then inviting kids to come to Open House to launch them. While the design we're using is slghtly different (and low-pressure, without ballast in the nose cone other than maybe a small piece of modeling clay and correspondingly lighter construction without all the packing tape reinforcement), it is similar to http://www.spaceed.org/seiclassroom/cappdf/air_rocketry.pdf
Of course, the rockets are being printed with our name and logo on them. You can see videos of them at youtube but being on a work computer right now, I can't go find you a link.
Here is the page explaining how to get DDR items
http://www.cap.gov/visitors/members/drug_demand_reduction/budget_process/
Here is the catalog
http://www.cap.gov/visitors/members/drug_demand_reduction/index.cfm?nodeID=6774&audienceID=4
Remember, when requesting DDR items the activity needs to have a DDR Connection, and that these need to be approved at wing level (both Wing DDR Administrator and Wing Commander) and reviewed by the Region DDR Coordinator.
Always remember that whenever 2 or more people discuss DDR at one time (including things like conference calls) to submit an Activity Report, they count as DDR activities, which helps you in attaining a rating under the DDR specialty track.
If anyone has questions about the above, feel free to contact me, if I don't know the answer, I'll find someone who does.