Be the CHANGE. Get Involved.
Note: All below initiatives, as well as approved alternatives, can qualify for Community Service Hours, as needed. See HERE for more details.
1. Initiate Your Own Tabling Event
Tabling is a fun and easy way to support the cause by collecting signatures and raising awareness. Hunter’s Fund will support you by sending you a free set-up kit including a banner, posters, pledge cards, wrist bands in your school colors, “I pledged” stickers and a “how to” guide. See samples HERE.
Set up in areas of high visibility such as campus quads, libraries, dining halls and advertise on relevant social media platforms to build awareness. Consider tabling during events, orientation weekend, club nights and other special occasions where high turn out is expected. Donations are also encouraged while tabling and can be accepted via Venmo; however donations are not required to make a pledge. See other tabling tips HERE.
The goal is to help students have better tools to not drive distracted and collect as many pledges as possible. In one day, the average commitment for one table can be as high as 480 people. That is 480 potential lives saved.
Earn Community Service Hours for those working on this Event HERE.
2. Peer-to-Peer Campaign
A peer-to-peer campaign is a great way to bring the entire club, fraternity, class or even your friends at a dinner gathering together for a single purpose. It can be the first step in building support for a successful tabling event and a valuable way to connect to your family and friends.
It only takes a couple minutes for one person/club/organization to set up a personal page and from there invite their friends and relatives to make donations. Individual pages can also merge into teams to fund-raise collectively. Hunter’s fraternity, Phi Kappa Psi, uses this proven social media platform to bring brothers together to achieve an important objective.
3. Host a Candlelight Vigil
Coming together as a community to remember and reflect upon the lost lives of those we love is powerful and healing. It provides a quiet and safe place to gather and support each other. Too many people have lost their lives to distracted driving and this can be an important way to honor their memory and come together.
Hunter’s fraternity, Phi Kappa Psi, hosts an annual campus wide candlelight vigil the night before tabling day as well as at the beginning of Safe Driving Week to set the tone for the importance of the work ahead. . This also allows everyone to remember all those who have been lost and those whose lives have been otherwise touched by distracted driving.
Hunter’s Fund can supply candles and campus posters. Contact the Team for additional help to organize your candlelight vigil.
4. Host a Letter Writing Fundraiser
The power of numbers can create ripple of change throughout a community and beyond. The letter writing campaign expands your pledge campaign beyond campus by asking friends and relatives to sign and return their own Pledge Not to Drive Distracted.
The Hunter’s Fund will supply you with a start-up kit, including pre-printed letters, envelopes, postage stamps and specific “how-to” instructions. After the letters are addressed, collect all the envelopes, affix the provided stamp, deposit them in the mail and submit a brief completion form to the Hunter’s Fund Team.
5. Host a Guest Speaker
Many students find that inspiration for change can from both inside and outside their immediate environment. Every community, campus, family and individual has a story of change. Change is not easy and sustained behavior change is a life’s work. Find a guest speaker to inspire and uplift your audience to make change.
Suggested speakers could be your local law enforcement agency or found at www.EndDD.org, a network of hundreds of trained volunteer speakers founded by Joel Feldman. If you are interested in having a guest speaker join your class, meeting or event, you can reach out to EndDD.org.
6. Create a Birthday Fundraiser
What better way to celebrate than to bring people together to contribute to a good cause?
For your upcoming birthday we hope you will consider a Facebook fundraiser for Hunter’s Fund, which is doing amazing work to help promising youth follow their dreams while raising awareness across the country about distracted driving.
In less than a minute you can help by volunteering to host your own Facebook birthday fundraiser below. As a volunteer, you will receive a special Certificate of Appreciation from Hunter’s Fund.
A message suggestion:“For my birthday this year, I'm asking for donations to Hunter's Fund. I've chosen this nonprofit because their mission means a lot to me, and I hope you'll consider contributing as a way to celebrate with me. Every little bit will help me reach my goal.”
7. Growing University Partnerships
Is your university or club part of the Hunter’s Fund network? Are you willing to help educate your friends and family about the importance of safe driving? Will you sign a pledge and/or make a donation to help work towards a safer community?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, reach out to learn more about the importance and benefits of partnering.