Creative Ideas for Using Recruiter Tool Kit
From AFSWiki
• Sticker Downtown Naperville vacant store fronts.
• Give stickers to people checking out books in library.
• Use those great labels with modifications to be return address labels.
• Give it to someone new to try a new way to find a host family.
• I am willing to do mini-presentations and will talk to other area volunteers for suggestions
• Hanging the banners in Starbucks.
• Using the CD on laptop at different classes and bring the bag on travel.
• Carry during shopping trips for more exposure and to start AFS conversations.
• Create a display for Volunteer Recognition Event.
• Post the PR materials in places I usually visit.
• Use toolkit at public events and have brochures ready to pass out.
• Hang the poster at the library or church.
• Use at marketplace at conferences.
• Using the stickers for current students and siblings to wear at school or events.
• Show CD to people at booth.
• Give the messenger bag away as a prize.
• Put AFS hosting flyers in the high school newspaper as inserts.
• School activity fairs and community days.
• New places to hang tear flyer.
• Use it to repair AFS student bicycles.
• Put tear-off poster in church foyers.
• Putting the new sign with the tear off tabs in guidance offices.
• Laptop cases, toiletries holder, backpack, hosting beach bag.
• Wear the kit everywhere, put the tear sheet up everywhere I find space.
• Share pieces of it.
• Using the great tote bag on my travels as an advert.
• Just carry bag to show AFS insignia.
• Post flyers around Washington.
• Using the items in displays at various businesses.
• Passing it along to all the current hosting families in my chapter.
• Keep the toolkit replenished and pass it along from person to person.
• Use it so people can see it.
• Wear/carry it and people will notice it.
• AFS article targeting Native Americans.
• Sharing it with non-AFS'ers, so they see how organized and serious we are.
• Gift it to your chapter-divide up its contents with a specific assignment for each volunteer to do with each item
• Use in a library display.
• Suggest to new volunteers to have a "home party" to introduce potential host families to AFS.
• Scan some of the materials and incorporate them into emails. Send electronic versions to high school newspapers.
• One pen to each person who signs up to "volunteer" for a day with AFS.
• Give posters to foreign language teachers with a cover letter if personal contact is not possible. Provide thank you gifts if any leads are generated.
• Writing a letter to school language and social studies teachers, and sending flyers for student access.
• Keep it ready with forms for info activities, name tags, sign-up sheets, tape, pens, and paper too.
• Using the bag for all AFS promotional events to raise awareness. Show the DVD and pass out posters.
• Selling cookies with AFS written on them at community events along with giving out information material.
• Carry it everywhere.
• School presentation.
• Visit some scouting clubs.
• Put posters up on YMCA Bulletin Boards.
• Add to it an online way to order more of any of the materials.
