Organize and Educate
Steps You Can Take to Raise Standards and Quality of Life in Your Community
Organize in Your Community and Promote Consumer Education
Form associations with the locally-owned and operated businesses in your community. Determine and implement the best strategies to educate consumers in the area about the important reasons to support locally-owned businesses in the community, as well as the arts and educational institutions that are part of the community identity.
Inform Others About Texas Community Advocate
Discuss the benefits of local ownership with others in your community. Tell them about the Texas Community Advocate website, TexasCulture.org, and ask them to tell others. Also, include a link to the TCA website [http://www.texasculture.org] in your emails with the description Texas Community Advocate - Positive Action for Texas Communities, or Texas Community Advocate - Local Solutions to National Problems.
Plan a Community Gift Giving Event in Your Community
Set a positive example each holiday season by holding a community gift giving fair to feature unique gift ideas from the community, such as membership to a local museum, or the book of a local author. Invite local merchants and artists to take part in the unique opportunity to diversify the interests of community members.
Recommend TCA Public Service Messages for Local Media
Texas Community Advocate will supply recorded public service messages to media throughout Texas. If you know of media in your area that you believe should receive these important messages as they are produced, please provide their name and contact information to us.
Support the Texas Community Advocate Mission
Texas Community Advocate plans to expand to provide nationwide service within about two years with national public service messages and informational resources on line at www.communityadvocate.org. Your support of this effort will make a valuable difference in the reach and impact of this critical community advocacy campaign.
Organize a Community Effort to Help a Struggling Business Owner
Sometimes a coat of paint or a little cleaning and trimming can make a local business appeal more to the local community, but owners that fall behind or aren't in excellent health may not be able to make the improvements. Organize a group from the community with realistic goals and talk with the owner about your ideas.
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Organize and Educate
Steps You Can Take to Raise Standards and Quality of Life in Your Community
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Community Gift Giving
A Model Program for Holiday Initiatives to Support Local Artists, Authors, Organizations and Businesses
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Resource Downloads
Weblinks and Printable Posters to Inform Community Members About the Benefits of Local Ownership
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Sol Communities
Resources to Preserve the Distinctive Cultures and Identities of Texas Communities
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Additional Resources
Successful Community Principles, Diverse Cultural Histories, Community Forums, and More
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