Support Action Alliance for Children

For more than 30 years, Action Alliance for Children has been building, supporting, informing and documenting advocacy efforts on behalf of children and families in California. Consider this:

• A researcher from the Harvard School of Public health calls to get more information about programs profiled in our Successful Strategies for Children's Health booklet.

• The coordinator of a unit in the Monterey County Department of Social Services writes us a letter complimenting us on "an exceptional forum." He writes, "The substance of the forum was mostly new to me, so it has been exciting to bring the pieces back to our staff."

• A former welfare recipient in Oakland, now working for a children's agency, reads a Grassroots Snapshot article from the Children's Advocate profiling the Welfare Reform Coalition of Los Angeles and is now taking steps to assist with organizing efforts in Alameda County.

As the publisher of the award-winning Children's Advocate bimonthly newspaper, we listen and speak to those committed to the healthy development of all children in our diverse state. Our conferences bring together service providers, advocates, and policymakers working on children's issues. Our web site archives policy articles difficult to find anywhere else. We are becoming an online information clearinghouse and community.

Our relationship network spans from San Diego to Eureka, from children's health to child care, from primary education to foster care, from grassroots activists to state legislators. We are uniquely positioned to document, validate, inform and support the growing advocacy movement for young children in California.

For those that care about community, California, and our collective future, we welcome your support of Action Alliance for Children and the children's advocacy movement.

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The AAC Annual Fund

This program allows us to improve our reporting depth and breadth, diversify and enlarge our distribution, and explore potential collaborations to better serve the needs of children in California. For example:

• $1,000 funds the work of our reporters for an issue. Our reporters are passionate about writing stories that explore the real impact of various children's policy issues on real people, in real communities. Our internship program supports developing journalists interested in children's policy work. Help us support our quality writers.

• $700 allows us to distribute 1,000 additional copies to new audiences and connect new people with the children's advocacy movement. Help us spread the word.

• $350 covers the cost of Spanish translation and editing services of featured articles. Help us include everyone.

• $100 assists us with the purchase of graphics and photos that enhance the readability of our paper. Help us continuously improve our publications.

Our giving and acknowledgment levels are as follows:

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Corporate Sponsorship

There's a bunch of buzz around B2B (Business to Business) this or that. What about B2C, with C being community? Over the past 30 years, Action Alliance for Children has been building, connecting, supporting, informing and documenting the advocacy effort and its growing community in order to encourage investment in all California's children. The value of positive community relations around issues related to the needs of children in California cannot be underestimated -- from the perspective of your organizational employee relations and morale to a bottom-line marketing agenda -- good work in the community pays dividends. And we believe there is no more important work than investing in the children of California. Sponsorship options include the following:

• Forum/Conference Sponsorship: On a regular basis, Action Alliance for Children brings together a unique blend of children's service providers and advocates, grassroots organizers and policy makers. You are invited to join this effort. Your gift of $1,000 or more supports our forums and includes acknowledgment in all materials and media opportunities.

• Newspaper Expanded Distributions: The Children's Advocate frequently produces special-themed issues of particular interest to a profession, an industry, membership organization. For example, an issue focused on pediatric practices and child development was mailed to nearly 5,000 pediatricians in California. Kaiser Permanente supported that distribution. We have similar opportunities with PTA chapters, child care providers, educators and state legislators. Your gift of $3,500 or more helps distribute 5,000 copies of the Children's Advocate to such audiences.

Our giving and acknowledgment levels are as follows:

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Workplace Giving

• Inquire at your company about corporate matching possibilities.

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Internet Options

(through PayPal's secure server)

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Shopping and Giving

Go shopping nearly anywhere, buying anything from airplane tickets to groceries—and if you register your credit card with E-scrip, listing Action Alliance for Children (E-scrip ID # 3691837) as your charity, we'll receive a contribution. Call us or go to www.escripinc.com and click on "sign up."

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Questions?

• Need a pledge card? Contact us and we'll send you one.

• Got stock? We have an account at Charles Schwab. Contact us for more information.

• Want to ask about planned giving? Contact us for details.

• Requests for anonymity will be respected.

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Action Alliance
for Children
e-mail aac@4children.org
1201 Martin Luther
King Jr. Way
Oakland, CA 94612
(510) 444-7136