National Community Planning Month Media Kit

Promote your National Community Planning Month events to residents, elected officials, and the media. Below are a few materials to help with your promotion efforts.

Sample Proclamations for Local Use

Click here for a sample proclamation in multiple formats

Click here to download a logo

Color poster (with cropping marks)

Black and white (with cropping marks)

Radio Public Service Announcements (Members Only)

15- and 30-second Live Read Radio PSAs

PowerPoint: Placing Planning PSAs for National Community Planning Month

Planning PowerPoint Presentations

The PowerPoint presentations help provide a general overview of planning and the planning profession. Both presentations have openings for you to insert information and photos related to your community. Suggested talking points are included in the notes section of each presentation.

Click here for a general PowerPoint presentation about planning
For use at community meetings, forums or other events to help provide a general overview of planning.

Click here for a student PowerPoint presentation about planning
For use when discussing planning and a possible career as a planner.

Graphics

Click here to download a logo

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Tips from APA's Communications Guide

The Planners' Communications Guide offers tips and techniques for creating, targeting, and reaching the media and your target audiences. Below are suggested sections you should review as you prepare your National Community Planning Month materials:

Target your National Community Planning Month messages to a specific audience:
Section 2: Message Basics
Section 7: Public Participation

Use National Community Planning Month to build greater support for planning in your community among elected officials:
Section 3: Politics and Planning

Move outside of your comfort zone and try a new way to communicate about planning during National Community Planning Month:
Section 4: Everyday Encounters

Reach out to and work with potential allies and collaborators during National Community Planning Month:
Section 6: Allies & Partnerships

Create useful media materials, "pitch" your National Community Planning Month story, and give a successful media interview:
Section 8: Media Relations
Section 10.5: Appendices, Media Interview Preparation Materials

Go online. Use websites and online communications to promote National Community Planning Month:
Section 9: E-Communications

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