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Publicity for
“Sift the Sand”
Microplastics Cleanup
Albany Landfill Dog Owners Group
Albany Beach
October 8, 2017
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Coastal Cleanup Demo
At the Coastal Cleanup in September we demo-ed the sifting technique, at the request of The Watershed Project (which organizes Coastal Cleanup on Albany Beach). Our event flyer was blown up to poster size and mounted on a sandwich board to help generate interest in “Sift the Sand.”
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EBRPD Website & News Release
East Bay Regional Park District collaborated with us on the event. The park district issued a news release to help us get volunteers and publicized the event on its website. (The woman pictured below is Peggy McQuaid, the mayor of Albany, who allowed us to use her photo in our publicity.)
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News Coverage
Bay Area News Group picked up the EBRPD release and ran stories in the East Bay Times and San Jose Mercury News.
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Event Flyer & Poster
The City of Albany’s environmental team let us post our flyers on their recycling kiosks on Solano Avenue in Albany. We also posted at the Albany waterfront, on bulletin boards at Point Isabel Regional Shoreline, and at Albany Public Library. Poster-size flyers on sandwich boards at the Albany waterfront helped volunteers find the location on the day of the event.
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Dog Group Newsletter
We made “Sift the Sand” the cover story in the summer issue of The PIDO Pointer, which was mailed to approximately 3,000 recipients, and available to public in dispensers at Point Isabel Regional Shoreline, and at business locations of newsletter advertisers
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PIDO & ALDOG Websites
We promoted the event on the Point Isabel Dog Owners and Albany Landfill Dog Owners Group websites, including featuring the story as one of the PIDO website’s “Dog Blog” posts.
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Nextdoor Events Calendar
We posted the event in the Nextdoor calendar, reaching neighborhoods from Berkeley to Richmond.
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Facebook Event Publicity
We publicized the event on Facebook in multiple groups with combined memberships of approximately 2,500 people. It was shared beyond those, including by news groups (see examples below).
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Facebook Boosted Posts
We boosted selected posts on Facebook and reached nearly 5,000 people.
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Email Blasts We emailed to our Albany Beach cleanups volunteers email list (approximately 135 people), to ALDOG’s regular email list (approximately 1,400 people), and to PIDO’s regular email list (approximately 1,200 people).
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Twitter We tweeted about the event, as did the EBRPD and others.
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Cleanup Meetup (meetup.com)
We publicized the event on Meetup, which has a group – Cleanup Meetup – specifically dedicated to cleanups. (ALDOG is a member of Cleanup Meetup, whose members participate at our regular beach cleanups.)
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VolunteerMatch
We listed our event in VolunteerMatch (as Point Isabel Dog Owners because PIDO, ALDOG’s fiscal sponsor, is the 501(c)(3) nonprofit).
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Evite
We created evites for participants who signed up, some of whom then invited others. (Evite made it easy for us to reach both shifts of volunteers with reminders and new information.)
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Event Signage
Day-of-event signage thanked our sponsors: ACCWP (grant monies); Sea Turtles Forever (mentoring, training, onsite supervision); EBRPD (event publicity and support); The Watershed Project (equipment, publicity, sign-in volunteer); Albany Community Foundation (lunch for volunteers); and Trader Joe’s – El Cerrito (refreshments). We included St. Mary’s College High School because their student-led social activism group sent us more than a dozen students and was so great to work with.
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Post-event Slide Show (Facebook)
We created a slide show on ALDOG’s Facebook page to tell the story: how ALDOG became aware of the plastics problem, connected with Sea Turtles Forever to learn about sifting plastics out of the sand and, with the help of an Alameda Countywide Clean Water Program grant, organized 115 volunteers to remove 2,440 pounds of debris in just six hours.
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Post-event Video
The post-event video on ALDOG’s Facebook page has reached more than 8,000 people on Facebook and has been viewed by nearly 4,000.