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The Posters
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Second Poster Campaign Reaches 18 States!
| AZ | Choices AZ Inc, Prescott | IN | Affordable Housing Corporation, Marion |
| AZ | Scottsdale Area Association of Realtors, Scottsdale | KS | Tenants to Homeowners Inc, Lawrence |
| AZ | City of Sedona | MA | Lexington Housing Partnership, Lexington |
| CA | Housing Leadership Council of San Mateo County, San Francisco | MD | City of Bowie |
| CA | County of Sonoma, Santa Rosa | MI | GA Haan Development, Harbor Springs |
| CO | Douglas County Community Development, Castle Rock | MN | Greater Twin Cities United Way, Minneapolis |
| CO | Golden Urban Renewal Authority | MO | Missouri Deptpartment Economic Development, Jefferson City |
| CO | Gunnison County Housing Authority, Gunnison | MO | FOCUS St Louis |
| DC | Washington Area Housing Partnership, Washington DC | OK | Delta Community Action Foundation Inc, Lindsey |
| FL | USDA Rural Development, Marianna | RI | Naragansett Housing Authority |
| FL | Sarasota County, Sarasota | TN | City of Clarksville |
| IL | Town of Normal | UT | HUD, Salt Lake City |
| IN | Indiana Housing & Community Development Authority, Indianapolis | WA | Community Housing Coalition, Bainbridge Island |
Using a series of 4 posters, and distributing to nearly 800 locations in Northern Colorado's Weld and Larimer Counties at 4 different times over a 2-year period, the posters highlight a teacher, a health care worker, a firefighter, and an administrative professional -- occupations vital to our communities and people important to all of us.
The biggest improvement to this campaign versus the one in 2002, is the ability to share it with other affordable housing advocates at virtually no cost. The artwork and royalty-free photos are packaged onto a cd in several file formats. With a simple agreement not to misuse its intent, these cds have shipped to 26 organizations (18 states) to personalize, print and distribute. We even provide all the posters in Spanish! And the requests keep coming.....
We cannot thank enough all those involved who made this campaign stretch from California to Indiana! The National and Local Boards of Realtors covered the printing costs, 4 citizens volunteered to pose for the photos, and the City's Affordable Housing staff designed and distributed.
What's New…
We're using many similar strategies in conducting this campaign. See the 2002 Faces and Places of Affordable Housing campaign for all the detailed info you'd ever want (and more). This go-round, however, we'll have Spanish-version posters to be used where they're most effective. We also dropped the contentious funding sponsorship logos and made the campaign more generic by mentioning "an informal cooperative" for sponsorship. We are grateful to City of Fort Collins staffers for production efforts, and the National Association of REALTORS and our Northern Colorado local Boards of REALTORS for providing major funding.
The most exciting news is that we used local subjects for the new posters! That means that you don't have to worry about expenses and copyrighted material in reproducing this product to meet your specific needs. Have at it! --- after you've signed our "Scout's Honor" Users Agreement. We'd like to think your cooperation protects things we value, and the intention and integrity of this public awareness tool. We also have translated the posters into Spanish.
Lastly, because we have our real jobs to do, we still won't be able to invest any time, energy, or money in doing any quantifying research regarding the communications or marketing effectiveness of this all. We'll have to stick with the continued good anecdotal feedback we've already been getting. If anybody out there's game for tackling this aspect of things, be our guest - and let us know what you find out!
How to Create Your Own Posters
Download, read, complete and fax the Users Agreement to us. (The agreement is in MS Word.) Then we will mail you a CD containing all the digital files, even the Spanish versions. It's that simple.
To keep printing costs at a minimum, we decided to use only 2 ink colors and the same paper for all 4 posters. We also kept costs down by printing all 4 posters at the same time, so the press was only inked once.
| Printer Specs | Digital Specs (contained on the CD) |
| Finished Size: 11" x 17" (no bleeds) | Digital Formats: fh, ai, eps, psd, and pdf |
| Paper: Any standard white gloss cardstock (10-12 pt) | Photos: Duotoned eps files |
| Inks: Black and PMS 1355 | Fonts: Americana, Verdana and Arial |
For More Information
Please feel free to contact us with comments or questions. Please note this information was compiled in May 2004, pricing from vendors and links to outside sources are subject to change.