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

News Release Template

Click here for a news release template to promote your National Community Planning Month event.

Download a logo

Download a color poster

Download a black and white poster

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.

Public Service Announcements

APA has created recorded and live-read public service announcements (PSAs) to celebrate the importance of planning this October.

Click here to hear APA's recorded public service announcements

Click here for information about the topics referenced in APA's PSAs

Click here for the live-read PSA scripts (Members Only)

Click here to learn how to place a planning PSA on the radio (ppt) (Members Only)

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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