Living On One and Indieflix present
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Living On One and Indieflix present
Living On One and Indieflix present Table of Contents Planning Your Event Outreach Calendar 2-3 Advertising Your Screening 4 Fundraising Ideas 5 Screening Checklist 6 Connect with Living On One Online 7 Engage Your Audience After the Film For Middle School Students 8-10 For High School Students 11-13 For College Students 14-16 For an Adult, Church or Community Audience 17-19 Printable Materials Pledge Card 20 Additional Ticket Sales Log 21 Make an Impact and Fundraise for Our On-the-Ground Partners 22 Resources to Help You Pursue Your Passion to Make a Difference 23 livingonone.org | [email protected] 1 PLANNING YOUR EVENT 1. Outreach Calendar To Do Now • Post the event on your website, Facebook page and local community calendars. Include a link to the Living on One Facebook page (facebook.com/livingonone) and website (livingonone.org) to help others learn more and to watch the film trailer before the event. Be sure to include your online ticket sales link if selling tickets as well. S a m p l e Fa c e b o o k o r w e b s i t e p o s t s : • Join us on __date__ for a screening of the unique documentary, Living on One Dollar, at __location__. The film follows four college students who left their homes in the U.S. to live on just $1 a day for two months in a rural Guatemalan village. $56 for 56 days, how would you survive? Watch the trailer at www.livingonone.org/film and get your tickets here __ticketlink__ ! • Exciting News! __your organization/school__ will be hosting young filmmakers, Zach and Chris, and a screening of their documentary, Living on One Dollar, on __date__ in the __location__ theater. The film follows their journey living on just $1 a day for two months in a rural Guatemalan village. Watch the trailer at www.livingonone.org/film and join us on __date__ to meet the filmmakers! • Take advantage of the “Promote” section on the Living on One Dollar Film page to find posters and a sample press release to help you get the word out. Find materials here: www.livingonone.org/film • Reach out to local press contacts in the area • Send an email out to all contacts at your school or organization • Identify facilitator/s for your event and provide their name to IndieFlix • Organize volunteers to help with outreach and logistics before the event and for at-the-door ticket sales the night of the event (see log at the end of this packet) livingonone.org | [email protected] 2 PLANNING YOUR EVENT 1. Outreach Calendar (continued) Three Weeks Before Your Event • Send out notifications about your event to school and/or community • Send out postcards, put them in your kidsʼ backpacks, put them in local cafes, libraries, and public venues One - Two Weeks Before Your Event • Send out additional press releases and respond to any incoming press inquiries • Facilitator: Read this screening packet and prepare for a conference call with the Living on One team the Thursday before your event. • Send a reminder email out to your school or organization • Test the DVD on the projection system/DVD player you will use at the event. Test any microphones or additional equipment needed for the event The Day Before the Event • Send a reminder email to those who are attending • Test the DVD player and microphones again • Check in with your volunteers to make sure they are available to collect tickets and payment at the event, print out Day-of-Event Ticket Sales Log livingonone.org | [email protected] 3 PLANNING YOUR EVENT 2. Advertising Your Screening Send out the press release provided by IndieFlix. Note: Please do not contact national press. Try to reach out specifically to local reporters, papers or bloggers covering Education, International Issues and Community Service Work Local Non-Profits and Service Groups: Adoption Agencies, Particularly Guatemalan Adoption Local or Global Microfinance Organizations Local Youth Groups and Teen Programs (YMCA) Local Library and Community Centers Local Press: School Newspapers Mommy Bloggers Local Newspapers Local Radio and TV Local Schools: Principals School Counselors PTA Heads Faculty Parents Students School Board and Superintendentʼs Office Local Colleges, Universities, and Community Colleges: Professors Admissions Offices Schools of Education Social Networking Sites: Facebook Twitter Local Blogs YouTube Instagram livingonone.org | [email protected] 4 PLANNING YOUR EVENT 3. Fundraising Ideas Here are some creative ways to help pay for your screening: • Use the screening as a fundraiser and sell tickets to the event. Ticket sales are split 50/50 with IndieFlix • Go to your local parent-teacher board • Go to your local community businesses to help underwrite the event and invite them to advertise for their businesses at the screening • Apply for a local school or film grant • Ask each person or student to put $1 a day in a jar for a week leading up to the event and bring this money with them as a donation livingonone.org | [email protected] 5 PLANNING YOUR EVENT 4. Screening Checklist Prior to Your Screening Date • Check DVD playback (both audio and video) in your system prior to the screening • Confirm there is a microphone available for the Q&A and/or post film discussion • Find volunteers to collect and sell tickets, answer questions, walk the microphone around the room for questions after the film, and take pictures and video during the Q&A. On The Day of The Screening If you have photos or video of the event, we would love to post them on our website (Livingonone. org) and Facebook (Facebook.com/livingonone) page to encourage other schools and organizations to host screenings as well! Please email them to [email protected] if you are willing to share them publicly. Read through the “Engage Your Audience After the Film” section which best applies to your audience. See following chapter in the Screener Packet for more details. Print off sections to help your audience engage with discussion questions and see www.livingonone.org/film under “Promote” to download printable resources and a fundraising one-pager. After The Event • Please return the event DVD to IndieFlix Inc. at 4111 E Madison Street #310 Seattle WA 98112 • If there is interest in an additional screening, please contact Ann Skrobut at [email protected] to discuss additional screenings • Thank you for supporting the film and its message livingonone.org | [email protected] 6 PLANNING YOUR EVENT 5. Connect with Living On One Online Be sure to inform your audience about the Living on One website, www.livingonone.org. There are tons of ways to interact and learn more on our site. You can also follow Living on One on Twitter and Facebook to stay up-to-date with our journey! www.livingonone.org www.facebook.com/livingonone www.twitter.com/livingonone livingonone.org | [email protected] 7 Engage Your Audience After the Film 1. For Middle School Students Learning Goals • Living on $1 a day does not mean that each person gets $1 every day to spend. $1 a day is an average and must be used to pay for everything, including your food, your home, your clothing, your kids’ education and your medicine when you get sick. • There is no single cause of poverty. Many solutions are needed to help address this problem but small changes can make a huge difference in the lives of the extreme poor. • Each one of us can make a difference for someone today, whether its in your own classroom, for your family, your community, or the world! • We are very lucky to have access to our basic human needs, like water, food, and a bed. • Having the chance to go to school is also an amazing opportunity that many people, like Chino, do not have. Discussion Questions • What is something important that you took away from this movie? • What surprised you about the lives of the poor? • What do you think would be that hardest thing for you, if you were living on $1 a day in that village? • What were some of the hardest things you saw in Chino’s life? • How did you feel when you saw that Chino wanted to go to school but his family didn’t have enough money to send him there? • What do you think Zach, Chris, Sean and Ryan learned by living on $1 a day themselves instead of just reading about it? • Did Zach, Chris, Sean and Ryan each get exactly $1 to spend every day? Why not? livingonone.org | [email protected] 8 Engage Your Audience After the Film 1. For Middle School Students (continued) Discussion Questions (continued) • Chino’s family couldn’t afford to send him to school, but Rosa was using the money from her weaving business to go to school, herself. What helped her start her business? • What is something in your life that you will no longer take for granted after watching this film? • What is one small thing you can do today to make a difference for someone around you? Extended Lesson • Learning Goal- Understand that there is not one single cause of poverty and that many solutions are needed that work together to address it. • Materials- Ask each student to bring $1 to class the day after the screening. • Discussion- Talk about three things they saw in the film that could help the people of Peña Blanca • A scholarship to help Chino go to school • A source of clean water so that Chris didn’t get sick • A microfinance loan that could help Rosa start her weaving business Ask each student to write a paragraph answering this question “If you only had one dollar to help someone get a scholarship, clean water, or a microfinance loan, what would you want to give your dollar to and why?” Teachers can then lead a discussion with the class asking which solution each student chose. A student choosing the scholarship may say, if you can’t go to school, how are you going to get a job? Thats why school is the most important. But, a student choosing clean water may say, if you are sick all the time, how are you going to go to school, even if you have a scholarship? A student choosing the microfinance loan may say, if you can start your own business, you can provide for your family and send your kids to school yourself! This discussion will help students understand that many solutions are needed and that by working together, they can create the most change. The class could then make a tangible difference by supporting one of the organizations we work with. See a downloadable one-page fundraising document at www.livingonone.org/film under “Promote”. livingonone.org | [email protected] 9 Engage Your Audience After the Film 1. For Middle School Students (continued) Additional Resources Printable Pledge Card [Find in “Printable Materials” section at the end of this packet] When we think about combating a problem like extreme poverty, it often seems too big. But we learned from Guatemala that small things can make a big impact. We saw that for Chino, having just $25 for the supplies to go to school would have changed his life. If each one of us decides to do one small thing, whether for someone around you or for someone in Guatemala, we can change the world together. What can you do to make a difference? • Example: This week, I will tell someone about Chino’s story to make a difference for people in poverty by raising awareness. • Example: This week, I will give $5 from my allowance to make a difference for kids like Chino to go to school. • Example: This school year, I will find a way to raise money for a microfinance loan to make a difference for a woman like Rosa. livingonone.org | [email protected] 10 Engage Your Audience After the Film 2. For High School Students Learning Goals • Small changes can have a huge impact in the lives of the extreme poor. Access to a microfinance loan is a great example of this. However, there is no one answer to poverty. We need many small partial solutions to make real change. • Experiential learning is where you put yourself in someone else’s shoes to better understand what their life is like rather than read or be told about it. This can be a great way to better understand an issue you are interested in and learn how to help. • Each person can make a difference in the world and it doesn’t have to be something big like travelling to Guatemala. You can find a way to use something you are passionate about or a special skill you have to make a difference in your community or in the world right now. Discussion Questions • What surprised you about the people living in extreme poverty? • What do the lives of Rosa, Anthony and Chino make you think about your own life? • What do you think were three of the hardest things for Zach, Chris, Sean and Ryan that could have kept them from going to Guatemala? • What do you think Zach, Chris, Sean and Ryan gained by living on $1 a day themselves in this community, instead of just reading about it? • Has anyone travelled before and felt a sense of reverse culture shock when coming home? • What is something in your life that you will no longer take for granted after watching this film? • After watching this film, why do you think that Chino, Rosa, and Anthony are still living in extreme poverty? What do you think are some of the things holding them back? • What other questions do you now have about poverty, microfinance, or the lives of people around the world? livingonone.org | [email protected] 11 Engage Your Audience After the Film 2. For High School Students (continued) Discussion Questions (continued) • What things do the people in Guatemala struggle with that you see people in the United States or in your own community struggling with as well? • What could you do to better understand some of these issues? And, how could you creatively share what you are learning with your classmates and with your community? Extended Lesson Learning Goal- Think critically about the many approaches to poverty alleviation and the importance of sustainable, long-term development. Notice three examples of poverty alleviation strategies from the film. • Education scholarships to help kids like Chino go to school • Source of clean water to prevent issues like Chris’ sickness • Microfinance loans like the one that helped Rosa start her weaving business We also note that there are many other poverty alleviation strategies, ranging from medical services, the availability of technology, immigration policies, food aid and industrialization. Ask each of your students to think about and write a short essay answering this question: “If you had one hundred million dollars to put towards solving poverty, what would you spend it on? It can include strategies that have already been tried or any new ideas you think would change the world. Be creative! How would you make the most impact for the extreme poor?” For a longer assignment, ask each student to back up their answer with research and discuss the long term effects of their “one hundred million dollar action”. Teachers can then lead a discussion with the class where each student must state the poverty alleviation solution they chose and defend why it will make the most impact. As students disagree about what the most pressing issues are and which solutions would make the most long-term change, they will better understand that there is no single cause of poverty nor one single “best” solution. livingonone.org | [email protected] 12 Engage Your Audience After the Film 2. For High School Students (continued) Extended Lesson (continued) If the class wants to make a tangible difference by supporting one of the solutions exemplified in the film, they could fundraise for one of the organizations we support who works directly in the village of Peña Blanca and in similar villages around the world. See our downloadable one-page fundraising document at www.livingonone.org/film under “Promote”. Alternative Assignment The Creative Activist Toolkit This free, online toolkit uses the story of Dan Eldon, a young photojournalist, activist and artist to help students discover something they are passionate about and think creatively about how to take action. “Change begins and ends with passionate individuals. Like Dan, we call them Creative Activists. This guide takes you step-by-step through the process of turning inspiration into action so that the world can be a better place because of you.” View the toolkit here: www.socialcreatives.org/the-creative-activist-toolkit/ livingonone.org | [email protected] 13 Engage Your Audience After the Film 3. For College Students Discussion Questions • Did anything surprise you about the lives of the extreme poor or about Zach, Chris, Sean and Ryan’s reception in the village? • Need-based development focuses on helping people secure immediate needs like food, clothing and shelter. Asset-based development tries to help people gain the skills, education and resources to bring themselves out of poverty. Were there times or people in Peña Blanca for whom each type of development would be an important solution? • In your opinion, which type of development is more effective overall? And why? • What are some of the biggest issues that people in Peña Blanca struggle with and are there any solutions you know of that could be implemented here? What kind of long-term impact would those changes have? • How could need-based solutions and asset-based development work together as a more holistic strategy to address the many factors that contribute to keeping people in extreme poverty? • What did you think of Zach, Chris, Sean and Ryan’s strategy to raise awareness about poverty? Was it effective? • Do you think that raising awareness through media translates into making a change in the world? Could it? • Empathy is sometimes defined as “the ability to understand and share the feelings of another”. What do you think empathy’s role in development is? • What do you see as the biggest obstacle to ending extreme poverty in this generation? • Do you believe that you have a place in addressing this issue and where do you think you can make the most impact? • For example, at Living on One, we create media that inspires people to take action and encourage everyone to support certain organizations like Whole Planet Foundation and Mayan Families, who we know are doing incredible on-the-ground work to change lives. Your impact could be in one of these on-the-ground organizations, in the inspiring of others to take action, in the policy-making or in your personal choices to give or travel more sustainably. All these things have to work together to make lasting change so think creatively about what your skills and passions are! livingonone.org | [email protected] 14 Engage Your Audience After the Film 3. For College Students (continued) How Our Story Started In College By Chris Temple Zach and I came into college with interests in travelling and international issues, but neither of us knew exactly what we wanted to do with our lives. In our first year at Claremont McKenna College, we took advantage of a school grant opportunity and attended a microfinance conference in Colombia. We spoke with anyone and everyone there, learned from some amazing people, and came home super inspired by the transformative power of microfinance. Back at school, we were full of ideas and searched for some way to get other people involved in microfinance too. We tried a few things, starting a microfinance club on campus, helping organize an online simulcast class, and even building a social network to connect with other students who were as passionate as we were. Surprisingly, our network began to grow, and within 6 months included students from over 150 universities around the world. Building our own project was exhilarating and pushed us to think of ways to scale and grow. One night during our sophomore year we came up with the crazy idea to go and explore microfinance firsthand and make short YouTube videos about our experience living in extreme poverty. We thought this would be a great way to spend the summer between sophomore and junior year doing something meaningful and exciting, even if only a few people watched the videos. Over the next 6 months, we developed the idea, wrote proposals and applied for funding from 10 different places. After lots of rejection, we finally got accepted by one and headed off to Guatemala. Our YouTube videos surprisingly began getting traction online and later reached over 600,000 views! After getting back, we decided to dedicate ourselves to this project and it began evolving and scaling, eventually becoming a feature film, a non-profit organization and a new career path but believe me, none of that was planned from the beginning! It would have been much harder to take the risks, make the connections, and develop the skills we needed had we not been in college when we started this project. Each professor and friend was a sounding board. Each class and conference an opportunity to network and learn. While it was sometimes a challenge to balance the fun and frequent distractions of college life with our project, starting Living on One in school set us up to move quickly after graduation, exceed people’s expectations, and wake up to a job everyday that we love to do. livingonone.org | [email protected] 15 Engage Your Audience After the Film 3. For College Students (continued) Join the Living on One Team Join us as a passionate group of young people who are using our own skills, dreams and experiences to inspire others to make a difference in our generation. We want to hear your story and to share it with the Living on One audience! • Become a guest blogger for the Living on One: No Limits Blog (see here livingonone.org/blog. html) by writing a 100-300 word post on what your dream for changing the world is and how you were inspired by Living on One. • Send posts to [email protected] with email title “Guest Blog” • Take a picture of your screening audience holding their hands up in an “L1” symbol in solidarity. Send your picture [email protected] with email title “Screening Audience”. We would love to post it on our social media! Additional Resources Have an idea you think will change the world, want to get involved in volunteering globally, or interested in learning more about microfinance? • Check out some of our favorite organizations and resources at www.livingonone.org and download a one-page listing from www.livingonone.org/film under “Promote” as a hand-out for your student community. Want to make a direct impact in Peña Blanca and in similar communities around the world? • Use our one-page fundraising guide found at www.livingonone.org/film under “Promote” to learn more about our on-the-ground partners and how you can make a difference with them. livingonone.org | [email protected] 16 Engage Your Audience After the Film 4. For an Adult, Church or Community Audience Discussion Questions • How did you see the many factors that contribute to extreme poverty combining to keep the people of Peña Blanca in this situation? • In what ways were you moved or affected by the lives of Anthony, Rosa and Chino in this film? • Need-based development focuses on helping people secure immediate needs like food, clothing and shelter. Asset-based development tries to help people gain the skills, education and resources to bring themselves out of poverty. Were there times or people in Peña Blanca for whom each type of development would be an important solution? Where do you think individual donors should focus their time and money? • Poverty exists both here in the U.S. as well as around the world. Where is your church or community group looking to make an impact? • What ways could you use experiential learning to better understand the needs of the people you are helping? • Is there a way you could creatively share, whether through media, art, photography or writing, your own journey to understand and to make an impact in the world? • How could you share not only your own journey but also the stories of the people you meet along the way? It is often their stories of resilience, generosity, and hope which will truly inspire others to join you in making a difference and encourage you to continue with this work. Learn More About Microfinance • A huge amount of research went into the creation of Living on One Dollar. We have consolidated many of our favorite resources to help you dive deeper into microfinance and sustainable development. Definitely check out “Portfolios of the Poor”, whose authors worked closely with us in developing our simulation! • Resources can be found here: www.LivingonOne.org/act.html livingonone.org | [email protected] 17 Engage Your Audience After the Film 4. For an Adult, Church or Community Audience Organizations We Work With That Are Changing Lives Whole Planet Foundation Our time living on $1 a day taught us that access to small loans and savings accounts, known as microfinance, can dramatically improve the lives of the extreme poor. We choose to raise money for Whole Planet Foundation, who works to alleviate poverty through microfinance in 54 countries around the world. What makes them a unique and outstanding foundation is that they take the time to vet all the local organizations they work with to make sure they are engaging in non-predatory and sustainable microfinance practices. They make sure borrowers, including the women in Peña Blanca, Guatemala come first. Right now, you can empower someone just like Rosa with a microfinance loan and savings account to improve her own life. Our partnership with Whole Planet Foundation allows 100% of your donation to go directly to borrowers both in the U.S. and abroad. • To make a difference today, visit www.livingonone.org and click “Give A Loan to Change A Life”. • We encourage you to consider not only making personal donations, but also routing a small percentage from your job or business to microfinance loans monthly. Mayan Families We initially found out about the small non-profit, Mayan Families, from our friend Anthony Solares who lives in Peña Blanca. From his recommendation, we saw that they were an organization whose staff was 80% Mayan and who truly understood the issues many rural Guatemalan families face every day. Their mission is to provide opportunities and assistance to the indigenous and impoverished people of Guatemala through education and community development programs. We encourage people to support their work and have seen the life-changing difference they are making in many villages, including Peña Blanca where they are providing school scholarships for many of the children, including Chino’s brothers and sister! • Learn more about Mayan Families and get involved here: www.mayanfamilies.org livingonone.org | [email protected] 18 Engage Your Audience After the Film 4. For an Adult, Church or Community Audience Share Your Story We want to hear how your community is making a difference! If you were inspired by the film, we want to hear how and share your story with the Living on One audience. • Become a guest blogger for the Living on One: No Limits Blog (see here livingonone.org/blog) by writing a 100-300 word post on what your community is doing, either in your own neighborhood or around the world, and how you were inspired by Living on On. • Send posts to [email protected] with email title “Guest Blog” • Take a picture of your screening audience holding their hands up in an “L1” symbol in solidarity. Send your picture [email protected] with email title “Screening Audience”. We would love to post it on our social media! livingonone.org | [email protected] 19 Pledge Card . . . . 20 LIVING ON ONE SCREENING Additional Ticket Sales Log Page ____ of ____ Name of your school or organization: ______________________________________________________ City/State: _______________________________ Date of Event: _______________________________ Total Tickets Sold before Event: _________________ Name (sold to) Phone Total Tickets Sold at Event: _____________ Email # sold Payment Type 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 21 Make an Impact and Fundraise for Our On-the-Ground Partners Give a Loan with Whole Planet Foundation Our time living on $1 a day taught us that access to small loans and bank accounts, known as microfinance, can dramatically improve the lives of the extreme poor. We choose to raise money for Whole Planet Foundation, who works to alleviate poverty through microfinance in 54 countries around the world. What makes them a unique and outstanding foundation is that they take the time to vett all the local organizations they work with to make sure they are engaging in non-predatory and sustainable microfinance practices. They make sure borrowers, including the women in Peña Blanca, Guatemala come first. Right now, you can empower someone just like Rosa with a microfinance loan and savings account to improve her own life. Our partnership with Whole Planet Foundation allows 100% of your donation to go directly to borrowers both in the U.S. and abroad. To make a difference today, visit www.livingonone.org/donate. Buy a Shirt to Help Rosa Accomplish Her Dream of Becoming a Nurse Rosa is our friend, the star of our film, and our inspiration for supporting women around the world through microfinance. We now have an incredible opportunity for all of us in the U.S. help Rosa achieve her dreams. We buy weavings directly from Rosa to make our Living on One t-shirts and tanks. With the profits from her weaving business, Rosa is sending herself through school to become a nurse. Living on One shirts are sold online here: www.serengetee.com/pena-blanca/ Give the Gift of Education to a Child Right now, you can help children in Peña Blanca, Guatemala go to school by directly providing scholarships through our partner organization Mayan Families. More information here: www.mayanfamilies.org Annual scholarships cost $360 to ensure a child has a chance at a better future. Every scholarship includes: school fees, books, supplies, a backpack, two sets of clothes, and nutrition supplements. Its amazing to see how happy the kids are when they get their supplies! 22 Resources to Help You Pursue Your Passion to Make a Difference Whether you are an artist, filmmaker, innovator, techie, entrepreneur, fundraiser, traveller or anything else, you can also be a global change-maker. It’s going to take all of our skills, working together, to make a real impact in the world. We have scoured the globe to find organizations where you can find incredible support no matter what your passion is, so check some of them out here and find more at LivingonOne.org/Act If you work with media or the arts... • Creative Visions Foundation supports “creative activists” as an incubator and academy to inspire the use of media and the arts for positive social change around the globe. See some of their “Creative Activists”: CreativeVisions.org If you are a social innovator.. • Dell Social Innovation Challenge identifies and supports young social innovators who dedicate themselves to solving the world’s most pressing problems with their transformative ideas. DSIC provides their challenge winners with start-up capital and access to a network of mentors and advisors. Apply for the Challenge: DellChallenge.org • Think Impact is an education company changing the way we think in business, school and in life. Interested in an intense summer experience in Africa, discovering the culture and testing your ideas for social change? Check out the Think Impact Institute: ThinkImpact.org • Compass Partners provides resources, training and a vibrant support network to students with innovative ideas to change the world through business. Check out their intensive Compass Fellowship Program: CompassPartners.org • CGap Microfinance Gateway helps you get your hands dirty and find out what microfinance is really about. CGAP’s Microfinance Gateway has the largest network of MFI’s in the world looking to hire interns and young professionals. Find your summer internship: CGAP’s Microfinance Gateway • Lend for America will show you the steps to starting your own campus lending program. You will be directly impacting the lives of people within your own community as well as learning valuable skills as an entrepreneur. Read more: LendforAmerica.com If you are a global traveller or volunteer.. • Global Volunteer Network helps connect and place volunteers with on-the-ground organizations around the world that specifically focus on bringing aid to women and children. Connect with a community where you can truly make an impact: GlobalVolunteerNetwork.org • Global Brigades mobilizes passionate volunteers to work with community members in a collaborative holistic approach to sustainable development. Join one of their university chapters to travel abroad, help facilitate loans, and gain first hand experience working with microfinance technicians in communities around the world: MicrofinanceBrigades.org 23