Lets be realistic.
I have been traveling throughout the KC Metro area this week; after meeting with a few different people and organizations, I’ve come to a few realizations about the Rock the Hill Campaign. Here they are:
(1) Even though I would like to think that the Change Agents are Super Stars, we aren’t enough of a super star to change or completely influence a college campus to schedule or reschedule a large scale music concert that occurs in less than three months. What is more, those same institutions, that we will be asking to work with, most likely begin their first day of classes towards the end of August - cutting the preparation time down to approx. 1 month.
(2) This being realized, we will be revamping our campaign. We will enourage college/university campuses that already have an event planned (music, comedian, etc) in the two weeks prior to Sept 27th, to co-sponsor their event with Be the Change, Inc and Service Nation. With a co-sponsoring of the event, we will work with the college campus to create a Rock the Hill Campaign event week around their pre-planned event.
(3) If a campus does not currently have an event planned within a two week period before Sept 27th, then we will encourage and work with the college campus to hold an event on Sept 27th. As many student life directors, concert & lecture committees, etc require a large amount of preplanning to host a large scale event; we will work with those people and bands and musicians within their areas to produce an event on their campus that is both affordable and realistic in the amount of time to prepare with.
(4) Within the Rock the Hill Campaign, we will also be hosting a fourth aspect of the event. We will encourage college/university presidents to sign a seperate support of the Declaration of National Service. This is an idea taken directly from the Save the AmeriCorps campaign that occurred in the early 2000s. This aspect of the Rock the Hill Campaign will be administered by the National Committee of the Service Nation project.
As an update to the Rock the Hill Campaign, both Agent Wing and myself will be presenting the Rock the Hill Campaign to the entire Change Agent program this afternoon and are currently working on the resolution to be used by the student governments.
BOWINKLE