Keep the EITC message alive through the filing season

There are many ways to continue EITC outreach after Awareness Day. Here are some approaches:

Leverage opportunities in your local office(s)

  • Inform your staff about EITC and encourage them to alert clients and customers about claiming the credit
  • Include EITC articles in your newsletters

Use our social media products and your own website

  • Blog about EITC
  • Post on social media about EITC
  • Place an EITC banner on your website
  • Place educational information on your website

Work with your local news media

  • Contact television news directors or consumer reporters and pitch the EITC story
  • Contact editors at daily and weekly newspapers and pitch the EITC story
  • Contact programming directors at radio, broadcast TV and cable stations to ask for time on community programs
  • Contact talk radio stations and offer to appear on call-in shows
  • Identify EITC champions (EITC recipients, financial institutions, school officials, clergy members, college coaches, pro athletes, other well-known personalities, etc.) to serve as spokespersons to tell the EITC story
  • Provide EITC public service messages to TV stations
  • Produce public service announcements in partnership with EITC champions, EITC partners and supporting radio, TV and cable stations
  • Solicit sponsors for EITC newspaper ads
  • Ask local media to include an EITC message on their websites

Maximize use of established community communication channels

  • Ask shopping malls and other merchants to promote EITC on signs
  • Ask schools, Head Start programs, and childcare facilities to alert parents to EITC
  • Ask employers to alert employees about EITC through paychecks, bulletin boards, etc.
  • Ask county extension services and other partners to include EITC in their newsletters
  • Ask libraries to promote EITC through signs and children's reading programs
  • Ask food banks, shelters, crisis centers, etc., to share EITC information with their clients
  • Ask fast food restaurants to include a message on their tray liners
  • Place posters in supermarkets and money transfer offices

Piggyback on current community events, such as:

  • Financial seminars
  • Community service fairs
  • Events for expectant mothers
  • Faith-based fairs and happenings
  • Food drives and distributions
  • KIDS COUNT conferences
  • Marting Luther King, Jr. Day, Presidents Day, Mardi Gras, St. Patrick's Day and other parades and celebrations

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