CPR Promotional Check-Up - Nov 14, 2016

Movember

This came up yesterday and is only a couple of weeks away. There is always a big hole post-October so maybe this is your filler.

One cluster used to do Mustache Day. Not sure why but they seemed to have fun with it.

If you had pit passes for an upcoming concert or NASCAR race, well, why should Movember be just for dudes? Have women get into it and post their shots.

What 13 or 14 year-old boy did not get genuinely excited when he had his first facial hair? It was a rite of passage. So do a gallery contest but with boys and their wanna-beards.

Or do a theme with each of the guys on staff trying to nail a celeb style. The Unabomber is a must.

Or simply have listeners mow the calls into their lawns and post the pics.

The Flight To The North Pole

This is the Lord, Gawd, Muther of all feel-good campaigns and was first done in tandem by 102 Jamz and the Orlando Magic. It's since been done by quite a few stations and I think the most consistently huge-ish has been Y-100 in Jackson and their event with the Mississippi Air National Guard. Erin Buchwald, who is just a tiny bit nuts, tells how they do it:

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We team up with the Salvation Army and the Air National Guard. The first week of December, we post up at Walmart for three days and do a live broadcast asking people to adopt an angel for the Salvation Army. Working with the Salvation Army is great because they organize the angel tree requests from the local families in need, they organize all the names and presents and who wants what and they choose which kids are most in need... the kids who get to go to the North Pole. During that Walmart week, we try to get the "Flight" kids adopted first. Every flight kid gets a bike, clothes and toys.

During Walmart week, volunteers from the Air National Guard hang at Walmart to collect and organize donations and to load all the donations onto the truck.

We usually have the flight a week and a half to two weeks after Walmart week. The Salvation Army organizes donations and the Air National Guard decorates their hangar. They set up a face painting station, a reading circle, a hula hoop area and wrap a whole bunch of liquor boxes to look like Christmas presents, for the kids to stack and then kick down. Every kid has their own personal elf (members of the Air National Guard). Every kid gets to meet Santa and Mrs. Claus. Every kid gets a bike helmet (donated by a law firm), which is fitted at the event. There's Christmas music, bubble blowing, cookies and juice, dancing, piggy back rides... you cannot help but cry/smile.