Tools & Resources for Green Ambassadors

Here are tools and resources to help promote the Green Homes Challenge and related initiatives in your affiliated groups and communities. If you have questions or need help locating specific resources, please contact Sabrina Harder, Green Homes Program Coordinator at 301.600.7414 or sharder@FrederickCountyMD.gov.

Administrative Tools

• Contact List for Green Ambassadors
• Event Tracking Spreadsheet
  Use this to record your events, number of people reached, etc. Please submit this information monthly so we can report statistics to our funders.
• Event Tracking Form (for printing)
  Use this if you prefer to keep track of your event statistics on paper copies

Mini-Grants

• GA Mini-Grants Overview and Application
• GA Mini-Grant Summary Report Form 

Resources & Ideas for Green Ambassadors

• First Steps for Green Ambassadors
• Activity Ideas for Green Ambassadors
• Principles of Influence Summary and GHC Application by Orr 
• Summary of Influence by Rick Cross Institute
• Outreach Tools & Resources
• Simple GHC Letterhead
• Fancy GHC Letterhead with border at top
• General Interest Sign-Up Form - for tabling events
• Customizable Community Newsletter Article
• How to use VistaPrint for low-cost marketing materials
• Customizable Powerware Party Invitation
• 11x17" Be a Power Saver Signs
  These larger signs would need to be printed at a commercial printer. Minuteman Press printed these for us and they are now displayed in TransIt buses.)

Business Cards

• Generic GHC Card
• Customizable Personal Business Card

Customizable 8.5 x 11" Tear-Off Fliers: (Fliers with tear-off slips with GA contact info)

• Powerware Party Invitation
• Your Utility Bill is One Expense You can Control
• Tear-Off Flier template

Sample Customizable Advertisements:

• Instructions for Customizing and Using Ads
• Large Ad - Father Daughter
• Large Ad - Young Woman
• Large Ad - Young Man 

Small Ads - Business Card Size

• Basic Green Homes Challenge Ad - no need to customize
• Basic Be a Power Saver Ad
• Powerware Party Save-the-Date Card
• Green Ambassador Introduction 

Powerware Party Presentations
Guide for Customizing Powerware Party & Other PowerPoint Presentations

Visioning Slide Show:
Use this if you'd like a slide show playing before PWP begins
Continuously running visioning slide show - What do you want to see in the future?

Use the following with small groups if you plan to do activities with physical pie chart mats:

• 90 minute Powerware Party Presentation (without embedded activities)
• 60 minute Powerware Party Presentation (without embedded activities)

• PRACTICE NOTES - 90 minute PWP (without embedded activities)
• PRACTICE NOTES - 60 minute PWP (without embedded activities)

Use the following with large groups if you plan to do activities interactively from PowerPoint:

• 90 minute Powerware Party Presentation (with embedded activities)
• 60 minute Powerware Party Presentation (with embedded activities)

• PRACTICE NOTES - 90 minute PWP (with embedded activities)
• PRACTICE NOTES - 60 minute PWP (with embedded activities)

• If you are presenting to a group more focused on saving money and avoiding waste, and less concerned about climate change, use the following presentation:
  • 90 minute PWP Presentation - No Climate Change Slides
  • 60 minute PWP Presentation - No Climate Change Slides
  • 90 minute PWP Presentation (with embedded activities) - No Climate Change Slides
  • 60 minute PWP Presentation (with embedded activities) - No Climate Change Slides

• Other PowerPoint slides you might want to incorporate:
  • Where Homes Leak Slide

Powerware Party Materials & Handouts

• Powerware Party Checklist
• Powerware Party Sign-In Form
• Energy Actions - Pledge Info Sheet
• Energy Actions - Pledge Card
• Using a Green Team with the Green Homes Challenge Handout
• Powerware Party Evaluation Form

Green Homes Chalenge Logos

• GHC Logo - Lg
• GHC Logo - Sm
• GHC Logo Seal - Lg
• GHC Logo Seal - sm

• Power Saver Logo - Lg
• Power Saver Logo - Sm

• Green Leader Logo - Lg
• Green Leader Logo - Sm

• Renewable Star Logo - Lg
• Renewable Star Logo - Sm