Press Kit for Tipping Point Action Campaign (Citizen Participation in Times of Unprecedented Challenges)

Press Kit for Tipping Point Action Campaign
Citizen Participation in Times of Unprecedented Challenges
[a campaign of The Community Peacebuilding and Cultural Sustainability (CPCS) Initiative]
(www.cpcsc.info)

Contact: Stefan Pasti, Campaign Coordinator
Cell: (703) 209-2093
Email: [email protected]

Note: a February 14, 2014 Press Release, and the full text (with resource links, etc) of the Press Kit are accessible at http://cpcsc.info/press-kit/ . Also at that webpage: a link to a pdf file of the Press Kit.

The Community Peacebuilding and Cultural Sustainability (CPCS) Initiative provides research for critical challenge alerts, and support for collaborative problem solving initiatives which seek to maximize citizen participation.

There are two key pieces the Tipping Point Action Campaign is contributing to efforts to overcome the challenges of our times: a) evidence that a profound level of problem solving is needed b) starting points for discussion on how such a level of problem solving can be achieved.

Beginning in December, 2013, The CPCS Initiative launched a new and comprehensive campaign called “Tipping Point Action: Citizen Participation in Times of Unprecedented Challenges”.

The primary goal of these campaigns/initiatives is to encourage citizens from every variety of circumstances to help create, become involved, contribute to, and participate in one or more of the thousands of Community Visioning Initiatives (or similar stakeholder engagement/collaborative problem solving processes designed to maximize citizen participation) which will be needed to exponentially accelerate solution-oriented activity at this critical time.

From the Introduction to the Press Kit:

“This Press Kit has been created to assist newspaper reporters (and other media representatives) with appreciating the valuable contributions which can be made by the campaign Tipping Point Action: Citizen Participation in Times of Unprecedented Challenges”—and to assist reporters and other interested people with sharing information about the Tipping Point Action Campaign.

“This Press Kit has also been created as a way of sharing information about the Tipping Point Action Campaign with organizations and individuals working along similar lines. Much potential for partnerships and collaborations is brought forward by the Tipping Point Action Campaign. The Campaign Coordinator, Stefan Pasti, hopes people who access this Press Kit will see that potential. The contents of the Press Kit can then help facilitate partnerships to realize the goal of the Tipping Point Campaign—thousands of Community Visioning Initiatives to help maximize citizen participation, and exponentially accelerate solution-oriented activity in these times of unprecedented challenges.

Contents of Press Kit

A. Press Release: “The Tipping Point Action Campaign: A Catalyst for Exponentially
Accelerating Solution-Oriented Activity at this Critical Time” (p. 2)
B. Primary Outreach Documents (p. 6)
C. Already Created Articles (p. 6)
D. Quick Reference Resources (p. 7)

E. Backgrounders
1) “About the Community Peacebuilding and Cultural Sustainability (CPCS) Initiative” (p. 7)
2) “About Stefan Pasti, Campaign Coordinator--Tipping Point Action Campaign” (p. 7)

F. Fact Sheets/Executive Summaries
(summarizing key document “Invitation Package for Possible Board of Advisors” (589 pages)
1) “Resources, Statistics, and Observations” (20 pages) (p. 8)
2) “20 Page Introduction” (to “Invitation Package…” document) (p.8)

G. How Local Newspapers Can Help (p. 8)

Press Kit includes descriptions and links to the following documents:

Primary Outreach Documents

1) "Invitation to Comment on the Tipping Point Action Proposal at MIT Climate CoLab Crowdsourcing Platform" (4 pages)
2) “Tipping Point Action: Citizen Participation in Times of Unprecedented Challenges” (5 pages)

Already Created Articles

1) “The Tipping Point Action Campaign: Making the case for problem solving on a scale most of us have never known before” (6 pages)
2) “An Invitation to Participate in Community Visioning Initiatives--as a way of carefully examining our options at this critical time” (6 pages)
3) “The Tipping Point Action Campaign: A Catalyst for Exponentially Accelerating Solution-Oriented Activity at this Critical Time (An Interview with Campaign Coordinator, Stefan Pasti)” (10 pages)

Quick Reference Resources

1) “A List of Ten Critical Challenges” (1 page)
2) “The Potential of Community Visioning Initiatives (in 500 words)”
3) “Chattanooga: A Community With A Vision” (13 minutes) Video Documentary which includes many interviews and how to details associated with two Community Visioning Initiatives

Backgrounders

1) “About the Community Peacebuilding and Cultural Sustainability (CPCS) Initiative” (1 page)
2) “About Stefan Pasti, Campaign Coordinator--Tipping Point Action Campaign: Some Biographical Notes” (2 pages)

F. Fact Sheets/Executive Summaries
(summarizing key document “Invitation Package for Possible Board of Advisors” (589 pages)

1) “Resources, Statistics, and Observations” (20 pages)
2) “20 Page Introduction” (to “Invitation Package…” document)

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The Community Peacebuilding and Cultural Sustainability (CPCS) Initiative (at www.cpcsc.info) provides research for critical challenge alerts, and support for collaborative problem solving initiatives which seek to maximize citizen participation.

Stefan Pasti is the Campaign Coordinator for “Tipping Point Action: Citizen Participation in Times of Unprecedented Challenges”. He is good at analyzing complex information regarding challenges of our times, identifying pathways for solution-oriented activity to flow, synthesizing such information into
understandable parts, and organizing those parts into well organized documents (much like the work
which would need to be done to sort through participant input during a Community Visioning Initiative).