Speakers Bureau
Submitted by august on Tue, 2006-01-17 08:39.
Welcome to the Secular Student Alliance’s Speakers Bureau!
These Freethought personalities have graciously offered to speak / present / debate on your campus for free, provided you are an official affiliate of the Secular Student Alliance.
The Speakers Bureau works as follows:
- If you are interested in inviting a particular speaker to your campus, please contact the SSA campus organizer at organizer@secularstudents.org, or fill out our online Speaker Request application.
- The SSA will pay up to $300.00 toward the cost of the speaker's travel and lodging. These funds are available on a first-come, first-serve basis. We budget $3,000.00 per calendar year toward this cost, so please make sure to book your travel early to receive the $300.00 funding. If your group needs additional funding, please apply for an SSA Project Grant. Alas, we're unlikely to be able to fund international travel with the possible exceptions of Canada or Mexico.
- Each speaking request is taken on a case by case basis and subject to the schedule availability of the speaker.
- To make each event worth the speaker's while, we ask that you formulate a thorough promotional plan to generate impressive turnout at your event. We are eager to help you with this.
- We require that you acknowledge the Secular Student Alliance and the Speakers Bureau when introducing the speaker. In addition, you must acknowledge the Secular Student Alliance in all event publicity (flyers, ads, and other promotional material).
- We ask that you take some pictures of the event and give us a short write-up for it that we can publish on our website and in our eMpirical (electronic newsletter).
- We've designed the Speaker Event Planning Checklist to help walk you through planning your event. We encourage all groups to check out this resource regardless of experience level!
- If you are recording an event, be sure to get the speaker's permission and have him or her sign a waiver. We have a generic waiver available at www.secularstudents.org/waiver.
The Bureau currently includes:
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