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Congressional Advocacy Recruitment
Effort, CARE
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- CARE Project Needs
PACE Support
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- IEEE-USA needs your support to make the Congressional Advocacy
Recruitment
- Effort (CARE) project a success.
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- The CARE Project is a new IEEE-USA initiative to recruit IEEE
volunteers as
- grassroots activists for the purposes of building
relationships between
- engineers and Members of Congress and raising Congressional
awareness and
- appreciation of science and technology. Our goal is to have
IEEE U.S.
- members pay a constituent visit on every U.S. Senator and
Representative in
- their District office sometime during the 107th Congress
(2001-2002). The
- project also encourages a wide variety of interactions in
addition to
- traditional visits, such as congressional involvement in
National Engineers
- Week, participation in tours and demonstrations, and member
involvement in
- local Town Hall meetings, etc.
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- In order to achieve these goals, IEEE-USA needs you, the
volunteers who
- make up the PACE Network, to help promote the CARE project in
your
- sections, chapters, societies, and student branches. Set a
personal
- example by taking the CARE Pledge and then paying a visit on
your Member(s)
- of Congress. Then help us to put the word out to others. A
strong push
- is needed now to take advantage of Congress' August Work
Period (August 4 -
- September 3), which is the perfect time for visits to
congressional
- District offices.
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- CARE Project information is available on the PACE Network 2001
CD (which
- you will be receiving shortly) and can also be obtained at the
CARE website
- (https://www.ieeeusa.org/forum/care). In addition to a pledge
form and
- report form, there are also useful resources including a guide
to arranging
- a successful congressional visit, a congressional directory, a
Powerpoint
- presentation on CARE, and a cross-reference of IEEE-USA
sections by
- congressional district. Please make use of these resources and
contact
- Chris Brantley in our IEEE-USA Washington office
(202-785-0017, x.8347 or
- c.brantley@ieee.org)
if you need any assistance. The PACE Network leaders
- will be following up with you to organize a visitation support
process to
- ensure that every Senator and Representative is visited.
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- Norm Augustine once remarked, "Engineers today seem to be the
stealth
- occupation....if we as engineers are unwilling to responsibly
speak out on
- issues within our realm of expertise, who then will?" The CARE
Project
- accepts that challenge. But to succeed, we need your help.
Please accept
- the challenge and help us show that the PACE Network can
deliver.
-
- Sincerely,
-
- Ned R. Sauthoff
- 2001 President,
- IEEE-USA
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- Lee Stogner
- Vice President, Professional Activities
- IEEE-USA
- Congressional
Advocacy Recruitment Effort, CARE
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- In an earlier email, Ned Sauthoff, IEEE-USA President and I
talked about
- the new CARE Project that we would like the PACE Network to
execute as a
- total team. If you haven't heard about the program yet, please
go to the
- following URL and begin reading,
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- https://www.ieeeusa.org/forum/care/index.html
-
- While you're there, please take the CARE Pledge so we can
complete the
- building of our team,
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- https://www.ieeeusa.org/forum/care/pledge.html
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- If by chance you are not the current PACE Representative,
please forward
- this message to the new Representative and to your
Section/Council
- Chair. The Economy is changing in ways that we cannot project
and we need
- to have a complete and organized PACE team in place to support
our
- membership.
-
- Thanks, I'm counting on you,
-
- Lee Stogner
- VP Professional Activities, IEEE-USA
- Mobile 864-444-0618
- Office 864-281-8276
- Email l.stogner@ieee.org
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- PACE PowerPoint
Presentation
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- This web address contains an excellent Powerpoint program for
your local
- PACE meeting.
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- https://www.ieeeusa.org/careers/ieeepep1.ppt
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- Please visit the site and schedule your meeting.
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- Updated
06/30/2001