Welcome to our comprehensive Resources page, home to everything you could ever want or need to promote a successful open house event RecruitNY Weekend, April 23-24. Browse our powerful promotional materials below, then customize, download and go!
Tip Sheet
Use this handy checklist to ensure you’re maximizing promotion of your RecruitNY open house event!
Social Media Graphics
Use these graphics to help promote your event! Simply create a post to promote your open house event to go along with this image intended to generate interest in the volunteer fire service.
Customizable Press Release
Use this press release to alert the public and promote your event. Fill in the blanks and send it out to your local media contacts for coverage a few weeks ahead of time.
FAQ
We’ve collected the most common questions of the public to help you answer these inquiries. Download this sheet to educate members and keep handy during your event.
8.5″ x 11″ Poster
Hang this flyer up around the community in public, high-traffic areas including libraries, municipal buildings, supermarket bulletin boards and shop windows. We left plenty of space for customization, which you can use to advertise your website, Facebook page or physical address.
11″ x 17″ Poster
Use this customizable poster to let your community know where and what you’re doing RecruitNY. Like the flyer, you can use the customizable space for whatever you choose: a website, your Facebook page, a physical address – it’s up to you!
Large Format Banner
Looking to make a big impression? Place these outdoor banners on your department to promote your event.
Yard Sign
Have your members place these signs on their lawns or ask for permission to post them in other public places. Once again, we’ve left space for you to customize the information you need to get out there, be it a website, Facebook page or physical address.
Rack Card
This is a smaller version of the flyer, poster or yard sign to promote your open house event. Leave them in high-traffic areas around the community or hand them out personally.
Web Banner Ads
Upload these ads to the homepage of your department’s website so that anyone checking out your site will see them.
Logos
Upload this logo to your website and use it in all of your department’s signage and on any other communication pieces or even a T-shirt.
Virtual How-To Tip Sheet
Going virtual this year? Use this tip sheet full of ideas to help put together a virtual open house!
Fire In You Brochure
Share this Fire In You brochure with anyone who has expressed an interest in volunteering. It is meant to encourage potential recruits to take the first step and speaks to the rewards and benefits of becoming a volunteer.
Links
- The Firemen’s Association of the State of New York
- The Association of Fire Districts of the State of New York
- Fire Corps
- The National Volunteer Fire Council
- New York State Association of Fire Chiefs
- Resource for Year-Round Fire Prevention and Life Safety Materials
- Statewide Recruitment Campaign “Is There a Fire In You?”
- Youth in the Fire Service
- Recruitment Remains a Priority During Pandemic
- Women Are Key to Recruitment
- Recruitment and Retention: The Second 'R' Should Not Be Silent
- Want to Better Recruit and Retain? Be More Like Google
- Recruiting Outside the Box
- Understanding the New Class of Recruits
- Tips for Retention of New Recruits
- Recruitment in the Fire Service: Understanding the Marketing Funnel
- Recruiting the Next Fire Service Leaders: The Millennial Generation
- How to Recruit, Retain and Train the Next Generation of Firefighters