“MAKE IT YOUR OWN” TOOLKIT

Now you can download the whole toolkit in one click or pick and choose which documents you need.  Select materials in Word if you would like to insert your own logo or use the PDF versions if you would like to use the materials as is.

Toolkit materials in Word

1. NEW! Women’s Stories
   

2. All in one toolkit
   

3. Welcome and Getting Started
   

4. Sample Agenda and Guide
   

5. 10-minute Video Clip “Social Security: The    American Promise.”
   

6. Social Security Partner Organizations
   

7. 10 Things You Should Know
   

8. Sample Presentation (PowerPoint)
   

9. Social Security Messaging
   

10. Social Security Supplemental Messages
    

11. Resource Sheet (EMAIL Handout)
    

12. Resource Sheet (PRINT Handout)
    

13. Sample Letter to Congress
    

14. Sample Press Release
    

15. Sample Letter to the Editor
    

16. Responses to Opposition
    

17. Sample Tweets
    

Toolkit materials in PDF

1. NEW! Women’s Stories
   

2. All in one toolkit
   

3. Welcome and Getting Started
   

4. Sample Agenda and Guide
   

5. 10-minute Video Clip “Social Security: The American Promise.”
   

6. Social Security Partner Organizations
   

7. 10 Things You Should Know
   

8. Sample Presentation
   

9. Social Security Messaging
   

10. Social Security Supplemental Messages
    

11. Resource Sheet
    

12. Sample Letter to Congress
    

13. Sample Press Release
    

14. Sample Letter to the Editor
    

15. Responses to Opposition
    

16. Sample Tweets
    

FACT SHEETS

1. Myths and Facts: Raising the Retirement Age- Social Security Matters, August 2010.
   

2. Children and Families Have Stake Social Security - Generations United, April 2010.
   

3. National Elder Economic Standard Index - WOW, March 2009.
   

BLOGS

1. Fiscal Commission Mistakenly Targets Social Security for Cuts, Merton and Joan Bernstein, Coles Prof of Law Emeritus, Washington University
   

2. "310 Million Tits" -- If Simpson Doesn't Resign, the President Must Fire Him - by Richard (RJ) Eskow, Senior Fellow, Campaign for America’s Future
   

3. Alan Simpson Embarrasses Obama, Insults Women, and, Well, Everyone - by Natale Zimmer, OWL
   

4. “Social Security isn’t in ‘crisis’ - but older women are” - by Stacy Sanders, WOW
   

5. Enough with the Pink Panthers Bit, by Ashley Carson, Social Security Matters
   

6. Blog in The Hill by Terrence Kane, Generations United: Click Here
   

7. Post by the Pension Rights Center: Click Here
   

REPORTS AND PRESENTATIONS

1. OWL’s Position Paper on Social Security - OWL, Sep. 2010
   

2. Social Security Modernization: Options to Address Solvency and Benefit Adequacy - Senate Special Committee on Aging, May 2010
   

3. Implications of Raising Social Security’s Normal Retirement Age - CEPR, Aug. 2010
   

4. Raising the Retirement Age is Dangerous - NCWO and Social Security Matters, July 2010
   

5. Ashley Carson’s Remarks from the NASI briefing entitled,   “Demystifying the Deficit, Social Security Finances and the Budget”: Click Here
   

6. Statement to the Senate Budget Committee from former Greenspan Commission Staff (Nov. 10, 2009): Click Here
   

7. USA Today Opinion Piece: Hands off Social Security
   

8. Fixing Social Security and Economic Crisis Fuels Support for Social Security Reports - NASI October 2009
   

9. NASI May 2009 Findings of the 2009 Trustees Report
   

10. CEPR Statement on the Trustee’s Report -  Click HERE