Minor League Baseball™ Joins Local Boy Scout Troops and Citizen Corps Councils to Help Americans get Ready
Minor League Baseball™ and the Boy Scouts of America are once again partnering with the Ready Campaign and Citizen Corps Program for the sixth straight year! Together over the last five years, we’ve reached millions of baseball fans with our message and we’re excited about what this new year will bring.
Each season, ballparks around the country serve as gathering places for friends and family. Throughout the 2008 season, teams participated in a variety of activities to promote emergency preparedness from featuring the Ready PSAs on their scoreboards and monitors to hosting entire Ready Nights where local Boy Scouts and/or Citizen Corps distributed emergency preparedness brochures.
We encourage you to reach out to your local Minor League Baseball™ team and use the toolkit and banners found on this page to educate fans on how they can better prepare themselves, their families, businesses and communities for an emergency. Partnering with your local Boys Scouts troops and other youth groups is also a great way to make your event an even bigger success. You may also want to consider having Rex, the Ready Kids mascot, make a special guest appearance.
To find your local team, please visit www.minorleaguebaseball.com or contact the Ready Campaign. If you have any questions or would like to register your Council as a Minor League Baseball™ Ready participant, please contact Ingela Hartman by phone at 717-232-5554 x129 or e-mail ready@dhs.gov.
If you would like to include a link to Ready.gov on your website, we invite you to use one of the official Ready.gov graphics below. To download to your PC, right-click on the graphic and select "Save Picture As...". Mac users can "Control-Click" and "Save Image to Desktop". If you are unable to download the banner by this manner, just download the Zip File link.
These graphics may not be used in any way that implies a relationship with, affiliation with, sponsorship of, or endorsement by Ready.gov, or that can reasonably be interpreted to suggest editorial content has been authored by or represents the views or opinions of Ready.gov, or to promote any commercial product or service, or in any other way that violates applicable law.
Toolkits
Toolkits have been created to provide teams, offices of emergency management and Citizen Corps Councils with additional resources and information.
- Toolkit for Minor League Baseball™ Teams Doc 1.8Mb
- Toolkit for Offices of Emergency Management Doc 1.9Mb
- Toolkit for Citizen Corps Councils Doc 1.8Mb
Zipped File of MiLB Web Banners
Jpeg Versions of MiLB Web Banners
Don't Get Caught Unprepared for Emergencies - Baseball and Glove
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Minor League Baseball™ and Ready Teaming up for Emergency Preparedness
- Baseball Bat and Pitcher
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