Our commitment to you as a FOUR YEARS. GO. Allied Organization is to share your work with our growing community to give you exposure, promote collaboration, and support your important work.
Please describe a project that your organization is working on and how it will help to set humanity on the path toward a sustainable, just, and fulfilling presence on this planet by the end of 2014.
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Our wish is to INSPIRE the larger FOUR YEARS. GO. movement with your GAME CHANGING stories that show us the way we will shift things in the next four years.
Since FOUR YEARS. GO. launched in March 2010, over 1300 organizations have signed on to become Allies, declaring their commitment to work to set humanity on the path toward a sustainable, just, and fulfilling presence on this planet by the end of 2014.
We want to cover all GAME CHANGING stories. Please let us know about your successes and the events and actions that you are planning. Your example will inspire others and help all of us to think more audaciously and more clearly about what brings about change.
We encourage you to read all these important details before participating.
FOUR YEARS. GO. is about urgency and about shifting humanity's direction by the end of 2014. So please put your story into the context of making the shift in the next four years.
This opportunity is available to FOUR YEARS. GO. Allied Organizations. It's very easy to become an Allied Organization.
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We may publish your content to our website as a blog post, or may share it in our newsletter. We may edit content but we will not alter the core meaning or concept of the content.
Submit original content. Do not submit content written by someone else or previously published for which you do not hold the copyright, including images.
Remember that readers have many other things to look at online—keep it clear and compelling.
When writing a post in the online editor, you will lose all formatting. Please make it clear to us where subheadings go and what formatting you desire so we can properly format your post. If you have a comment to the editor, please put it within [brackets], so that we know it's not part of your actual post.
A great title is less than 60 characters; uses relevant keywords to your article; contains at least one action verb; i.e. "Tell Congress to switch off oil subsidies, switch on solar."
Please submit at least one image per post. Only submit images for which you hold a copyright or that are licensed for reuse. Longer posts require more images. Indicate image position with brackets next to the paragraph; i.e., [Insert subsidies graph here.] Image credits, if needed, go at the end of the article; i.e., Graph credits: xxxx; Pumpkin image credit: xxxx.
An excerpt is an original, catchy description of your post that draws the reader in. Use action verbs, key words, and 160 characters or less.
Tags are the keywords search engines employ to help direct web surfers to your post. Include: Org. name, keywords in your excerpt, title, and lead paragraph.
Place brackets around the URL immediately following the text you want to hyperlink; i.e., Solar energy increases 500 percent in two years [http://www.fouryearsgo.org/2010/07/07/allied-organization-stories/solar-energy-increases-500-in-2-years/]. Make sure the URL takes the reader to the right page (test it).
Use subheadings to break up long articles; bulleted lists for quick bites of information; images and/or videos to keep things lively.
Repeat a request for action and include the URL you want the reader to hop to one more time, add a link or contact information to give your reader to an opportunity to learn more.
Proofread your article carefully for misspelled words, incorrect punctuation, run-on sentences, fragments and grammatical errors. Double-check these guidelines to assure you haven't missed an important piece.
If you have questions about these guidelines, or suggestions for improving the submission process, please contact orgs@fouryearsgo.org.
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