Action Trees are one of Prepare the Future’s key strategies for building a powerful public voice. An Action Tree is an online community built by friends who share common values, including a commitment to quality public education for all children. A successful Action Tree will include at least 390 people who grow from a seed of 30 people identified by a participating organization.
How does it work? A participating organization finds 30 friends, congregants, board members, family, co-workers or others. Those 30 will find just 3 friends each, adding 90 advocates to the Action Tree. Those 90 new advocates will each find 3 more friends, adding another 270.
 
30 + 90 + 270 = 390 child advocates recruited through each participating organization.
 
The Four Commitments
Each person in the Action Tree makes four simple commitments:

1. To Prepare The Future’s agenda of providing a quality public education for every child;
2. To take one action per month in support of the agenda (there will be several options suggested each month ranging from emails to policy makers to participation in rallies and prayer vigils;
3. To contribute annually to support Prepare The Future (suggested amount $20)
4. To find three friends who will make these same four commitments.

 
Joining an Action Tree makes you part of an online community — a powerful, two-way channel of communication. Through blogs, links to websites, emails, podcasts and other uses of technology, members learn about public education and other issues related to the shared values of Prepare the Future.
 
Members can also:

• Provide regular feedback to Prepare the Future; 
• Comment on advocacy activities; 
• Make suggestions for greater strategic effectiveness; 
• Make their voices heard on important education issues;