18 Wheel Angels
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Kathylene
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Posted 26 April 2007 - 09:50 AM
I am the mother of a missing person. My son, Jason, has been missing without a trace for more than 6 years. A few months after his disappearance, we started to spread the word about him nationwide through a website.
http://members.cox.net/prayersandposters/
After that, I started to hear from kind people all over the country who, even though they did not know us, would help us by putting up posters of our son. Many of those kind hearted people were truck drivers. I was very moved by this.ÂÂ
While we still do not have any clues as to our own son's fate, we felt called to help others in this situation, so we started a nonprofit organization to assist families of the missing, Project Jason.
As a start-up with little money, I brainstormed inexpensive, yet effective ways to reach out and make an impact. I remembered the kindness of the truckers and the 18 Wheel Angels program sprang to life.
18 Wheel Angels FAQ:
What is an 18 Wheel Angel?
An 18 Wheel Angel is a compassionate person, who, while traveling the highways, helps to locate missing loved ones by placing posters of them along the way.
What would I need to do?
Project Jason, the sponsor organization, will feature a printable poster of a missing person on their website, which changes bi-monthly. 18 Wheel Angels would go to the website and print posters of the missing person to take on their next trip and post in businesses along their route.
What is required of me to be an 18 Wheel Angel?
Participating drivers need access to a PC, printer, and the Internet. Drivers may print 5 or more posters to distribute on their route. They will report bi-monthly via email to Project Jason the number of posters distributed per campaign.
Why should I become an 18 Wheel Angel?
The potential for the success of this program is unlimited. Remember, the key to resolution in these cases is public awareness. With over 97,000 active missing persons cases in the U.S., these families need your help. The poster that you lovingly place may be the one that reunites a family!
Why do I need to sign up and report in?
We want to provide stats on the webpage showing how many posters were placed. A successful program with statistical information can help increase the number of participants and thus increase the odds of locating a missing person.
The program started on January 15, 2004. A special link on our website for the 18 Wheel Angels program is where you will find the poster to print. Feel free to write me with any questions, or to sign up. Bookmark our website and check back for new campaigns.
http://www.projectjason.org/18wheel.shtml
Thank you for taking the time to read this.
http://members.cox.net/prayersandposters/
After that, I started to hear from kind people all over the country who, even though they did not know us, would help us by putting up posters of our son. Many of those kind hearted people were truck drivers. I was very moved by this.ÂÂ
While we still do not have any clues as to our own son's fate, we felt called to help others in this situation, so we started a nonprofit organization to assist families of the missing, Project Jason.
As a start-up with little money, I brainstormed inexpensive, yet effective ways to reach out and make an impact. I remembered the kindness of the truckers and the 18 Wheel Angels program sprang to life.
18 Wheel Angels FAQ:
What is an 18 Wheel Angel?
An 18 Wheel Angel is a compassionate person, who, while traveling the highways, helps to locate missing loved ones by placing posters of them along the way.
What would I need to do?
Project Jason, the sponsor organization, will feature a printable poster of a missing person on their website, which changes bi-monthly. 18 Wheel Angels would go to the website and print posters of the missing person to take on their next trip and post in businesses along their route.
What is required of me to be an 18 Wheel Angel?
Participating drivers need access to a PC, printer, and the Internet. Drivers may print 5 or more posters to distribute on their route. They will report bi-monthly via email to Project Jason the number of posters distributed per campaign.
Why should I become an 18 Wheel Angel?
The potential for the success of this program is unlimited. Remember, the key to resolution in these cases is public awareness. With over 97,000 active missing persons cases in the U.S., these families need your help. The poster that you lovingly place may be the one that reunites a family!
Why do I need to sign up and report in?
We want to provide stats on the webpage showing how many posters were placed. A successful program with statistical information can help increase the number of participants and thus increase the odds of locating a missing person.
The program started on January 15, 2004. A special link on our website for the 18 Wheel Angels program is where you will find the poster to print. Feel free to write me with any questions, or to sign up. Bookmark our website and check back for new campaigns.
http://www.projectjason.org/18wheel.shtml
Thank you for taking the time to read this.
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Kelly
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Posted 05 October 2007 - 10:30 PM
Good Day,
Project Jason is pleased to announce an increase in monthly campaigns on our awareness program, the 18 Wheel Angels. Currently, two campaigns per month are featured on our website at http://www.projectja...18wheel.shtml Beginning on November 1, 2007, we will now increase that to 4 campaigns per month.
18 Wheel Angels is a poster dissemination campaign aimed at truck drivers, who are natural networkers. We also encourage business travelers and the general public to come to the website, download, print, and display these posters in local businesses. A special poster is made for each selected person on the campaign. An example of these posters can be found at the website and below my signature in this message. (This is not a poster displayed on trucks. It is a print and place campaign.)
All missing persons who have been featured on the campaign will have their poster available to download on the 18 Wheel Angels page on our website until they are found.
In addition to the campaign, the selected missing person's information and photo is also featured in a trucking publication called Through the Gears. This free magazine is distributed in truck stops nationwide and has a circulation of about 150,000. The selected missing persons' information will also be on the trucker.com website under Missing Persons. Depending upon available space, some families may have a short story about the missing person published in the magazine in addition to the photo(s) and basic data.
Through the Gears is one of Target Media Partner's many publications. In partnership with Project Jason, they will now feature four missing persons per month.Two will be presented in Through the Gears, and the other two will be in the magazine Independent Contractor. (You can pick up your free copies at a local truck stop, but if it's far from you, you may want to call and ask if they carry that magazine. These are NOT with the regular for purchase magazines.)
What does this mean to you as a family member of a missing person?
The 18 Wheel Angels program is a great opportunity for awareness for your missing loved one. If he/she has never been featured on the campaign before, you can ask to be on the waiting list for the campaign. As with all of our programs, there is no cost to you. We develop the poster, upload it, submit it to our trucking industry partners and will also do a press release to the media in the area of the disappearance if you'd like. We have been told by several of the families whose loved ones were featured on the campaign that leads were generated from it.
What does this mean to you as an organization providing assistance to family members of missing persons?
The 18 Wheel Angels campaign can be another way you can help your families with awareness. We do need permission directly from the family to run their missing loved one on the campaign, so feel free to refer those qualified cases to us for assistance. Since we have more missing adult cases than child cases, we'd like to get some referrals from families of missing children as well. You can also forward this message to the families you serve.
Excluded case types: Â (This is due to the targeted nature of the campaign and in working with publishing deadlines for the magazines, which run a month or more in advance.)
Persons missing in a natural disaster, in a wilderness area, or in a body of water
Persons declared by a court of law or a law enforcement agency to be deceased
Repeat runaways, unless they have been missing for more than 6 months and their whereabouts are not known Â
Check here to see if your missing loved one has already been featured: http://www.projectja...g/18wheel.shtml
If you have not registered your missing loved one with Project Jason before, please do so here: http://projectjason.org/report.html
To see all of Project Jason's benefits and services, please click here: http://projectjason.org/benefits.html
Statistics show that one in every 6 missing persons is located because of a visual aid, such as a poster. The 18 Wheel Angels campaign is one way to increase awareness, and hopefully, bring someone loved and missed back home.
With Hope for all of our missing loved ones,
Kelly Jolkowski, Mother of Missing Jason Jolkowski
President and Founder,
Project Jason
http://www.projectjason.org
Read our Voice for the Missing Blog
http://voice4themissing.blogspot.com/
Project Jason is pleased to announce an increase in monthly campaigns on our awareness program, the 18 Wheel Angels. Currently, two campaigns per month are featured on our website at http://www.projectja...18wheel.shtml Beginning on November 1, 2007, we will now increase that to 4 campaigns per month.
18 Wheel Angels is a poster dissemination campaign aimed at truck drivers, who are natural networkers. We also encourage business travelers and the general public to come to the website, download, print, and display these posters in local businesses. A special poster is made for each selected person on the campaign. An example of these posters can be found at the website and below my signature in this message. (This is not a poster displayed on trucks. It is a print and place campaign.)
All missing persons who have been featured on the campaign will have their poster available to download on the 18 Wheel Angels page on our website until they are found.
In addition to the campaign, the selected missing person's information and photo is also featured in a trucking publication called Through the Gears. This free magazine is distributed in truck stops nationwide and has a circulation of about 150,000. The selected missing persons' information will also be on the trucker.com website under Missing Persons. Depending upon available space, some families may have a short story about the missing person published in the magazine in addition to the photo(s) and basic data.
Through the Gears is one of Target Media Partner's many publications. In partnership with Project Jason, they will now feature four missing persons per month.Two will be presented in Through the Gears, and the other two will be in the magazine Independent Contractor. (You can pick up your free copies at a local truck stop, but if it's far from you, you may want to call and ask if they carry that magazine. These are NOT with the regular for purchase magazines.)
What does this mean to you as a family member of a missing person?
The 18 Wheel Angels program is a great opportunity for awareness for your missing loved one. If he/she has never been featured on the campaign before, you can ask to be on the waiting list for the campaign. As with all of our programs, there is no cost to you. We develop the poster, upload it, submit it to our trucking industry partners and will also do a press release to the media in the area of the disappearance if you'd like. We have been told by several of the families whose loved ones were featured on the campaign that leads were generated from it.
What does this mean to you as an organization providing assistance to family members of missing persons?
The 18 Wheel Angels campaign can be another way you can help your families with awareness. We do need permission directly from the family to run their missing loved one on the campaign, so feel free to refer those qualified cases to us for assistance. Since we have more missing adult cases than child cases, we'd like to get some referrals from families of missing children as well. You can also forward this message to the families you serve.
Excluded case types: Â (This is due to the targeted nature of the campaign and in working with publishing deadlines for the magazines, which run a month or more in advance.)
Persons missing in a natural disaster, in a wilderness area, or in a body of water
Persons declared by a court of law or a law enforcement agency to be deceased
Repeat runaways, unless they have been missing for more than 6 months and their whereabouts are not known Â
Check here to see if your missing loved one has already been featured: http://www.projectja...g/18wheel.shtml
If you have not registered your missing loved one with Project Jason before, please do so here: http://projectjason.org/report.html
To see all of Project Jason's benefits and services, please click here: http://projectjason.org/benefits.html
Statistics show that one in every 6 missing persons is located because of a visual aid, such as a poster. The 18 Wheel Angels campaign is one way to increase awareness, and hopefully, bring someone loved and missed back home.
With Hope for all of our missing loved ones,
Kelly Jolkowski, Mother of Missing Jason Jolkowski
President and Founder,
Project Jason
http://www.projectjason.org
Read our Voice for the Missing Blog
http://voice4themissing.blogspot.com/
Kelly Murphy, Mother of Missing Jason Jolkowski
President and Founder,
Project Jason
www.projectjason.org
Please help us in our mission as a 501 c 3 nonprofit: http://projectjason....y-campaign.html
If you have seen any of our missing persons, please call the law enforcement agency listed on the post. All missing persons are loved by someone, and their families deserve to find the answers they seek in regards to the disappearance.
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