How To Organize A Successful Save The Frogs Day Event

Author:Kerry Kriger Published: 2018-02-102024-03-16 Updated: 2024-03-16 Events

How To Hold An Exceptionally Successful Save The Frogs Day Event

Thank you for your interest in organizing a Save The Frogs Day event and taking an active part in amphibian conservation efforts! This page details some great ways to ensure the success of your event.

Before Your Event | Day Of Your Event | After Your Event

Before Your Event

Register Your Event

Registering your Save The Frogs Day event enables us to keep you posted with event information, and it helps us to track how many events are taking place around the world. Even if your event is small, it is important and we want to know about it. Registration is free.

Register Your Event Here

Get ideas from past Save The Frogs Day events

A great way to find ideas for your own event is to look at what others have done in past years:

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Save The Frogs Day 2022 with Pradhikar in Sylhet, Bangladesh

Watch These Videos About Save The Frogs Day

Video: A Brief History of Save The Frogs Day

Get inspired by this video, in which Dr. Kerry Kriger shows you some of his favorite events that have taken place on Save The Frogs Day:

SAVE THE FROGS! Academy Video About Save The Frogs Day (Recorded August 2013)

Watch this video of the August 14th, 2013 SAVE THE FROGS! Academy class where SAVE THE FROGS! Founder Dr. Kerry Kriger discusses the history of Save The Frogs Day and how to organize a Save The Frogs Day event in YOUR Town!

SAVE THE FROGS! Academy Video About Save The Frogs Day (Recorded February 2013)

Watch this video of the February 24th, 2013 SAVE THE FROGS! Academy class where SAVE THE FROGS! Founder Dr. Kerry Kriger outlines his vision of Save The Frogs Day and how you can get involved and help us SAVE THE FROGS!

Watch this video to learn how to run a table and effectively communicate our mission

Former SAVE THE FROGS! Advisory Committee Chairman Michael Starkey produced this excellent video on how to run a SAVE THE FROGS! informational table and effectively communicate our mission.

Video: Save The Frogs Day Planning Session (April 4th, 2023)

SAVE THE FROGS! Founder Dr. Kerry Kriger provides advice on how to organize a successful Save The Frogs Day event. Meet some Save The Frogs Day organizers and learn how to easily design a poster to promote your event.

Invite some local reporters to your event

Save The Frogs Day makes great publicity, so please inform your local journalists and invite them to your event.

Fundraise for SAVE THE FROGS!

SAVE THE FROGS! relies on support from the public: we receive no government grants and get by on a fraction of what the large nonprofits have to work with. Your financial support is crucial to our worldwide amphibian conservation efforts, so we hope your Save The Frogs Day event has some fundraising aspect in addition to the educational side of things. Fundraising ideally starts before your event. If your event costs money, feel free to fundraise to cover your event costs (we welcome anything you raise in excess of your event costs!). We strongly encourage all groups to set up their own personalized fundraising webpages for the frogs.

Here are a lot of fundraising tips!

Make a Save The Frogs Day flyer

Flyers help promote your event and look great on our website as well, so if you make one, please be sure to email us the jpeg and/or PDF so we can add it to our website. Flyers should ideally have the SAVE THE FROGS! logo and/or Save The Frogs Day icon, and a big URL that says savethefrogs.com so people know where to learn more.

We have lots of downloadable flyers here.

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Example of a Save The Frogs Day flyer. Yours could be better by adding the SAVE THE FROGS! logo.

Spell our name correctly

Our organization’s name is SAVE THE FROGS! and we would love it if you spelled it, capitalized it, and punctuated it exactly like that. In other words, we are not SAVE the Frog or any other permutation of the words…so please just copy, paste and use this:

SAVE THE FROGS!

Here’s our logo

If you need a higher resolution version, let us know.

Here’s the Save The Frogs Day icon

You can use the icon below on your webpage. Please link the image to:
https://savethefrogs.com/day

If you would like the image for printed materials, contact us to request a high resolution version.

Notice that whereas our organization name is written SAVE THE FROGS! the name of this event is written in Title Case, with no exclamation point, just like this:

Save The Frogs Day

Slideshows

If you are giving a presentation, you may wish to use one of our slideshows (more coming soon!).

Frog Family Modyfi Frog Art Kerry Kriger

Frog Family Art created in Modyfi by SAVE THE FROGS! Founder Dr. Kerry Kriger, who conceived Save The Frogs Day in late 2008 as a way to educate students, teachers and politicians about amphibians.

Here’s a poster for you to download and print!

Here are high resolution files you can print:
Here is a 17×23″ PDF (127 MB)
Here is a 11×17″ PDF (94 MB)
Here is a 8.5×11″ PDF (50 MB)
They are large files so allow them time to open.

We have more flyers and ways to spread the word on our How To Spread The Word About Save The Frogs Day page.

Flyer - Save The Frogs Day - April 28th Every Year

Promote Your Event!

We suggest you make a dedicated webpage that holds all your event info, then share the URL in all your social media posts. When you register your event be sure to provide us the URL so we can add it to our website. Please include the Save The Frogs Day icon atop your page, linked to https://savethefrogs.com/day

Be sure to also email your mailing list subscribers and contacts about your event! And of course, share on social.

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Frog Family Art created in Modyfi by SAVE THE FROGS! Founder Dr. Kerry Kriger.

Day Of The Event

Take Photos!

Save The Frogs Day will come and go, but if you get one good photo of your event – one that captures the essence of the day – that photo will inspire generations of frog savers and donors as well. Thus your Save The Frogs Day event photos are almost as important as the event itself. Please email your best photos (no bad photos please) to photos@savethefrogs.com and be sure to include your country state and city in the subject line. Try to get a picture of your group holding up a Save The Frogs Day banner or with something that says Save The Frogs Day or SAVE THE FROGS!. We suggest that prior to your event you enlist a dedicated, talented photographer to take photos.

PHOTOGRAPHY TIP #1: Group Photos

Make sure there is only a single camera taking a photo of your group at once, otherwise people’s eyes are looking different cameras and the photo is not as good as it could have been.

PHOTOGRAPHY TIP #2: Smile

Don’t forget to smile! You can tell everyone to yell SAVE THE FROGS! on the count of three.

Save The Frogs Day celebrations in South Korea, 2010

Collect Donations

Please inform your audience that Save The Frogs Day is coordinated by SAVE THE FROGS!, a 501(c)(3) public charity for which all donations are tax-exempt to the fullest extent of the law. Please ask for donations. Checks can be made out to SAVE THE FROGS!. Our fundraising ideas page has lots of ideas on how you can raise more money this Save The Frogs Day. Please be sure to send your donations in to us by mid-May. Thank you and good luck!!!

Froggy donation art by Leah Klehn

Display This Newsletter Signup Flyer

Encourage attendees to subscribe to the free SAVE THE FROGS! electronic newsletter. A large mailing list is crucial to the success of our mission!

Print out this 8.5×11″ (A4) flyer and post it in a visible spot at your event. Click the image below open the PDF (be patient as it is 40MB).

We have more flyers and ways to spread the word on our How To Spread The Word About Save The Frogs Day page.

Be sure to sign up for the SAVE THE FROGS! Newsletter if you’re not yet signed up!

Count how many people pass through your event

SAVE THE FROGS! and our donors like to know how many people are educated by our programs (volunteers and participants), so after your event we will be asking you to tell us how many people attended your event. It is fine to estimate…and if you keep in mind that you should be counting, your estimate will likely be fairly accurate!

Save The Frogs Day 2017, Sanepa, Nepal

Film your event if possible

It’s good to have a dedicated videographer, but your mobile phone will likely do just fine. If you make a film, we can probably YouTube it!

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Save The Frogs Day 2013 art by Matthew Bryan

Have fun!

Relax, smile and a have a great time at you event!

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Save The Frogs Day 2022 at Bird Park, Sylvan Heights, North Carolina, USA.

After Your Event

Report Your Event And Submit Your Best Photos

Reporting your event is super important! We want to know what took place, and it helps inspire future frog savers when we share your photos and stories.

Gather your best photos and prepare a paragraph or two summarizing the event. Collect any press clippings or URL’s of online articles about your event. We can put these on the website and share on our social media channels.

Report Your Event Here

Save The Frogs Day 2022 in Sylhet, Bangladesh with Pradhikar at SAU.

Promote your successes

Add your favorite photos to your social media and tag us @savethefrogs so we can share. Thank your participants and volunteers. Share your Save The Frogs Day story on your website and with your local journalists.

USA Illinois Meredosia National Wildlife Refuge Save The Frogs Day Wetlands flag

Save The Frogs Day 2023 at the Meredosia National Wildlife Refuge in Illinois. You can order your SAVE THE FROGS! Flag here.

Send us the donations you collected

We thank you in advance for collecting donations – your support makes this amazing day possible. Please send your donations to us by mid-May if possible so we can get a tally of funds raised worldwide. Our donation information page lists many ways to donate (e.g. online, phone, by mail). Thanks for helping SAVE THE FROGS!

Donate To SAVE THE FROGS!

Save The Frogs Day 2017 in Diepsloot, South Africa

Contact Us With Questions

Please feel free to contact us with any questions.
– The SAVE THE FROGS! Team

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2023 Save The Frogs Art Contest entry from Quiara Herrera, USA