ACT Memo

As you requested, this is your ACT Self-Advocacy Resource Network Memo facilitating a national dialogue among self-advocates and supporters and a clearinghouse for materials and training that support self-advocacy.

December 19, 2007

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ACT Supporter’s Quiz

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ACT Supporter’s Quiz

We know it’s hard to decide how much to contribute to a good cause. We hope the following quiz can help you determine the most appropriate level at which to support our work. See how you do.

Instructions: Choose from the following numbers to answer each question below:

2900

438

4800

104

400

600

125

970

1.	How many people took part in ACT’s annual Music for Social Change day in Duluth, Minnesota last September?
2.	When the ADA Road to Freedom bus joined ACT organizers in marking graves at the cemetery of the former St. Peter State Hospital, how many new headstones were placed that day?
3.	ACT hosted its 28-year anniversary party in October. How many self-advocates and allies attended?
4.	ACT was a leader in developing a new statewide self-advocacy network called Self-Advocates Minnesota. Before the network was launched in February 2007, how many self-advocates approved the SAM goals, methods, values, administrative structure, and funding goals?
5.	How many self-advocates from the state of Minnesota took part in the 2007 Self-Advocacy conference, co-sponsored by ACT in May?
6.	When a Minneapolis theater comedy troupe used the word “retard” in a 2007 show title, how many self-advocates and allies came to our public forum to talk about it?
7.	How many Minnesotans attended ACT’s Common Vision or Leadership Day sessions this year?
8.	How many leadership training kits did ACT distribute nationally in 2007?
9.	How many self-advocates and allies around the nation have asked to receive our weekly e-mail on self-advocacy?
10.	How many cities did the ACT history exhibit visit around the country in 2007?
11.	ACT’s history exhibit is now on display at the Budapest Museum in Hungary. How many miles away from St. Paul is the exhibit?

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Quiz Answers

1.	30. Please click and support ACT at the $30 “Sing a New Song” level.
2.	In all, 438 new gravestones with names and birth/death dates were given to our sisters and brothers at the state hospital who died and were buried by the state in unmarked graves. (In the last 13 years, we’ve marked 4,000 graves.) Please click and support ACT at the $438 “Remembering with Dignity” level.
3.	75. Please click and support ACT at the $75 “Power in Numbers” level.
4.	104 self-advocates met at four community events to review the SAM model and give the green light to proceed. Please click and support ACT at the $104 “Green Light!” level.
5.	600 people came to not only listen to but also lead and co-lead workshops on assertive communication, organizing, voting, and dancing. Please click and support ACT at the $600 “Lead. Change. Empower.” level.
6.	125. Please click and support ACT at the $125 “Offense Taken” level.
7.	970. Please click and support ACT at the $970 “Building Leaders” level.
8.	We distributed 400 units to self-advocacy groups around the country. Each kit provides self-guided training based on our successful workshops using grassroots, popular education techniques. Please click and support ACT at the $400 “Tools for Change” level.
9.	More than 2,900 people are a part of the Self-Advocacy Resource Network and take part in this national dialogue on rights, dignity, and leadership for people with developmental and other disabilities. Please click and support ACT at the $2,900 “Shoot Me an E-Mail” level.
10.	45 stops in its travels with the ADA bus tour. Please click and support ACT at the $45 “Get on the Bus” level.
11.	The exhibit, translated into Hungarian, is 4,800 miles away from ACT’s office in St. Paul, Minnesota. Please click and support ACT at the $4,800 “Small World” level.

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3.	Final Thoughts This quiz is a lighthearted way of highlighting some of the things we’ve been up to at ACT over the year. We know that deciding where to invest your dollars is a serious decision, and we invite you to visit our Web site at www.selfadvocacy.org to find out more about our programs, methods, and board of directors. Better yet, give us a call at 800-641-0059. We would love to talk to you in person about the work of self-advocacy. Thank you for considering ACT as a place to invest in leaders. [Return to top]


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What is the most translated document in the world, according to the Guinness Book of World Records?

a.	The Bible
b.	The Koran
c.	The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

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