International AIDS Candlelight Memorial

Materials & Support

Tips | Logos | Poster | Manual

The Global Health Council provides registered Candlelight Coordinators with the materials needed to organize a memorial in their communities. In this section, you will find all the appropriate material necessary to organize a Candlelight Memorial.

Things to Think About Series
Tips for Planning a Successful Candlelight Memorial

In the coming weeks and months, the Global Health Council will be providing you, the coordinators of the International AIDS Candlelight Memorial, tips on specific topics for creating a successful candlelight memorial. The Things to Think About Series will address topics to help you plan, market, produce, and evaluate your memorials as well as strengthen your community mobilization skills. They will be posted here as well as on the Candlelight Memorial e-mail listserve.

Each topic will offer advice and examples, and we ask you, the coordinators, to share your own ideas about each topic on the listserve at candlelightmemorial@listserve.com. Many of you are already experienced community organizers, but it cannot hurt to have a few helpful reminders. The Global Health Council believes the Candlelight can be much more than just a memorial, but an occasion to share information about HIV/AIDS, to influence policy-makers, and to take action. We hope you can take something away from the series.

Current Topics
Here are the topics that the Council has addressed:

Setting Goals

Possible Future Topics
Here are some possible topics that the Council may address in the coming months:

Setting Goals
Creating Activities
Fundraising
Advertising
Inviting Special Guests
Using the Media
Taking Action
Sustaining the Message
Evaluating Your Memorial

Give Us Your Topic Ideas & Feedback
Is there a topic you would like us to share more information on? Do you have a suggestion about how we can improve the Things to Think About Series? Give us your ideas by e-mailing candlelight@globalhealth.org and we'll try our best to use them.

Logos
The coordinating and sponsoring organizations can now download the International AIDS Candlelight Memorial logo. A standardized and "official" version of the logo is available below in high-resolution formats that can be used for paper and web publications.

	Logos The file, candlelight_logos.zip, contains the color Candlelight logo in multiple formats: tif, eps, psd, gif and jpg. The images vary in size and resolution. Also, there is a black and white gif image. A decompression utility is required to open this file and extract the images: PKZip, WinZip for Windows, or Stuffit Expander for the Macintosh.
	Web Banners To download the banners below, right click on your mouse and select "Save this Image as" or "Save as Target." If you do not have a right mouse button, try holding down the "control" key while clicking on the image - this step should give you the same option to save the image on your desktop.

Poster

2006 Poster - "Lighting the Path to a Brighter Future"

Please click here to download this poster. All registered coordinators will receive multiple copies of this poster in the Coordinator's Manual.

Coordinator's Manual
After an individual or organization registers as a local event coordinator, the Global Health Council mails a Coordinator's Manual containing information and materials designed to assist in the coordination of a local observance of the International AIDS Candlelight Memorial.

To download this year's Coordinator's Manual, please click on a link below*.

International AIDS Candlelight Memorial Coordinator's

Manual - Multilingual (PDF 604K)

International AIDS Candlelight Memorial Coordinator's Manual - English

(PDF 303K)

Conjunto de materiales para Coordinadores - Vigilia Mundial del SIDA (PDF 239K)

International AIDS Candlelight Memorial Coordinator's Manual - version française (PDF 307K)

*This document requires a PDF viewer. Click here to download the free Adobe Acrobat Viewer.

Anyone may take advantage of this online manual, but if you plan to coordinate a local observance of the International AIDS Candlelight Memorial, please register so we may include the name of your city on the event poster and in our other publicity materials.

If you have any questions or comments about this year's manual please contact us at candlelight@globalhealth.org