April 28th is a BIG day!

On the surface One Million Bones could be mistaken for a simple project, big, but simple.  Okay, enormous but simple.  Do education and art making workshops, collect the handmade bones, install them on the National Mall. But part of where the power and the audacity come from is the sheer scope of what we're attempting together. 1,000,000 bones. When was the last time you heard of anyone gathering a million of anything?

Consider this:  If Naomi had decided to do a project called 100,000 Bones, we'd be finished by now.  Yep, we'd have exceeded that goal, even. But we don't think that would come anywhere close to having the same impact that 1,000,000 will. And so, we aim big!

And that means that we are always considering the steps we need to take to reach that goal.  

One of our core strategies for 2012 is our Road to Washington campaign.  Mini installations of bones designed and organized by volunteer committees in states across the country.  Kathleen has been working so hard to get this organized, and we are getting there.  We have groups committed in 26 states and almost daily we get google alerts letting us know about stories that have appeared in local papers about the work that each community is doing to make this project their own.  

But, did I mention that we think big?  So we and our partners at Students Rebuild have added a component. In addition to being the culmination of the Road to Washington campaign, we're also making April 28th a National Day of Action.  We are wide open to the possibilities.  Make a bone, host a bone making event, lay bones that you've already made in a public place for your community to see, tweet us, blog about us, change your facebook picture and make your staus updates relevant, or be part of the installation in your state capital. We are happy to see what you can help us accomplish with a National Day of Action. 

If you have questions about the Road to Washington, email kathleen@onemillionbones.org  If you want to talk about ideas for the National Day of Action, send that email to susan@onemillionbones.org

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