#ThanksForTheDough Campaign
Supporting the Legislature's proposals to invest in K-12 education through progressive revenue. We need your help by April 6, 2025 to ensure our public schools get funded!!
Let's tell them #ThanksForTheDough!
The #ThanksForTheDough campaign is a way for parents, students, educators, and community members to voice our support and gratitude for the proposals and our wealthiest neighbors and businesses who will be funding our public schools if these new taxes are adopted.
The new tax proposals on the ultra-wealthy and large corporations (such as on folks who have more than $50 million in financial assets) could generate billions of dollars per year of additional resources for our schools. (Read more about the proposals from WSPTA ).
We believe a campaign with positive framing could help our advocacy become more compelling, engaging, and effective. Supporting new taxes is not always popular and some wealthy corporations have already campaigned against any new taxes.
We believe expressing gratitude and showing the positive outcomes could help everyone feel valued and motivated to support these revenue proposals!
The Recipe
🎂 Here's how we'll bake this cake:
By April 6, you can record a short video (30 - 45 seconds) expressing gratitude for this investment in public schools and highlighting what the additional $1,000 per student could provide!
Click below to either record a video on the site (no log-in required) OR upload a pre-recorded video--you can do this on your phone!
🔗Billion Dollar Bake Sale Washington's #ThanksForTheDough (English)
🔗Billion Dollar Bake Sale Washington's #GraciasPorLaMasa (Español)
The Billion Dollar Bake Sale team and Washington Education Association other coalition partners will collect these videos and use them to urge our State legislators and Governor to follow through and pass these proposals! We'll post montage videos and likely upload some to social media through the end of session with #ThanksfortheDough!
What to Say
👥This is a community collaboration and your creativity will be the key to a delicious final product. Here are some guidelines:
Short: Aim for 30 - 45 seconds, preferably no more than 1 minute.
Sweet: We want a positive tone that invites everyone - legislators, governor, super-wealthy individuals, and large corporations - to be a valued part of the coalition that will make our schools thrive.
Juicy: Give specific examples of how more funding would improve your school or district, and/or of programs or staff you fear might be cut without additional funding.
Just a hint of spicy: Got a tasty morsel that will make your message provocative and memorable, without overwhelming the palette? Toss it in there!
Sample Recording Template:
Hi, my name is _______ and I'm a [parent/student/educator/community member] in the _______ school district in [insert town/city/county name]. An extra $1000 in funding per student will [help our school _______ /help our school avoid cuts to _______ ]. This will mean so much to our community because _______ .
So on behalf of _______ school, Thanks For The Dough!
Icing on the Cake
Want to go the extra mile to make our creation the talk of the town? Here are a few more ideas of how to put a cherry on top:
Wear your "red for ed" clothing (you can order some here!)
Bake some cookies, cupcakes, brownies etc. and display or hold them during the video
Have your students appear or speak in the video – or better yet, have your student submit their own video!
Set up a "station" at an upcoming school or community event and invite people to click the link and record a video!
🔗Link to Flyer with QR code (English)
🔗Link to Flyer with QR code (Español)
Catch families and students at drop-off or pick-up and have them record a video
In addition to uploading to our site, post on your own social media (Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, X, BlueSky) with the hashtag #ThanksForTheDough. You can tag your legislators in the post!
Get together with others in your community and do a video together
Video release statement: By uploading a video, you consent to the use of such recordings by electronic media and print publications, including social media, newspapers, television, radio and other sources for all purposes as determined by the Billion Dollar Bake Sale campaign and its partners. If children are in the video, please ensure their guardians have provided consent.