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As with any other organization, churches find that open and informative communication makes congregants see themselves as an essential part of the church and want to increase their participation...

The best way for a church to grow is to let the congregation know what is happening from week to week. A church newsletter will accomplish a great deal from letting others know needs of members to...

If you are wanting to start an online outreach like for example reaching out to grieving families, this article will show you how to start just that. Eventually you can make your outreach local as...

When you look at your neighborhood newsletter, do you think something just isn't right? It's gray and bland and without any pizazz. Content certainly plays into the problem. The better the...

The flag of your newsletter is the top part of the front page, which states the name of the publication and a variety of important details, including the date and volume of the issue. This is your...

Neighborhood newsletters can be so much more than calendars and recipe lists. There is, of course, the news of the area to include. But one underused style of writing for such a publication is...

You've just been asked to write a story for your neighborhood newsletter, but you don't know where to begin. You've heard something about the principles of: who, what, when, where and why? For a...

You don't just want to run board minutes and a homeowner's association balance sheet in your neighborhood newsletter. But where are the ideas? Nothing ever seems to happen around your area. Wrong!...

Some people put recipes in there, and some put jokes. You want your neighborhood newsletter to be more important than that. But where to begin? It starts with story choice and a local focus. Your...

A reasonable goal for a neighborhood newsletter is to sell at least enough advertising to pay for the printing costs of the publication. The bigger the neighborhood, and the better the area, the...

The most important element for a page designer is the art. But most neighborhood newsletters work backward in that regard. They fill each page with text, then scramble to find something to...