Exciting opportunity! I help relaunched my organization’s newsletter which they have not had one in a really long time, so long nobody can remember the last newsletter they sent out. I also figured out why they haven’t been able to create a consistent newsletter. Honestly, acquiring articles (or in most cases ended up writing them) was like herding cats. I don’t recommend herding cats.

I realized most of my posts are about Freedom Schools but really that is just a snippet of my days here at Community Development for All People (CD4AP). My current biggish project that is 98% complete is the relaunching of CD4AP’s newsletter. This was quite the workflow to coordinate and design, I haven’t created anything near an eight page spread since I was in yearbook. A special thanks for Kelsey Sommers, the Office and Communications Assistant who I worked with in this endeavor, she help organize the content on the shared drive and a lot of other crucial tasks so I could have more focus on assembling the newsletter.

One great thing I love about this experience is that literally every day in the office I feel like I am reliving case studies from my numerous nonprofit course work. My experience with this newsletter was no exception. We studied how small to medium nonprofits usually strain in communication personnel and strategy due to the lack of staff interest or availability to put extra effort in areas that they may not understand the benefit of such extra efforts. I also observed something similar at my last appointment, the Communication Intern  at the Multicultural Center at Ohio State as well as the Vice President of Communications for the Latino Student Association.

Long story short, junior year really taught me to be understanding and mellow when going about communication tasks and your team members. The organization does so much good work in a lot of different places (community gardening, summer youth program, produce distribution, worship services, free store, free lunches, housing resettlements, just to name a few) that it was crazy trying to formulate the newsletter but I was able to keep my cool. Again, shout out to Kelsey for doing an outstanding job with me in this process.

Waiting final approval from my supervisor, can’t wait to link the newsletter to here!

Amber