Are you a journalism, strategic comm or environmental studies student who
wants to learn about newsletters for nonprofits?
If you can add 1 or 2 credits to this semester’s schedule, an independent
study/service learning project in journalism can help you do just that.
Between now and May, I need a student to coordinate the national biennial
Audubon Chapter Newsletter Contest.
The coordination task involves using already-designed templates to:
1) Send an e-mail invitation to all Newsletter Editors to submit
newsletters and also to volunteer to judge. Multiple copies of each
newsletter are requested. Chapters are divided into categories by size,
and they specify that size on an entry form that is included with this
message.
2) Divide the judges among the various size categories. When the deadline
has been reached and newsletters received, divide the newsletters among
the judges and mail them out with a form on which to submit their judging
results.
3) Receive the judges' results via email and tally them to produce a list
of winners.
4) Create certificates and mail them to be signed and delivered at a May
meeting.
5) Write a summary of the results.
The academic component of the independent study will explore the standards
for newsletter quality and effectiveness.
You can see the products from the last contest at
http://www.audubon.org/local/cso/chapter_awards.html. Download
2004AudubonChapterNews.
Please contact me via e-mail ASAP if you are interested.
Judi Hetrick
Assistant professor of journalism and
and Oxford Audubon newsletter editor