By: Eric Schroeder, CC Colison, Morgan Coleman, and Abraham Massie
The Newsletter has been circulating almost as long as B’More Clubhouse has been open. These days, we get together to plan the newsletter once a month. It happens during the BizCom Planning Meeting on Mondays. We list out the sections of the newsletter one at a time and hear each other’s ideas for what would make good, relevant, exciting articles. We think of strategies to promote certain events and highlight or uplift particular people (like members, staff, or board members). We collect ideas for what articles to write based on a layout plan, which includes Program Features, Employment Features, Standard Review and New Projects around the Clubhouse. We also highlight members’ creativity in the Creative Corner section of the newsletter which can include poetry, art, photos of creative events–and even jokes!
So after we make the layout plan for the month, we start putting our ideas together. Sometimes the articles are really easy to write. Other times, after we’ve started writing, we find out the article doesn’t work as well as we thought it would. But we don’t see that as a bad thing, it’s just another opportunity to be creative!
While people are writing the content, some of our visually creative members update the Calendar template on Canva, changing the colors for the month and starting to add pictures of events to bring the articles to life.
After the content is written, we ask for feedback around the BizCom unit and start proofreading each article. This is how we get everyone’s point of view, getting the “creative juices” flowing and making sure the final product is exactly what the team wants it to be.
Writing the Newsletter is important work for us to do every month. We send it out to the community, which includes members, families, and even other Clubhouses. It’s a meaningful way to stay connected with what’s going on at B’More, so even if people aren’t able to come to the Work-Ordered Day, they trust they’re still a part of our community.
Members can submit articles for us to print in the newsletter at any time in person or by email (members@bmoreclubhouse.org, write “Newsletter article” in the subject line).
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