VFW+Newsletter

**Title**: Veterans of Foreing Wars Post 1989 Quarterly Newsletter
The Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1989 currently has a yearly newletter that is inadequate for their needs. I propose to design and present a quarterly newsletter. The newsletter would go out to current VFW members informing them of VFW events and news at the local and national level.

The newletter will have 4-6 pages, depending on number of events and photographs included. The content would mainly be written by VFW members. The national news section is the only section that would come from an outside source. I am in the process of contacting the appropriate persons to receive permission to inlcude those articles. Since the VFW frequently hosts events that include other organizations and political persons, permission from those organizations or political persons will have to be given to incorporate their information and/or likeness in articles and photographs.

**Potential sections**

 * Local events (up to 2 pages)
 * National news (half to 1 page)
 * Officer’s notes (1 page)
 * Tidbits (1/4 to 1/2 page)
 * Auxiliary Club news/events (1/4 to 1/2 page)
 * Upcoming events (1/3 page)
 * Contributing member letter or articles (up to 1 page)
 * mailing label (1/3 page)

**Audience**

 * men and women (primarily men) ages 40-80
 * median education level: high school
 * US military veterans of all branches of service
 * VFW members, not social members

Y/N ||= Level-of-edit required ||= Rough Edit completed ||= Final Edit Completed || Quartermaster ||= N ||= high ||= N ||= N ||
 * = WorkingTitle/Topic ||= Author-or- source ||= Permission Needed
 * = Local Events ||= Dave ||= N ||= medium ||= Y ||= N ||
 * = National News ||= national website ||= Y ||= none ||= NA ||= NA ||
 * = Officer's Notes ||= Commander
 * = Tidbits ||= Dave ||= N ||= medium ||= Y ||= N ||
 * = Auxiliary Club ||= Debbie ||= N ||= unknown ||= Y ||= N ||
 * = Upcoming Events ||= Dave ||= N ||= medium ||= Y ||= N ||
 * = Contributing articles ||= unknown ||= N ||= high ||= N ||= N ||
 * = mailing label ||= NA ||= NA ||= NA ||= NA ||= NA ||

**Need Edited**

 * VFW Newsletter Style Guide**
 * use AP style consistently: when listing and using commas, do not use comma before and at the end of the list. Example: You should think, read slowly and read again. NOT: You should think, read slowly, and read again.


 * names of bands or groups are capitalized; songs of the band or speech presentations are in quotes. Example: The country band On the Ridge performed their original song "Momma Knows" after singing "The National Anthem."


 * the National News section is taken directly from the VFW National website and according to their requirements, must be used without any editing of //any// kind


 * lightly edit the commander and quartermaster letters as they are in the voice and style of the individual and are more like letters than news stories (and to keep them from biting our heads off)


 * voice for individual articles will be consistent with the occasion, event or subject matter; voice will not be strictly the same throughout the newsletter but will be the same within one article, story or letter