Annual Reports And Newsletters

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One of the responsibilities of Corporate Communications is creating the annual report and newsletters. National 4-H Council, and its two predecessor organizations, always issued an annual report and basically had some form of newsletter that went out to varying audiences.

Annual reports highlighted the year's accomplishments, donor contributions, financial reports and a listing of the board and leadership. They also played a major role in providing visibility and promotion for the organization. While the earliest annual reports of the National Committee on Boys and Girls Club Work, prior to 1925, were primarily typed and copied, by the late 1920's they began using photographs in the annual reports. Today, the annual reports are full color and electronically distributed through email and the Council website.

Likewise, the newsletters of the National 4-H Service Committee, National 4-H Foundation, and earlier years of National 4-H Council, were printed; and, use of full color came surprisingly late. It was probably in the late 1990's that newsletters transitioned over to being electronic, and even then, recipients were given the option of having the newsletter mailed to them or sent electronically for several years.