# Newsletter

The Newsletter feature allows you to create and manage email communications with your donors at scale. This powerful tool helps you maintain regular contact with your donor base, share updates about your programs and keep your supporters engaged with your cause.

To navigate to newsletter, click on **"Newsletter"** under **"Communications"** on the main menu.

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The newsletter table lists all the letters created. A newsletter can be first drafted and sent afterwards after approval or it can be sent immediately.&#x20;

The table shows the following details;

* **Title**: The header of the newsletter.
* **Status**: The status of the newsletter. (Sent or Draft).
* **Sender**: The administrator who created and sent the newsletter.
* **Sent**: The date when the newsletter was created.
* **Manage**: This is where you can delete the draft messages from.

You can filter the table to show the newsletters based on there statuses.

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### Creating a newsletter

To create a new newsletter click on the "**new email**" button on top of the table.

This will open up an interface compose the newsletter.

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Creating a newsletter involves three steps.

1. **Compose**

   This step is where you add the title and the message of the body of the newsletter. Clicking **Save Draft** or **Next** takes you to step two - Recipients.
2. **Recipients**

   This step is where you select the donors that you want to receive the newsletter.<br>

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   You can select donors individually by searching the donor in the **Search Donors** field and selecting the results in the **To** dropdown. You can as well select donors by groups via the Tags tab so as to select to group of donors that have the same tag.\
   When done, click **Preview** to go to step three - Preview
3. **Preview**

   This step is where you have a preview of how your newsletter will appear to the donors.<br>

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   When done, click the **Send** button to send the newsletter.

To edit a draft newsletter, click on the title of the newsletter in the newsletter table.

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This will open up a page to show the details of the draft newsletter.

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From here you can edit the newsletter by clicking the **"Edit"** button. You can as well approve and send the newsletter by clicking the **"Approve and Send"** button which will send the newsletter to the donors that were selected when creating the newsletter.

To view the donors to whom the newsletter will be sent click the **"Audience"** tab on the top.

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