Wednesday, June 9, 2010

First place for the first time.

Our UGM newsletter won First Place for printed newsletter and Best in Show for this year’s annual Media Awards for the Association of Gospel Rescue Missions. We beat some of the largest rescue missions in the country who often hire outside firms for their publications and can afford full color. I just hope our newsletter can offer as much competition next year after redesigning its look to match our new brand!

 Here is what the AGRM website had to say about the contest:
"AGRM Media Innovation Competition was launched to recognize rescue missions who were making valuable progress in innovating print and online offerings. Call for entries attracted hundreds of submissions from rescue missions across the country in every budget size. AGRM awarded three Best in Show winners, as well as Award of Excellence, Award of Merit and Honorable Mention prizes for each category at the 2010 AGRM Conference in St. Charles, Illinois May 9-12.  Congratulations to this years Media Innovation Competition award winners!"

The winner (a 6 page, 2-color newsletter with a response card and envelope to match):














Our new look for Mission News:













If you want to see an online archive of our newsletters and read what is current go here.

In other great news, our website got third place and we got second place for our Sucess Story.

2 comments:

Licorice Lover said...

Congratulations from a former writer of three different mission newsletters for the Sunday Breakfast Mission in Philadelphia, PA; Open Door Mission in Omaha, NE; and People's City Mission in Lincoln, NE. I know it is a lot of work. Good job!

Jessica Morgan said...

Thank you! You sure know the work of newsletters!

PS - I recognize you from comments on Barb's Following Oswald blog.