Nonprofit Newsletter Template — Annual Report Highlights

Turn a 40-page annual report into an email donors actually finish: three headline numbers, one story the totals can't tell, and a link to the full document.

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The prompt

Two ways to build this email in plain language. The fastest is Temway's in-editor assistant — open the chat drawer in the email editor and paste the recipe below. Or connect Claude or ChatGPT via Temway's MCP and paste it there; the agent builds the email step by step. Either way, adapt the copy and colors to your brand.

  • An email is a top-to-bottom stack of blocks — the recipe follows that order.
  • A [layout] step becomes a single image (great for heroes); everything else stays live text and links.
  • Theme the footer to match — the recipe's last step does exactly that.

Want this exact email? Click Use this template below to clone it into your workspace, then ask the in-editor assistant to rebrand it. Over MCP, tell your agent to clone the Temway share 9j9zsVA8eCDWf6jzM6H2D and rebrand. For the full model, point an MCP agent at get_conceptemail-structure, layouts-vs-emails, design-recipes.

Nobody reads the annual report. They read the email about the annual report — so this one carries the three numbers that matter, one story that explains what the numbers felt like on the ground, and a single link for the people who do want all forty pages. Warm paper tones, a serif face, and gold figures big enough to read at arm’s length.

Snapshot

  • Goal: get donors to absorb the year’s results in ninety seconds, and give the curious minority a route to the full report.
  • Audience & tone: people who already gave. Institutional but human — grateful without gushing, specific instead of sweeping.
  • Palette: page #edeeef · container #ffffff · text #1c2b33 / #667075 (muted) · accent #0f766e
  • Font: Georgia, serif
  • Artwork: none — fully native blocks.

Build recipe

Each step is one block in the flat stack, top to bottom. [native] = a real email block. [layout] = a free-form layout embedded as a single image.

  1. [native] Logo — logo. Brand mark, center-aligned.
  2. [native] Kicker 1 — text. “2026 Annual Report”, fontSize: 14, color #0f766e, center, uppercase.
  3. [native] Headline — text. “What your giving built this year”, fontSize: 28, color #1c2b33, center.
  4. [native] Body copy 1 — text. “Every gift below became something concrete, and one story the totals cannot tell by themselves.”, fontSize: 16, color #1c2b33, center.
  5. [native] Story title 1 — text. “14,320”, fontSize: 20, color #1c2b33, center.
  6. [native] Kicker 2 — text. “Meals served”, fontSize: 14, color #667075, center, uppercase.
  7. [native] Rule 1 — divider. full-measure rule, 1px, color #e9e9e9.
  8. [native] Story title 2 — text. “38”, fontSize: 20, color #1c2b33, center.
  9. [native] Kicker 3 — text. “New partner schools”, fontSize: 14, color #667075, center, uppercase.
  10. [native] Rule 2 — divider. full-measure rule, 1px, color #e9e9e9.
  11. [native] Story title 3 — text. “92%”, fontSize: 20, color #1c2b33, center.
  12. [native] Kicker 4 — text. “Share going to programs”, fontSize: 14, color #667075, center, uppercase.
  13. [native] Kicker 5 — text. “The story behind the numbers”, fontSize: 14, color #0f766e, center, uppercase.
  14. [native] Body copy 2 — text. “One volunteer started in March and now teaches the Tuesday class herself.”, fontSize: 16, color #667075, center.
  15. [native] Primary CTA — button. Label “Download the full report”, fill #0f766e, color #ffffff, shapeStyle: ‘0_1’, center.
  16. [native] Footer rule — divider. short (96px) rule, 1px, color #e9e9e9.
  17. [native] Footer social — social. Icon row, social.color #0f766e, style circle-outline, center.
  18. [native] Footer address — address. Postal address + unsubscribe, address.color #667075, address.fontFamily Georgia, serif, center.

Make it yours

  1. Swap the three figures for yours, and put the least flattering one in the middle — a report that only reports wins reads like marketing.
  2. Replace the story with one person, one month, one outcome. Resist summarising a programme; the specificity is what the numbers can’t do.
  3. Keep the gold figures against the warm paper, or move to your brand accent — just keep the figure and its label in the same two-tone pairing so the eye groups them.
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