They show your group is willing to respond to a broad base of others, not just those who tend to participate in community activities. Create membership lists with places for entering name, address, day and evening phone and fax numbers, priorities for local improvement, occupation, personal interests, special skills, times available, what the person would be willing to do, and what the person would not be willing to do. Consider using a computer to update lists and sort people by address, priority, and interests. With such a computer database you can easily bring together people who belong together. Membership lists can also form the basis of a telephone tree, a system for getting messages out to large numbers of people.
Newsletters keep group members in touch.
Because most neighbourhood groups deliver to all residents whether members or not, a newsletter helps attract new people.