How to create and send a campaign message through MailChimp?

1. Make sure the desired group you are wanting to send to has been Sycrhonized to MC from Helpful Village
2. Log onto Villages MailChimp Account 
3. Go to Campaign → Create a New Email Campaign

Click → Email 

Name the Campaign & Select the Segment Tag you would like to send a message to - Make sure Group (segment) is synchronized from HV

Choose Audience "Helpful Village" and cick on New Segment

Press on  "Add filter link"

Choose Members, or whatever other group you want to write to.

You can use more than one filter in your segment.

In this example, we are combining a group (Active Members) with a tag (Knitting). We can choose if we want to have both requirements (AND) or any of those (OR). Once that is done, click on the button "Review segment".

Click on "Apply segment"

And we can finally save the recipients of this email as a segment combining several conditions. 

Click → Design Email 

There are different templates that you can use to showcase your Email Message - For more help on designing an Email template:

https://mailchimp.com/help/create-a-template-with-the-template-builder/