[Blind-international-students] meeting minutes

[Kate Carroll]

Hey,

If the group goes through with the grant, idea I would be happy to help work
on the grant application. I held a position in college as a Grant Writer for
one of the clubs.

Best.
Kate

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 7:42 AM, Anmol Bhatia <anmolpbhatia at yahoo.com>wrote:

> Thank you Jan for sending out the minutes. I think  Hina you said in the
> last meeting that you also wanted me to also review the mission and goals of
> the organization. As I said at the end of the last meeting that American
> Association for People with Disabilities (AAPD) has a grant that we could
> apply for to do some kind of a project to help people with disabilities. I
> have been thinking a bit and I think what we can think about doing a
> international project and apply for this grant. We could work with Causes
> for
> Change (Zolly's organization) with a project she is working on in Central
> or South America and use this as our contribution to the work she is doing.
> This way we have a established organization and I think it will help us
> build credibility and help us in recruiting new members. Iheld a position in
> t will demenstrate that we are serious and give members something to get
> involved in. As she informed us that she gets requests all the time for
> assistance with helping blind students and individuals and it is a big
> benefit for her to network with us since we have the connection and
> knowledge on how to assist other blind people. So lets think about this and
> if we are interested we really need to start applying for this grant. I
> believe the deadline is in January.
> Anmol
>
>
> I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps
> there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze
> among flowers.
> Hellen Keller
>
> --- On *Wed, 10/13/10, Kate Carroll <carroll.kathryn.e at gmail.com>* wrote:
>
>
> From: Kate Carroll <carroll.kathryn.e at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Blind-international-students] meeting minutes
> To: "Blind International Students Mailing List" <
> blind-international-students at nfbnet.org>
> Date: Wednesday, October 13, 2010, 8:14 PM
>
>
> Thank you so much for sending out the minutes! I would like that I would be
> more likely to make the phoen conferences if they were at 5 or 6 pm.
>
> Than you!
>
> Kate
>
> On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 9:22 AM, hina altaf <hinaaltaf1983 at gmail.com<http://us.mc538.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=hinaaltaf1983@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
>
> thank you very much jan for sending out the meeting minutes. I
> appreciate your help and yes we all need to work on ideas on mission
> statements and goals. so if any of you have any suggestions please
> either email on the list or email me and jan and we will discuss.
> anmol also said that since he will be in class at our regular meeting
> time and if we can move it to later time in the  ebening, will that
> work for anyone and does any one have any conflict with moving it to a
> later time?thanks. Hina.
>
> On 10/13/10, jan wright <jan.wrightfamily5 at gmail.com<http://us.mc538.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=jan.wrightfamily5@gmail.com>>
> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > Here are meeting minutes for our last meeting.
> > october 3, 2010
> > The meeting came to order at 3:10 P.M. Eastern Standard time.
> > attendance:
> > Hina, Anmol, Imran, Julie, Zaby and Jan.
> > The first item of business was the name of the organization.
> > There were many suggestions.
> > A motion was made and  yunonnymously approved to accept the name of
> > "Blind International Network.
> > The goals were discussed, again and Hina and Jan were to get a copy to
> > officially read by the next meeting. Hina and Jan were also to put
> > together a simple mission statement for the group.
> > We will approve the goals and the mission statement in the next meeting.
> > We talked about publicizing the group. We discussed partnering with
> > Julie's organization, as well as other organizations with the same
> > goals. Networking will be a key component to our group's success.'
> > We encouraged the members to promote the list to others and even those
> > in other organizations.
> >
> > We discussed moving the meeting time from 3:00 to 5:00 or 6:00.
> > The meeting would still be on the same day. Many of the members
> > wondered if a later time would yield more participants. We appreciate
> > any input from the list.
> > The next meeting date will be October 17, 2010, but the time will be
> > announced by the president.
> >
> >
> > The meeting was adjourned at 3:48 P.M.
> > Respectfully submitted,
> > Jan Wright
> >
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