[Community-service] The Community Service Organizing Meeting.
Darian Smith
dsmithnfb at gmail.com
Wed Jul 13 17:43:30 UTC 2011
On July 3, 2011, 35 individuals who all shared in the interest of
community service, and the vision of it’s prominent presence in
strengthening the National Federation of the Blind gathered to
share experiences, Motivations, and possibilities surrounding an
organized and sustained community service effort, and how it could
be best brought about.
Members of the organizing leadership were on hand to share how they
came together to work on this venture, and what projects the group
had been working on prior to convention. A detailed missionstatement
was read, and words of encouragement shared by 1st vice-president of
the National Federation of the Blind Dr. Fred Schroder.
The meeting was structured but informal. topics of discussion ranged
from Motivations for service involvement, ways to take this idea
home with us, but come back to build a stronger national presence,
to “why community service?” (to this, Dr. Schroder fittingly
responded by saying “why not” to harty applause by all in attendance.
By Meeting’s end, an initial conference call meeting was scheduled
(the details for this meeting to be announced in the coming weeks),
and three goals were set for the upcoming year.
The group has agreed to operate as in interest group for the time
being, and will work to establish a service project to happen around
the time of National convention in Dallas, Texas. The Group Also
Agreed that it would try to get on various state convention ajendas
and have similar meetings to this one, with reports on these meetings
to take place at next years meeting at national convention.
The final agreed upon goal was to work on a recycling project at
national convention, however clarification will be needed on this
project before the group decides if it should move forward on that
particular project.
The meeting adjourned, and about 10 members of the group went out to
a celebratory dinner
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Darian Smith
“My secret? See it, and stay focused on it.”
— Shaquille O'Neal
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