[Community-service] Community-service Digest, Vol 60, Issue 7

[Darian Smith]

DearJordan,
  I don’t believe that you’ll get much an argument that advocating for things such as walkable sidewalks and  access to transportation  are beneficial to the community.
  however the motivation for such things is to bring about a outcome beneficial to one’s  portion of society ( seniors or folks with disabilities for example)
  What I think is really inspiring and exciting about community service is that it allows people the opportunity to do something that has no immediate or perceived impact on them. 
 thoughts?
  Darian  .
 .
  own 
> On Feb 13, 2015, at 2:31 PM, Jordan Mirander via Community-service <community-service at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Dear Chris Parsons, I disagree with YOU.  I feel that volunteering on
> a political campaign does efect the people in our community.  So, I
> feel that it is community service.  What a politician does affects
> everyone.  So, I feel that it should go under community service.  Too.
> In my opinion,  advocacy is when you attend meetings, conventions,
> seminars, and conferences that are for a specific cause.  Like, for
> example, I am probably going to the Riverside County Transportation
> Commission meeting on March 7, because public transportation is a big
> issue with people who are Blind.
> 
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>>   1. Re: service through legislation? (rbacchus228 at gmail.com)
>>   2. Re: service through legislation? (Chris Parsons)
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>> Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2015 10:06:00 -0500
>> From: rbacchus228 at gmail.com
>> To: Darian Smith <dsmithnfb at gmail.com>,	Community Service Discussion
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>> Subject: Re: [Community-service] service through legislation?
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>> I think doing this kind of work is community service it is important to do
>> work like this legislative campaign can help others in the community
>> 
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>>> On Feb 11, 2015, at 10:03 PM, Darian Smith via Community-service
>>> <community-service at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi all,
>>> Something that has  periodically come up  in conversation  as it relates
>>> to what we do as the Community Service Division is the idea of activities
>>> such as working on legislative campaigns, or pushing local or national
>>> legislation and  whether or not it would be considered community service?
>>> 
>>> I am most  interested to know your thoughts.
>>> thanks so much,
>>> Darian
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>> Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2015 15:54:20 -0600
>> From: "Chris Parsons" <christine-parsons at sbcglobal.net>
>> To: "Community Service Discussion List" <community-service at nfbnet.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Community-service] service through legislation?
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>> Hi all,
>> 
>> This is a really interesting question. My opinion is that activities like
>> this would fall under advocacy rather than community service. As Roanna
>> pointed out, these types of activities do ultimately have the potential to
>> help people in the community, but I think that there is a difference between
>> 
>> advocacy activities, which tend to more directly involve politics and
>> legislation, and community service activities, which can certainly involve a
>> 
>> specific cause--hunger and homelessness, animal welfare, education, etc.,
>> but which I think also involve more direct means of providing help for or
>> impacting a particular population or issue, such as cleaning up a park,
>> volunteering at an animal shelter, or packing food at a food pantry.
>> 
>> Chris
>> 
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Darian Smith via Community-service
>> Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 9:03 PM
>> To: Community Service Discussion List
>> Subject: [Community-service] service through legislation?
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>> Hi all,
>> Something that has  periodically come up  in conversation  as it relates to
>> 
>> what we do as the Community Service Division is the idea of activities such
>> 
>> as working on legislative campaigns, or pushing local or national
>> legislation and  whether or not it would be considered community service?
>> I am most  interested to know your thoughts.
>> thanks so much,
>>  Darian
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