[Community-service] discussion starter

[Jonathan Franks]

Hello all,
I first met Darian at National Convention last year and voiced to him
that I wanted to get involved. Soon after I returned home I looked up
the List on http://www.nfbnet.org and have been involved ever since.

I was just talking to my chapter president this past weekend regarding
the community service that we have done over the past year. We were
both in agreement that community service has definitely helped build
our chapter in membership, it has helped us in forming relationships
amongst our chapter members and community members with working
together and has helped shape the minds of our chapter members in
realizing that we can provide community service instead of being the
ones receiving it.

I was very happy to run an informal Texas Community Service Committee
meeting at our State Convention on November 13th. There were
individuals from numerous parts of the state as well as some
individuals from Louisiana visiting the meeting. We even had our
National Representative Annil Lewis stop by and talk  about how he has
been involved with community service and what the values of community
service were to each of us. I soon will be talking with my affiliate
president to discuss the optimistic future of this committee.

Warm Regards,
Jonathan Franks
Board Member
National Federation of the Blind Community Service Division
On 11/24/15, Nella Foster via Community-service
<community-service at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> I think Darian sent a post about the 75 days of service that was forwarded
> to
> all the division lists.  I know I first learned about this group from a post
> on
> the Agriculture and Equestrian list.  I thought it sounded like a great idea
> and
> wanted to learn more.  I've been volunteering for 25 years and believe it
> is
> important for everyone, blind or sighted.  I'm really interested in
> learning
> what types of volunteer jobs other blind people are doing and how they are
> doing them.
>
> Thank you to all those who got this group started.
>
> Nella
>
> Quoting Darian Smith via Community-service <community-service at nfbnet.org>:
>
>> Hi fellow listers,
>>
>>   figured that sense I noticed the list has been pretty quiet for a
>> while,
>> that it would be a good idea to see if I  could help to liven things up a
>> bit.
>>   our list has a good number of folks on it.  I would  suspect that many
>> of
>> us learned about the list via a friend, or the division meetings, or by
>> any
>> number of different means.
>>  I also would  imagine that  everyone has a reason for hanging out on the
>> list (want to learn something, want to give something, etc).
>>   So I have two questions for your:
>> 1. how’d you hear about the list?
>> 2. what is it that you want to find out from other members of the list?
>> something you want to see the division do? something you would like to
>> do?
>>   Thanks so much and I look forward to what you all have to say!
>>   Darian
>>
>>
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