<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Hello all,<div> </div><div> Have you had the chance to look at the community service division blog maintained by our very own Chris Parsons?</div><div> well, you ought to when you get a free moment.</div><div> Go Over to: <a href="http://www.nfbcommunityservice.wordpress.com">www.nfbcommunityservice.wordpress.com</a> and see what great pieces have been authored by our fellow federationests.</div><div> Happy reading!</div><div> Darian </div><br><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; widows: auto; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; widows: auto; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Darian Smith</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">President, <span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">National Federation of the Blind</span><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"> Community</span><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"> Service Division</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><a href="mailto:dsmithnfb@gmail.com">dsmithnfb@gmail.com</a></span><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">(415)215-9809</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium;"> twitter: @goldengateace</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium;">Connect with the Community Service Division </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Facebook: search for “NFB Community Service Division”.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; ">Twitter:@NFBCSDivision</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div><span style="orphans: auto; widows: auto;">The National Federation of the Blind knows that blindness is not the</span><br style="orphans: auto; widows: auto;"><span style="orphans: auto; widows: auto;">characteristic that defines you or your future. Every day we raise the</span><br style="orphans: auto; widows: auto;"><span style="orphans: auto; widows: auto;">expectations of blind people, because low expectations create obstacles</span><br style="orphans: auto; widows: auto;"><span style="orphans: auto; widows: auto;">between blind people and our dreams. You can have the life you want;</span><br style="orphans: auto; widows: auto;"><span style="orphans: auto; widows: auto;">blindness is not what holds you back.</span><br style="orphans: auto; widows: auto;"></div><div><span style="orphans: auto; widows: auto;"><br></span></div><div><span style="orphans: auto; widows: auto;">La National Federation of the Blind sabe que la ceguera no es la</span><br style="orphans: auto; widows: auto;"><span style="orphans: auto; widows: auto;">característica que define tu futuro o a ti. Todos los días elevamos las</span><br style="orphans: auto; widows: auto;"><span style="orphans: auto; widows: auto;">expectativas de los ciegos, porque las bajas expectativas crean obstáculos</span><br style="orphans: auto; widows: auto;"><span style="orphans: auto; widows: auto;">entre los ciegos y su futuro. Puedes vivir la vida que queres, la ceguera</span><br style="orphans: auto; widows: auto;"><span style="orphans: auto; widows: auto;">no te lo impide.</span><br style="orphans: auto; widows: auto;"></div><div><br></div></div><p style="orphans: auto; widows: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto;"><font size="3"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> “”...The challenges we face will not be solved with one meeting in one night. Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. </font></font><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3">We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek...” -Barack Obama </font></span><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 26px;"> </span></p><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; orphans: auto; widows: auto;"><span style="orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;"> Your unwanted vehicle can be just what the blind need to make possibilities reality. </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><blockquote type="cite">Donate your car to the National Federation of the Blind today!<br>For more information, please visit: <a href="http://www.carshelpingtheblind.org/">www.carshelpingtheblind.org</a> or call 1-855-659-9314<br></blockquote></div></div></div></div></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br></div></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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