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<DIV><FONT color=#000000>Hi all,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000>Thanks for sharing this, Darian. I will second the
comment that the division’s Twitter is a great source of information on all
things community service.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000>I really like this article, and I think its author has
some really good things to say about getting involved in service and finding out
what you truly enjoy doing. The main thing that struck me is the point the
author made about being open to new experiences and just getting out there and
trying something you think you’re interested in, even if you don’t think you
know enough about how to do it. Often you do end up learning the most valuable
information through emersion. I know this is one of the biggest struggles I’ve
had personally in getting more involved in service. I’m a very structured
person. It’s a lot easier for me to go and do something if I know exactly how
it’s going to go and what is going to be asked of me. What this author is
saying, though, is that the key is just to get out there and you will learn what
you need to learn as you go along, and that’s okay. I know thinking like this
makes me a little nervous, and I would imagine that this fear of the unknown is
what ultimately leads many blind people to decide not to serve because we worry
that we won’t know how to perform the tasks that are needed. This article
stresses that the key is just to say yes. Don’t think too much about it. In full
disclosure, I’m not saying that this is easy. I’ll be the first to say that it’s
certainly not for me, but I think it’s advice worth trying. And what better time
to try than during the 75 Days of Service, when there’s a whole group of people
there to support you and talk through any worries or challenges you might
have.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000>The author asks us how we move from passively skimming
headlines to caring to actively doing. This is a question I’ve wondered about
for some time, and it’s why I love what we’re doing with the 75 Days of Service
because we’re not just talking about what issues are important to us and what
we’d like to do about them or what we wish someone else would do about them;
we’re actually making plans and taking an active role in giving back to our
communities.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000>The following passage from the article resonated with
me the most: “<FONT face=Calibri><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">By living
fully—not turning away from things that are different, complex, messy,
intense—you will find how you are capable of doing meaningful
work.”</FONT></FONT> This speaks to me not just as a person who wants to get
more involved in service, not just as a blind person, but as a person in
general, and I think it’s something we can all take to heart in our
lives.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000>Chris</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=community-service@nfbnet.org
href="mailto:community-service@nfbnet.org">Darian Smith via
Community-service</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, April 14, 2015 11:25 AM</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> [Community-service] Discussion Starter.</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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NFB Community Service Division twitter is a great source of
information, resources and ideas from all over the service community.
<DIV>A blog post from the “Great Non-Profits” blog seemed like
something too good not to share and we hope you find it too good not to
respond to.</DIV>
<DIV>below is the text from the blog entry.</DIV>
<DIV> Darian </DIV>
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Schwartz, the famous programmer and internet activist who died before his time,
said: “You should be asking yourself all the time what is the most important
thing in the world I could be working on right now, and if you are not working
on that, why aren’t you?”</DIV>
<DIV
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days in Silicon Valley, I meet people who are smart and working at a company
“changing the world.” I don’t want to rain on their parade, but developing
another instant messaging service is not “changing the world.”</DIV>
<DIV
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not that these people are intentionally neglecting the larger issues in the
world, or that they don’t care.</DIV>
<DIV
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believe it’s because some people don’t yet know what is important <EM
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them </EM>and what they <EM
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do</EM> about it.</DIV>
<DIV
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do you move from skimming news headlines to caring about the issue? And then
from caring about the issue to wanting to make it what you want to spend your
time working on?</DIV>
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to Find Yourself and Change the World</EM></H3>
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encourage people to take this into their own hands. To learn about yourself and
what you are capable of. Take the initiative and open yourself up to the broader
experiences of the world—to experiences that might be new, exciting, emotional,
and sometimes physically uncomfortable.</DIV>
<DIV
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of the most meaningful experiences of my life was volunteering at a human rights
nonprofit and interviewing refugees in a camp on the Thai-Burma border. There
was no running water, no electricity. We sat on the bare floors of their
thatched huts. I listened to their stories of their lives. Family
members would pick up the guitar and take turns singing traditional folk
songs.</DIV>
<DIV
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came back to my last year of Harvard Law School and felt no temptation to go to
the recruiting events of the big law firms. I was one of the very few who
did not have a job upon graduation. I continued to write and
eventually fell into journalism. I was so grateful that I had found
something that was important to me, that I could call my work.</DIV>
<DIV
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truly realize <EM
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is important to you</EM> and what you <EM
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do</EM> to make a difference—learn by doing. Don’t worry if you don’t know
enough yet about the issue—you will learn it by doing it.</DIV>
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Curious—Say Yes</EM></H3>
<DIV
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you are invited to visit a low-income neighborhood in Oakland and tour their
community garden, do it. Go and don’t be afraid to talk to the people who live
there and learn about their community. If the Rainforest Action Network has a
public talk about orangutans in the Sumatran rainforest threatened by loggers,
go listen and meet the people involved. If there’s a screening of <EM
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of Two</EM>, an award-winning movie about cystic fibrosis and discussion with
the producers, go to the movie and stay for the discussion. If your local open
space preserve has a family day with guided bird-watching tours, go check it out
and hear from the guides about how they are building more public access
trails.</DIV>
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are so many public events open to all who are curious to learn more about social
causes. Say yes to these invitations.</DIV>
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with a Nonprofit </EM></H3>
<DIV
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you have an interest in children? Volunteer with CASA, a national
nonprofit, to visit a young child near you who is placed in foster home. Get a
huge smile from your foster-child when you offer to take them to see a
movie.</DIV>
<DIV
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you want to learn more about health on the frontlines? Volunteer at the local
free clinic that serves the poorest of our society—help people get screened for
high blood pressure or get training to be a peer counsellor to at-risk young
people.</DIV>
<DIV
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you have skills such as writing or design? You’ve got a valuable skill that
almost any nonprofit could use. Take action and call them up even if you don’t
see a volunteer posting. Ask them if you could help them with their
email newsletter, brochure for an upcoming fundraiser, or their website.</DIV>
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was asked about how he became an activist for Africa. Once I visited
Africa, he said, “I saw it, I heard it and I felt it.”</DIV>
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will gain knowledge and confidence. By living fully—not turning away from things
that are different, complex, messy, intense—you will find how you are capable of
doing meaningful work.</DIV></DIV></ARTICLE>
<DIV><STRONG
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asking yourself along the way: “What is the most important thing in the world I
could be working on right now, and if I’m not, why aren’t
I?”</STRONG> </DIV><BR><BR><BR>
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