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<div class="page"><h1 class="title">Getting Started</h1><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div id="safari-reader-element-marker" style="position: relative; top: 88%;" class=""></div>Have an idea for a service project – like getting a group together to volunteer each week at a homeless shelter, or reading to kids at your local library? Learn how to turn your volunteer idea into a successful service project using our do-it-yourself toolkits below.<div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class=""><strong class="">Community Renewal</strong></p><p class="">At a time when many Americans are struggling with the loss of their job or their home, you can help meet some of their most basic needs by working to reduce hunger, secure donated clothing and strengthen community resources.</p>
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<li class=""><a href="?q=site-page/toolkits/food-bank/index" class="">Toolkit: Support Local Food Banks</a> | <a href="/sites/default/files/ctools/food-bank_esp.pdf" target="_blank" class="">en Espanol</a></li>
<li class=""><a href="?q=site-page/toolkits/clothing-drive/index" class="">Toolkit: Organize a Clothing Drive</a> | <a href="/sites/default/files/ctools/clothing-drive_esp.pdf" target="_blank" class="">en Español</a></li>
</ul><p class=""><strong class="">Disaster Preparedness</strong></p><p class="">Help your community prepare for disasters.</p>
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<li class=""><a href="?q=site-page/toolkits/disaster/index" class="">Toolkit: Preparing Your Community for Disasters</a></li>
</ul><p class=""><strong class="">Education</strong></p><p class="">Help close the achievement gap and reduce “summer learning loss” by reading with kids or organizing a book drive.</p>
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<li class=""><a href="?q=site-page/toolkits/read-with-kids/index" class="">Toolkit: Read with Children</a></li>
<li class=""><a href="?q=site-page/toolkits/book-drive/index" class="">Toolkit: Organize a Book Drive</a> | <a href="/sites/default/files/ctools/book-drive_esp.pdf" class="">en Español</a></li>
<li class=""><a href="/sites/default/files/ctools/STEM_mentoring_toolkit.pdf" class="">Toolkit: Becoming a Stem Mentor</a></li>
</ul><p class=""><strong class="">Energy and Environment</strong></p><p class="">Join your friends and neighbors to reduce energy by auditing your home and helping maintain public lands.</p>
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<li class=""><a href="?q=site-page/toolkits/audit-home/index" class="">Toolkit: Audit Your Home</a> | <a href="/sites/default/files/ctools/audit-home_esp.pdf" class="">en Español</a></li>
<li class=""><a href="?q=site-page/toolkits/trails/index" class="">Toolkit: Maintain Public Lands</a> | <a href="/sites/default/files/ctools/trails_esp.pdf" class="">en Español</a></li>
<li class=""><a href="/sites/default/files/ctools/letsglean.pdf" class="">Toolkit: Let's Glean!</a> (USDA)</li>
</ul><p class=""><strong class="">Health</strong></p><p class="">Promoting healthy lifestyles in your community is key to preventing costly disease and improving our nation's health.</p>
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<li class=""><a href="?q=site-page/toolkits/comm-gardens/index" class="">Toolkit: Support Community Gardens</a> | <a href="/sites/default/files/ctools/comm-gardens_esp.pdf" class="">en Español</a></li>
<li class=""><a href="?q=site-page/toolkits/walk-seniors/index" class="">Toolkit: Starting a Walking Team</a> | <a href="/sites/default/files/ctools/walk-seniors_esp.pdf" class="">en Español</a></li>
<li class=""><a href="?q=site-page/toolkits/kids-health/index" class="">Toolkit: Promote Back to School Health</a> | <a href="/sites/default/files/ctools/kids-health_esp.pdf" class="">en Español</a></li>
</ul><p class=""><strong class="">Hunger</strong></p><p class="">Learn about the many ways you can help feed hungry families in your community.</p>
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<li class=""><a href="http://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/outreach/" target="_blank" class="">Toolkit: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program - Learn how to do outreach for the largest anti-hunger program in the U.S.</a> (USDA)</li>
<li class=""><a href="http://www.fns.usda.gov/cnd/Summer/" target="_blank" class="">Toolkit: Summer Food Service Program - Help feed kids when they are out of school</a> (USDA)</li>
<li class=""><a href="http://www.fns.usda.gov/CND/Breakfast/expansion/default.htm" target="_blank" class="">Toolkit: School Breakfast Program - Increase access to school breakfast to all students </a>(USDA)</li>
</ul><p class=""><strong class="">Veterans and Military Families</strong></p>
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<li class=""><a href="?q=ext_link&url=http://www.pointsoflight.org/programs/military-initiatives/community-blueprint/toolbox" class="">Toolkit: Community Blueprint Toolbox – A framework for producing positive, measurable outcomes for veterans, military members and their families</a> (Points of Light)</li>
<li class=""><a href="?q=ext_link&url=http://www.pointsoflight.org/programs/military-initiatives/community-blueprint/toolbox" class=""> Toolkit: Connecting Veterans to Community Services</a></li>
<!--<li><a href="?q=ext_link&url=http://createthegood.org/toolkit/help-military-families" target="_blank">Toolkit: How to Help Military Families (AARP)</a></li>--></ul><p class=""><strong class="">Create Your Own Project</strong></p><p class="">Work with your neighbors to identify local needs and find solutions that work.</p>
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<li class=""><a href="?q=site-page/toolkits/general/index" class="">Toolkit: Create Your Own Project</a></li>
</ul><p class=""><strong class="">Disclaimer of Endorsement</strong></p><p class=""><em class="">Toolkit references to any specific non-profit organization, commercial product, process, or service by trade name, trademark, manufacturer, or otherwise do not necessarily constitute or imply its endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by the U.S. Government or any agency thereof.</em></p></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><br class=""><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">
<div class=""><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">Darian Smith</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">President, National Federation of the Blind Community Service Division</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">Web: <a href="http://www.nfbcommunityservice.org" class="">www.nfbcommunityservice.org</a></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">Twitter: @NFBCSDivision,@goldengateace</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">Facebook: search for “National Federation of the Blind Community Service Division"</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; color: rgb(71, 135, 255); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline;" class="">E-mail: <a href="mailto:president@nfbcommunityservice.org" class="">president@nfbcommunityservice.org</a></span></div><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""> </p><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">(415)215-9809</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-size: 16px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""> </span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">The National Federation of the Blind knows that blindness is not the</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">characteristic that defines you or your future. Every day we raise the</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">expectations of blind people, because low expectations create obstacles</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">between blind people and our dreams. You can live the life you want;</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">blindness is not what holds you back.</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""> “We need your service, right now, at this moment - our moment - in history. I'm not going to tell you what your role should be; that's for you to discover. But I am going to ask you to play your part; ask you to stand up; ask you to put your foot firmly into the current of history” — Barack Obama </div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""> Help drive change for the blind .</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">Donate your car to the National Federation of the Blind today!</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; color: rgb(87, 86, 214); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(87, 86, 214);" class="">For more information, please visit: <a href="http://www.carshelpingtheblind.org/" class=""><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(71, 135, 255);" class="">www.carshelpingtheblind.org</span></a> or call 1-855-659-9314</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">“</div></div>
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