<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Darian, I believe that community service is defined as doing something truly beneficial to others than yourself. I do agree with your definition. But what we do for someone in the blind community beyond helping friends and family we know well can count. For example, helping the blind in other countries I think would constitute community service as well – global community!<br><br><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 47px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Ericka Short</span><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 47px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">1750 Fordem Ave. #508</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 47px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Madison. WI. 53704</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 47px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">608-665-3170</div><div><br><div> from my iPhone 6s</div></div></div><div><br>On Apr 24, 2017, at 1:08 PM, Darian Smith, President, National Federation of the Blind Community Service Division via Community-Service <<a href="mailto:community-service@nfbnet.org">community-service@nfbnet.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>Hi all,</span><br><span> Just figured I would put this out there to get some debate going.</span><br><span> In a general sense, the definition of community service can basically be boiled down to doing something for the benefit of a group of persons.</span><br><span> In the NFB, we might consider community service as anything we can do for the benefit of blind people, both within our membership and outside of it.</span><br><span> In the Community Service Division, we tend to look at community service as a thing that a blind person might do that would benefit the larger community, not just other blind folks.</span><br><span> We believe this distinction is important to make because often society believes that the only way that a blind person can do good is if they are doing that good within the bounds of blindness and the blind community.</span><br><span> Do you agree with this assertion? Disagree? why or why not?</span><br><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>Community-Service mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:Community-Service@nfbnet.org">Community-Service@nfbnet.org</a></span><br><span><a href="http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/community-service_nfbnet.org">http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/community-service_nfbnet.org</a></span><br><span>To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for Community-Service:</span><br><span><a href="http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/community-service_nfbnet.org/dotwriter1%40gmail.com">http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/community-service_nfbnet.org/dotwriter1%40gmail.com</a></span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>