[Diabetes-talk] What can we do?

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this just seems to figure as far as diabetes and anything related to the 
disease that doesn't bring in a lot of money to support the disease. The 
Voice is a great magazine the reason it is being eliminated is because it is 
helpful and no one in the medical field is making a huge profit from it.
Debbie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Elizabeth Lunt " <boo.lunt at verizon.net>
To: "'Diabetes Talk for the Blind'" <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, February 09, 2009 4:49 PM
Subject: Re: [Diabetes-talk] What can we do?


> Hello All,
> I feel I must finally write in here. The cost of the Voice of the Diabetic
> has not "skyrocketed" and I'm not sure where this information is coming
> from. Even with the much-improved design and full color, the costs were
> controlled, and money was coming in from ads and sponsorships. However, it
> simply costs a lot to print and ship so many copies -- our circulation for
> Voice of the Diabetic is over 300 thousand copies per quarter. It was very
> popular among readers and diabetes educators and demand was high. 
> Gathering
> the information, selling advertisements and getting education grants, and
> writing and editing the publication accounted for staff members' time, as
> well as other diabetes advocacy activities such as pushing for accessible
> diabetes technology. Dr. Maurer has made a decision to cut the entire
> Diabetes Initiatives project, which included publishing Voice of the
> Diabetic. He has said that some diabetes activities will be folded into 
> the
> duties of existing staff at the NFB, but the rest of us have been let go. 
> We
> did the best we could to present up-to-date, helpful and inspiring
> information about both diabetes and coping with diabetes with limited or 
> no
> vision. There will not be another issue of the magazine, because Dr. 
> Maurer
> made his decision after the Winter issue went out, and he is folding the
> project now, before another would have gone out in the spring.
> Thank you for your support over the years. I have enjoyed working on this
> publication. I hope you will get the full story, or try to, before
> continuing this conversation with NFB leadership.
> All the best,
> Elizabeth Lunt
> Editor, Voice of the Diabetic
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: diabetes-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org
> [mailto:diabetes-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Blindhands at aol.com
> Sent: Monday, February 09, 2009 1:17 PM
> To: diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org
> Subject: [Diabetes-talk] What can we do?
>
> Diabetes is the number 1 cause of blindness in the USA.  It ranks up 
> there
> throughout the world.  What can we do to stop or have them at least
> consider
> another  way of continuing the Voice of the Diabetic  publication.
>
> NFB is always asking us to contact our Senators and House of 
> Representative
>
> members, how about calling or emailing our President of NFB  to "Voice" 
> our
> opinion and thoughts on this?
>
> The blind depend on word of mouth to learn about things, that is why we 
> are
>
> encouraged to talk about NFB to everyone blind and sighted.
>
> I understand that the cost of the publication has sky rocketed, but do we
> need color photos and the new look of the Voice?  I am sure those are some
> of
> the reasons that caused the price  to soar.
>
> I am disappointed with this decision.  I do know that there has been
> concerns in the past years about the  money going  out for this 
> publication
> and the
> NFB covering the  cost.          the circulation of  this publication is
> over
> three hundred thousand .
>
> Mike, do you know if there will be a notice put into the Voice and  will
> there be a final Voice sent out or is it just over like that ?
>
> Joyce
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