[Diabetes-talk] What can we do?

Tue Feb 10 22:33:49 UTC 2009

I found out about DAN through the voice at my dialysis center, and that is 
how I found out about the NFB, if they want more members, you have to have 
it out there.

Cheryl Echevarria

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eileen Scrivani" <etscrivani at verizon.net>
To: "Diabetes Talk for the Blind" <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 1:10 PM
Subject: Re: [Diabetes-talk] What can we do?

> Debbie:
>
> This raises a few more questions.  I understand that people who are blind
> are on limited incomes and may not be able to afford to pay for a
> subscription to the Voice, but what about Doctor's, hospital's & other
> medical professionals?  Certainly, they can afford to pay a subscription
> fee.  Out of the circulation numbers, how many go to people who are blind
> and may not be able to cover the cost of a subscription & how many go to
> medical professionals?  Do doctor's give away services for free?  I think
> not.
>
> And, why increase the cost of the publication with color pictures?  Isn't
> the mag primarily for those who are blind?  Perhaps the focus has changed
> somewhere along the line from presenting good information to the blind/vi
> community to trying to attract sighted readers?
>
> Eileen
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "catdancing" <catdancing at sbcglobal.net>
> To: "Diabetes Talk for the Blind" <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 12:11 PM
> Subject: Re: [Diabetes-talk] What can we do?
>
>
> > 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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