[Mi-abs] MABS Conference call for 12/03/2017

[Osman Koroma]

The conference call starts at 4 PM

"Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened" (Matthew 7:7-8).
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> On Dec 2, 2017, at 18:52, Bobbi Pompey <bobbipompey at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> What time is the call?
> 
> Bobbi A. L. Pompey
> (336) 988-6375
> bobbipompey at gmail.com
> 
> "Not everything faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced" James Baldwin 
> 
>> On Dec 2, 2017, at 5:03 PM, Osman Koroma <osman36d at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hello everyone,
>> I hope all of you are having a wonderful weekend.  Just a reminder our
>> first Conference call for the 2017-2018 year will be tomorrow.  The
>> Agenda is below as well as the call in info.  Also attach is a program
>> we are working on.  I hope to see all of you there and I’m sorry for
>> the late email.  It won’t happen again.
>> Osman Koroma
>> MABS President
>> 
>> 
>> Conference call in line: 605-475-4333
>> Axis code: 902855#
>> 
>> 
>> 12/03/2017, Confrence call
>> Agenda:
>> Row call
>> Advocacy: Rachel
>> ideas are One I remember Taylor
>> saying something about how she wanted videos or something like that
>> for the social media. So the idea that I came up with is doing a video
>> on advocacy
>> at the BSBP training Center. They focus a lot on advocacy and I think
>> that would be a good place to start. Then the other thing that I was
>> thinking of
>> is more of a fundraising thing but Western has a Goal Ball team and
>> has all of the equipment. So I thought that we could do a goal ball
>> Tournament and
>> have each team pay a little bit of money and we could play goal ball.
>> These are some of the ideas that I had.
>> Fundraising: Dakota and Hayley
>> Fundraising Idea 1:
>> One idea that we came up is for a possible fundraiser during the
>> Michigan Ski for Light event taking place from Friday January 12 to
>> Sunday January 14 2018.  One possible idea for the fundraiser is that
>> during the auction, there could be a 50-50 raffle where a portion of
>> the money goes to us as the NFB, another portion could go towards
>> MSFL, and another portion could go to the winner.  I have contacted
>> Kathy, the president of MSFL about the idea.
>> 
>> Fundraising Idea 2:
>> A second idea is that we could have an event at Camp T, and during the
>> event, we could have some sort of game night that could cost about $5
>> per person.  This is where everyone attending would bring a
>> blind-accessible game, which could be one of many types.  There could
>> be some sort of prize for the winner if we do something like a
>> tournament for certain games.  This would be a low-cost event and
>> might work out pretty well since we seem to play a lot of games at
>> Camp T events anyway.
>> 
>> Fundraising Idea 3:
>> Even though we might not get a lot of money from this idea too
>> quickly, it might help us quite a bit.  There are a lot of food banks
>> and what not around large areas, such as Flint, Kalamazoo, and other
>> large cities.  We could actually go and volunteer to help out these
>> organizations; a lot of them could probably use our help during the
>> holiday season and what not.  Even though we wouldn’t necessarily be
>> making money right away, this gets us out there as an organization.
>> It will also show the various organizations that we as blind
>> individuals can do things to help out the world.  After we get
>> ourselves out there and help the organizations, they might choose to
>> donate and help us as the NFB as well.
>> Hayley:
>> Selling to bring them to grandmas cookies. It’s a two pack of
>> chocolate chip cookies. We sell them for a dollar a piece. Each box
>> holds 60 packages. And
>> we make a profit of $.54 each package so what do you think?
>> Report from the state board liaison: Jeff
>> Website report: Taylor
>> NABS report: Elizabeth
>> Secretary report: Elizabeth
>> President report: Osman
>> 2018 Washington Seminar
>> Opening an bank account
>> American Transportation in the 21st Century (Fred and Osman)
>> Ideas on events for 2018 )Osman(
>> New business, old business
>> Marry Christmas
>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and
>> it will be opened to you.  For everyone who asks receives,and he who
>> seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened” (Matthew 7:7-8).
>> 
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