[nagdu] Go Fund Me

[Raven Tolliver]

Debby,
Poor or not, most people have phones, and most phones can access the
internet. There are homeless people with phones because the government
will give you a phone if you can't afford one.
Not saying I think people need to start raising funds to get a guide
dog, but if other service dog handlers do it, it is possible for us,
too.

Yes, the schools certainly do a fantastic job of fund-raising.
-- 
Raven
Founder of 1AM Editing & Research
www.1am-editing.com

You are valuable because of your potential, not because of what you
have or what you do.

Naturally-reared guide dogs
https://groups.google.com/d/forum/nrguidedogs

On 7/16/15, Debby Phillips via nagdu <nagdu at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> It would be a means that would keep poorer folks out.  Even if
> people went to sources like Go Fund Me or whatever it is, poorer
> people tend to not have good Internet, or not have computers.
> And back in the day when I and many of my friends were getting
> our first dogs, we were all poor, under-employed, and our
> families certainly couldn't have helped much.  Most of my friends
> were like me, with either no job, or low-paying jobs.  The
> results would have been pitiful.  Whether we always like the way
> the schools go about fund raising, they have the know-how to do
> it.  Actually Seeing Eye did not do fund raising until the late
> 1980's.  Their endowment was large enough that they did not have
> to, and in fact gave numerous grants for eye research and genetic
> research for dogs.  Now the endowment is not as large as it once
> was, and they are in the position of the rest of the schools and
> has  to raise funds.  It's a tougher world out there for
> organizations that are non-profits and that get no government
> funding.  (I'm just as glad the schools don't get government
> funding, because there would be so many rules and regulations
> attached that probably would make no sense and would be stupid.
> Well, my tired body is heading for bed.  Going to take Nova out
> to park and then bed.    Debby and Nova
>
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