<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Congratulations Cindy, on an amazing fundraiser! We all, in particular our Washington Seminar Delegates, owe you many kudos, on this original and insightful concept! Congratulations, as well, to all of y’all, who promoted the Absent-Tea!<br><br><div dir="ltr">Kyle Ryan Kiper, M.A., CRC </div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Oct 22, 2022, at 16:09, Cindy Scott-Huisman via NFB-Arkansas <nfb-arkansas@nfbnet.org> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;">The big headline of this message is that the recent NFB of Arkansas fundraiser netted over $3,000!!! Our cost and time was minimal. </span></p><p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;">50-something people participated.</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;">A huge thanks goes out to each person who donated and helped spread the word. You know who you are!!</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;">In case you missed hearing about it, this was a non-event, we called an Absent-Tea. It ran from mid-September through October 15 (White Cane Awareness Day). We asked people to purchase tickets for a fancy high tea that was never going to take place. People loved it!!!</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;">This was a fun way to promote awareness and help raise funds.</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;">Cindy Scott-Huisman</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;">Central Arkansas Chapter president</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;">National Federation of the Blind</span></p><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br><div dir="ltr"><div style="direction: ltr;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Life is short and dictation is faster — please pardon any errors.</span></div><div><br></div></div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>NFB-Arkansas mailing list</span><br><span>NFB-Arkansas@nfbnet.org</span><br><span>http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nfb-arkansas_nfbnet.org</span><br><span>To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for NFB-Arkansas:</span><br><span>http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/nfb-arkansas_nfbnet.org/kylekipercrc%40gmail.com</span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>