[Nfb-editors] Arizona's President's Monthly newsletter for December

[Robert Leslie Newman]

December 4, 2012 

 

Hello, fellow Federationists, 

 

 

We have lots of information to share as the year ends and the new year plans
are being made! 

 

I am attaching the MS Word file and text files of our current NFBA roster to
this message. 

 

 

 

.               Chapter Christmas parties 

 

.               West Valley change to a telephone conference meeting
December 12 

 

.               Financial assistance available to participate in the
February

Washington seminar 

 

.               NFBA January Caribbean cruise 

 

.               Scholarship information 

 

* Condolences for Mike Ruddy's mother 

 

* An article from Anil Lewis regarding Goodwill and fair wages 

 

* free talking prescription labels 

 

* an article by Gary Wunder, as published in the NFB publication for parents
and teachers - Future Reflections 

 

 

* An appeal from our national office to consider using a service called
"Good Search 

 

 

* From Sharonda Greenlaw, president of the Phoenix chapter The Phoenix
chapter Christmas party will be held at the Golden Corral on

7609 W. Thomas Rd on Saturday, December 8 from 4-8 PM.

 

There will be a gift exchange!  To participate, bring a wrapped gift with at

least a $10 value.  Mark it with m for male or f for female   If it's

unmarked, we assume it will fit anyone.  

 

All are welcome to share in the fun and fellowship!  If you have questions,
please contact Sharonda at (602)  281-5955

 

 

* From Mark Feliz, president of the East valley chapter - The East Valley
chapter of the National Federation of the Blind of Arizona invites you to
our annual Christmas potluck party. This is a great time to meet new family,
catch up with long time members, and taste great dishes.

The party will be held at the home of Ruth Swenson and Jim Sohl: 311 West
McNaire Street, Chandler, Arizona. The date is December 15th and the time is
from 2 pm. To whenever.

 

Call me if you wish to attend and if you are able to bring a dish. We also
have a ten dollar gift exchange for those who wish to participate.

 

I can be reached at: 480-560-0641.

 

Please spread the word to your friends who do not communicate via e-mail.

Please see the menu below.

 

menu

 

Turkey - Chapter

Ham -

Plates, silverware, napkins -  Chapter

Appetizers -

gravy -

Cranberries -

                Salads -

Vegetable tray -

                Potatoes - -

                Rolls & Butter - -

Entrees -

Desserts -

Soda -

 

Thanks and hope to see you there!

 

 

* From Marc Schmidt, president of the West Valley chapter - The West Valley
chapter will hold its next meeting via conference call on Wednesday, Dec.
12th, from 7:30 to about 9 pm. All board members are required to attend this
meeting, and all other chapter members are strongly encouraged to
participate as well. More details about this meeting will become available
soon.  

 

 

* From Donald Porterfield, NFBA legislative coordinator 

  The NFBA board of directors authorized up to $300.00 per person for

financial assistance for up to seven members to participate in our annual

Washington seminar.  If you are planning to participate in the Washington

seminar, and wish to request the financial assistance, please call or email

immediately to Bob Kresmer (888) 899-6322 or krezguy at cox.net 

 

The hotel reservations at the Holiday Inn in Washington need to be made

prior to Christmas! 

 

 

Since 1973 the National Federation of the Blind has converged on the Capital

City for the Washington Seminar.  The 2013  Seminar will take place in

Washington, DC from February 4 - 7, 2013During this time federationist meet

with their congressmen to talk about matters of concern to the blind.  The

Washington Seminar has a clear political impact on matters of concern to the

blind as well as an educational value for federationist and members of

congress.  Moreover, just as the annual National Convention has an emotional

and inspirational effect on the blind, the Washington Seminar has the same

effect in energizing our members for advocating for the blind.  I urge

anyone who can attend this event to do so.

 

 

.               So, you did not win the NFB of Arizona raffle for a cabin on
our

fundraiser Caribbean cruise.  It is not to late to fit in a last minute

reservation to participate in our NFB family and friends cruise from New

Orleans to Cozumel, Grand Cayman, and Jamaica.  The cruise leaves on January

5 for a seven day fun experience.  If you are interested in booking the

cruise, please email or call our travel agent, Anahit LaBarre at - 

 

 

www.labarretravel.com 

or call (720) 334-3652

alabarre at labarretravel.com 

 

  

*  The American Foundation for the Blind website lists Scholarships and

Grants for Students who are Blind or Visually Impaired and not from AFB.

http://www.afb.org/section.aspx?DocumentID=1845

 

If you are a student, you will be happily surprised at the variety of

scholarships available! 

 

 

* West Valley chapter member Michael Ruddy's mother died after an extended

illness on November 30.  You can send your condolences to Mike by calling or

by email at - 

 

Phone (602) 944-5076

Cell (602) 475-2462 Sb 1372 

mruddy at cox.net 

 

* From the National Association of Blind Students newsletter - Fall Slate

2012

http://www.nfb.org/braille-monitor

 

 

Goodwill Asserts: The Federation Refutes

By Anil Lewis 

>From the Editor: Anil Louis is the Director of Strategic Communications at

the National Federation of the Blind headquarters in Baltimore. Here he

shares with us why he is so passionate about getting equal pay for workers

with disabilities. 

The members of the National Federation of the Blind have been fighting for

years to repeal Section 14(c) of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), which

is a legal provision that permits employers to pay workers with disabilities

less than the federal minimum wage. Some workers with disabilities are

receiving subminimum wages as low as 3 cents per hour. With the introduction

of the Fair Wages for Workers with Disabilities Act, HR 3086, we are ever

closer to achieving our goal. The key to our success will be in our efforts

to educate the public about this exploitive provision. We have chosen to

highlight Goodwill International's use of the subminimum wage practice

because they are a household name that most people associate with workers

with disabilities, but most are unaware that they pay some of their workers

with disabilities as little as 22 cents per hour. The following description

from Goodwill International asserts their position on the merit of Section

14(c) of the FLSA. 

________________________________________

As anyone who has ever known the satisfaction of achieving a professional

goal knows, there is an intrinsic value to working that cannot be denied. We

innately crave purpose, a sense of accomplishment, self-respect fostered by

accomplishment, and acknowledgement for our contributions to life around us.

Yet today, for nearly 80 percent of Americans with disabilities,

opportunities to feel valued and fulfilled through meaningful employment do

not exist. The number of people with disabilities not accessing the

workforce would be greater if not for a provision of the Fair Labor

Standards Act, which allows employers to utilize a Special Minimum Wage

Certificate to hire those with the most severe disabilities. This provision

has led to the creation of jobs for hundreds of thousands of people with

multiple physical and mental disabilities who report to work each day,

flourish in friendships with their supervisors and co-workers, delight in

mastering new tasks and learning new skills, and take pride in their "jobs

well done." Seven thousand of these Americans work at Goodwills across the

country. 

________________________________________

So many people read this statement and they are convinced that Goodwill is

the answer to the plight of people with disabilities. We maintain that if

Goodwill's use of the Section 14(c) provision is the answer, someone is not

asking the right questions. Why doesn't Goodwill disclose that they pay many

of their workers with disabilities less than the federal minimum wage? When

did we as Americans get to a point where it is considered compassionate to

set such low expectations for our citizens? How many of us would consider it

compassionate for Goodwill, or any employer, to use this same language to

justify paying nondisabled workers' wages below the federal minimum wage?

How many times must our ignorance allow us to deny rights and privileges to

a population of people based on a characteristic? If employment at

subminimum wages under Section 14(c) of the Fair Labor Standards Act is the

answer to the unemployment problem of people with disabilities, then why is

it not being touted as the employment solution for the many nondisabled

American citizens unemployed today? Moreover, if it is truly a solution, why

after over seventy years of access to this unreasonable provision, is there

still such a disparity between the employment of the nondisabled as compared

to the disabled? Goodwill's assertions do not support the use of this

unfair, discriminatory, immoral provision. 

Goodwill asserts that the Section 14(c) provision is a tool used to assist

workers with disabilities obtain employment, and Subminimum wage work

affords individuals with significant disabilities an opportunity to gain

work experience that they otherwise may not have. However, the data shows

that subminimum wage employment teaches skills that must be unlearned in

order for a person to obtain competitive employment. Therefore, rather than

preparing a person for competitive integrated employment, subminimum wage

employment perpetuates on-going subminimum wage employment. 

Goodwill asserts that Section 14(c) permits their affiliates to obtain

Special Wage Certificates authorizing the payment of special minimum wages

to workers who have disabilities for the work being performed. The work

performed in these situations revolve around the work the employer needs

performed in order to operate their business, not the work that meets the

employee's unique skills, interests and abilities. If the employer needs

envelopes stuffed, the work is envelope stuffing. If the employer needs

widgets assembled, the work is widget assembly. They promote this work as

job training. If true training is to be provided, trainees should be

performing work that takes advantage of their unique skills and abilities

assisting them to acquire productive job skills and to secure competitive

integrated employment. 

Goodwill asserts that they are in full compliance with federal and state

rules. However, compliance with a discriminatory act is not compliance, it

is complacency. Many people were complacent in their compliance with the

laws of slavery, their compliance with the denial of a woman's right to

vote, and other discriminatory provisions founded in ignorance that have

denied equal rights to individuals based on a characteristic. We, like the

abolitionists and suffragettes, truly represent the population of

disenfranchised citizens with disabilities and we will not stop until we

gain true equality with the rights and responsibilities it entails. 

Goodwill asserts that every person working under a Special Wage Certificate

chooses to do so. There is no real choice when the options are to work at

subminimum wages or to not work at all. Others assert that workers with

disabilities choose to work at subminimum wages in order to maintain their

public benefits. This is a sad commentary on their belief in our capacity

and desire to be fully participating citizens. Provide the proper training

and supports and people with disabilities will demonstrate the capacity for

competitive employment and choose to work at the federal minimum wage or

higher. Eliminate access barriers and Create real opportunities for

competitive employment and people with disabilities will choose to be

beneficial participating members of society rather than beneficiaries. 

Goodwill asserts that the severity of their disability precludes these

workers from pursuing other employment options. This statement has been

proven to be false time and time again. There are many examples of

individuals with significant disabilities that the workshops felt they could

not employ that have gone on to secure competitive employment. However,

hundreds of thousands of other individuals have received similar

unemployable designations from entities lacking the expertise to provide

proper training and support. As long as it is legal and profitable, these

otherwise employable individuals with disabilities will continue to serve as

the cash cows for employers that do not believe in their capacity,

condemning them to a life-time of subminimum wage employment. 

Goodwill asserts that people with disabilities lack the capacity for

competitive employment. They are joined by other service providers that have

learned to profit on this perspective. We assert that any entity that makes

this assertion lacks the expertise to provide quality training and

employment services to people with disabilities. We are joined by other

organizations of people with disabilities that wish to shift to an enlighten

paradigm where all people with disabilities are recognized as competitive

productive employees. 

Goodwill asserts that hundreds of thousands of individuals will lose access

to paid work experience. It is true that there are over 300,000 people

documented as being paid under the Section 14(c) Special Wage Certificate.

However, it is either ridiculous or enlightening to state that the

elimination of the certificate will result in hundreds of thousands of

individuals losing access to paid work experience. People with disabilities

who are being paid pennies per hour do not have jobs. They cannot lose what

they do not have. Effort should be focused on finding them real jobs that

pay real wages, or focused on training them for such jobs. 

Goodwill states that the workers with disabilities are not regular employees

of Goodwill. This is a philosophical statement that is a true reflection of

their opinion of their employees with disabilities. They attempt to justify

it by stating the workers with disabilities are not held to a particular

productivity standard, when in fact, the workers with disabilities are the

only employees that are truly held to a productivity standard. Section 14(c)

requires time studies, productivity assessments, and related documentation

to justify the payment of commensurate wages. It is a flawed process that

places an undue burden on workers with disabilities. It would be interesting

to see how the nondisabled Goodwill employees would fair under the same

standards and what compensation they would receive based on their

productivity. For example, what if Goodwill executives and management were

paid a commensurate wage based on the number of employees they assist in

obtaining competitive intergraded employment. If we take into consideration

the "re-work" of all the individuals they are unable to assist. The managers

and executives would receive subminimum wages. 

Overall, Goodwill asserts that people with disabilities would be

unemployable if not for the Section 14(c) provision. This is simply false.

Many people with all types of disabilities, when provided the proper

training and supports, obtain and maintain competitive integrated employment

every day. If Goodwill feels these individuals are unable to be productive

employees, despite the "quality" employment services Goodwill provides, they

should not be in the business of providing employment services for this

population. Let those organizations who believe in the capacity of people

with disabilities speak for those with disabilities. Let those service

providers that have the talent and expertise to provide quality employment

opportunities for people with disabilities be responsible for providing

quality employment services. 

We refute Goodwill's assertions, and make our own assertion that the

financial benefit to the employer outweighs Goodwill's commitment to workers

with disabilities. Goodwill receives public and philanthropic dollars

because the public believes they do "good work" for people with

disabilities. However, these substantial proceeds are being used to support

a business model where executives are compensated at higher than industry

rates on the backs of workers with disabilities being paid pennies per hour.

In any other context, people raising their standard of life while taking

advantage of others would be considered exploitation. Why, in the case of

workers with disabilities, is this considered an "opportunity to feel valued

and fulfilled through meaningful employment?" If the revenue is generated on

behalf of people with disabilities, then people with disabilities should

benefit. Not through glorified daycare veiled in compassion, but through the

provision of real training and support services that lead to competitive

integrated employment. Let Goodwill refute that. 

 

http://www.nfb.org/fairwages

 

 

.               Recently passed legislation requires the availability of
accessible

prescriptions to print disabled users.  Envision America has produced a free

product that will speak aloud your prescription label.  

 

 

How it works: A participating pharmacy places a label containing a thin

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programmed with all the printed information.  By simply pressing a button

and placing the prescription over the reader, you'll hear a natural-sounding

voice speaking all the information printed on the label. 

 

Hear your prescription information!

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.               Warnings Contraindications

.               Pharmacy Information

.               Doctor Name

.               Prescription Number Date

.               And More!

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.               From the magazine "Future Reflections - Convention roundup" 

 

 

A presentation to parents of blind children - 

I've speculated a lot about why I'm one of the lucky 30 percent. They tell

us that 70 percent of blind people are unemployed. Seven out of ten don't

have jobs, and three out of ten do have jobs. A lot of the three out of ten

who do have jobs are said to be underemployed. Why is it that I have a job?

I don't think I'm underemployed. My job challenges me quite a lot. What part

of having a job is skill, what part is attitude, and what part of it is just

plain good luck? What part of my success is what I did, and what part is

what was given to me in terms of native intelligence, motivation, and even

appearance? 

I think a lot of it comes from expectations. In terms of expectations, my

parents were unequivocal about some things. One of them was "You will not be

lazy. You will do what work you can do. You don't have to do the work that

we do, you don't have to do work the way we do it, but you will figure it

out. You have a brain, you have a functioning body, and that means that

you're going to work. You're going to grow up to be a responsible man. We

don't know how you'll do it, but you're going to do it." They told me,

"Money is valuable, precisely because it is in short supply. If you want

something, make money and save up for what you want. And just so you know a

little about the world of work, we're going to give you some work while

you're here at home."

My first assignment was to go out in the yard and pick up trash. My

grandmother was there when my dad gave me that assignment, and she laughed.

She said, "How the heck is he going to go out and find paper in the yard?" 

My dad said, "I don't care if he finds the paper in the yard or not. He can

carry the trash bag. His brothers can find the trash and put it in there,

and he's big enough, he can carry a good lot of it." So my first job was

cleaning up the yard.

After a while my father said, "They tell me that you're having a little

trouble with cleaning up the yard because of finding the paper, so I'll give

you something that may be more of a fit with your skills. You can clean the

pigpen." (We lived on a farm.)

 

Cleaning the pigpen is no great job, whether you're blind or sighted. My

father figured that the advantage of cleaning the pigpen was that it was a

limited, well-defined area, and I could check my work by using my nose.

My father then decided I did so well cleaning the pigpen that I could water

the horse. I thought that was a great thing! Then he got the idea that I

could water the bull. I tell you, watering a bull is a lot different from

watering horses! You walk up to the bull carrying a twenty-gallon thermos.

You may know that water weighs 8.2 pounds per gallon, and when you put

twenty gallons in there--well, I was staggering around, trying to get the

water thermos up over the fence so I could dump it in the trough. The bull,

he was thirsty, so he came snorting toward me, and eighteen of those gallons

ended up on my side of the fence! [Laughter]

I've had lots of jobs in my life, some of them pretty good and some of them

not so good. One of my first jobs was cleaning bricks. My father bought an

old school building and tore it down. He wanted to get some of the money

back, so he told me that I had to clean the bricks. That meant whacking on

each brick with a little knifelike thing. If you whacked with the right

amount of strength, you would knock off the stuff that had attached that

brick to the building. If you hit it too many times, you would break the

brick, so you had to hit it just right. If you broke the brick, something

that could be sold for twenty cents was then worth nothing and had to be

hauled away.

I used to put up hay. That was a great job! You had to run along the side of

the truck, find the bale without tripping over it, pick up the bale, and

throw it up onto the truck. That sounds like an easy thing, but if you throw

the bale too close to the front of the truck, you hit the hay that's already

up there, and it bounces off. If you throw it once the truck has gone past,

you have to pick it up and throw it again, and that's not a good thing.

The first job my dad didn't provide for me was in a sheltered workshop. I

had two jobs there. I had a job putting bolts on washers, and I had a job

putting pens together. In one way I thought they were great jobs, because I

was at home and I had no living expenses. Any money I made I could spend on

ham radio equipment. But that work also taught me that a manufacturing job

is one where, if you want to preserve your sanity, you figure out a good

daydream. You get that daydream to take you through the morning. Then you

eat lunch, and you figure out whether that daydream will take you through

the afternoon or whether you've got to come up with another one. I realized

there's no such thing as bad work, but if I could get better work I was

going to get it.

I decided to get a college degree. I got a degree in electronics technology,

thanks to our state and federal programs of rehabilitation. After I got out

of college I was rewarded for that college training. I went directly into

journalism, which means that I put advertising inserts into newspapers. You

know, the fliers that Walmart and Kmart slide into your newspaper--that's

what I did for a living for a while. The hardest part about that job was

that they couldn't care less if you showed up or not. Nothing happened if

you didn't come in. They had the attitude, "You probably won't come next

time, but we'll pay you anyway."

After that I got a job selling integrated circuits at a retail sales place.

Then I had a job for a guy who said, "We're going to turn this business into

a fantastic mail-order business. You write me a catalogue."

I wrote him the catalogue. I gave him the catalogue and I said, "When are we

going to send it out?"

He said, "There's no way we can send this out!"

I said, "The work isn't good?"

"The work is fine!" he said. "You did exactly what I told you to do! But if

we send this out, we'll be overwhelmed with thousands of orders. We're not

ready."

I went off and did a phone interview with a guy who wanted me to sell

insurance. He was so up on me! He said, "I very seldom get people who

interview so well. I think you're going to be great at this job. Come over

and we'll shake hands on it and sign the papers."

I said, "What buses run near where you are?"

He said, "Oh no --if I were you, I'd just drive." [Laughter]

I said, "I don't drive."

He said, "Well, why not?"

I said, "Is driving required for the job?"

He said, "No, but why not?"

I said, "Because they don't let blind people drive."

He said, "I'll get back to you after I talk to my supervisor." It turned out

that there was no job.

That made me decide that I needed a lot more training so I could be a lot

better than other people at whatever job I applied for. I went to a computer

training school for about ten months to supplement my degree in electronics

technology, and I got an internship. That internship turned into a job.

How did that happen? The real question the guy had was not, "Can this guy

program computers?" He knew I had trained to do that. He wanted to know if

this guy he was going to have as an intern could get to and from the

bathroom independently. If I could do that, he was probably prepared to give

me a job. If I needed nanny care, he probably wasn't prepared to hire me. 

That guy signed me up for my first programming job at five dollars and

eighty-three cents an hour. I was contracted the day before Halloween in

1978 at $12,134 a year. I put the contract on the refrigerator; I was really

proud of it. When I left the university thirty years later, I was earning

$62,000 a year, which was a great thing.

I want to conclude by saying that sometimes you can't do what you want, so

you start out by doing what you can. The big job won't be where you start.

It's what you get when you prove yourself again and again to the person

who's going to pay you. Blind or sighted, work is walking uphill every day.

It's not one heroic journey, like John Wayne takes in the movies. He shoots

the bad guy, and forever his reputation is made.

The expectations you have will determine whether your child lives on SSI or

grows up to pay taxes. Is he the child with an unfortunate handicap or, as

Michael J. Fox describes himself in his first book after getting

Parkinson's, will he be the Lucky Man? The way your child comes to think

about himself or herself will largely be determined by what you encourage,

by the people you bring into your child's life, and by the expectations you

have. Being nice can be fatal. You can be nice sometimes, but you've got to

be firm, too.

 

 

* As we turn our collective attention toward the upcoming holiday season, we

want to share a free, easy, and convenient way that we can all contribute to

our great organization. The NFB is eligible to receive donations through

various Web sites that support philanthropic giving. Among these are the

GoodSearch.com, GoodShop.com, and GoodDining.com Web sites. By designating

the NFB as the charity you wish to support, you can generate funds simply by

searching the Web, shopping online, and dining at their partner restaurants.

 

 

Each Web search generates about a penny for us. While this seems small, if

everyone switches to using "Good Searches" instead of "Google" searches,

this could generate an extra $20 per year, per person. Many of us take

advantage of online shopping during the holiday season. By accessing your

favorite store's Web site via the GoodShop.com Web site, a percentage of

your total purchase will be donated to the NFB. Everyone goes out to eat, at

least occasionally, and by dining at GoodDining.com partner restaurants, a

portion of your purchase will be donated to the NFB as well. 

 

Below you will find a detailed set of instructions that will help you sign

up for the GoodSearch, GoodShop, and GoodDining Web sites. Once you have

signed up, please share this information with your friends, family, and

colleagues. This is a great way to support our movement, and all it costs is

a few minutes of your time!  If you have any questions or concerns, please

feel free to contact me at your convenience. 

 

While we're busy thinking up new things to do to raise money, let's make

sure to take advantage of the Web searching, shopping, and dining we already

do! 

 

Kind Regards, 

 

 

Mika Baugh

 

Outreach, Jernigan Institute 

 

GoodSearch.com General Information and Instructions

 

The GoodSearch.com Web site provides a general "How It Works" video. This is

a good place to start: 

 

http://www.goodsearch.com/getstarted.aspx?viewType=RV 

 

Currently, the site offers three ways to donate to the NFB:

 

1.       GoodSearch.com

 

2.       GoodShop.com

 

3.       GoodDining.com 

 

Each works a little differently, but using any of these methods will

generate funds. But, before this can happen, one must sign up with

Goodsearch.com. There is no need to sign up with all three sites

individually, but the process to use each one varies. 

 

 

Step 1: Signing up and choosing a charity 

 

.         Go to www.goodsearch.com and click on the "register" button. 

 

.         You will then arrive at a form where you can sign up using your

social network (Facebook, Google+, Twitter, etc. OR you can fill out a form

and provide your information). 

 

o   ***NOTE: You must agree to receive e-mails from GoodSearch.com in order

for your transactions to generate donations. This box should already be

checked, just be sure that you don't un-check it. 

 

.         Once you enter this information, an e-mail with further directions

will be sent to the address you provided. Simply click on the link provided

in the e-mail, choose the NFB as your charity, and your account will be

activated. 

 

Step 2: GoodSearch.com 

 

.         Once your account is activated, you can generate about a penny for

the NFB every time you search the Internet using GoodSearch.com. The

GoodSearch.com search engine is powered by Yahoo. 

 

.         When you want to make a search, just go to GoodSearch.com and

enter your query in the search box. You can make GoodSearch.com your

homepage, or download the "good app" to make this even easier and faster. 

 

o   ***NOTE: The "good app" is NOT accessible with screen access technology.

You may choose to use this tool, but it is not endorsed by the NFB as it

does not meet the standards for nonvisual access. 

 

Step 3: GoodShop.com 

 

.         Once your account is activated, you can generate funds for the NFB

by shopping online. 

 

.         Go to GoodShop.com (it is connected to GoodSearch.com so you don't

need to sign up for it individually), choose a store at which to shop, click

on that store, and you will be taken to the store's Web page. 

 

.         From the store Web page, choose your items and checkout like you

normally would. You don't need to do anything different other than access

the site from GoodShop.com. 

 

o   ***NOTE: Most items purchased DO qualify for donations to the NFB, but

items such as gift cards DO NOT. 

 

Step 4: GoodDining.com 

 

.         Once your account is activated, you can earn donations to the NFB

by simply eating at one of thousands of partner restaurants. 

 

.         Go to GoodDining.com and click the "Get Started" button.

 

.         Fill out the form and be sure that the NFB is the designated

charity.

 

o   ***NOTE: You must check the box that states that you are providing a

valid e-mail address and that you agree to receive e-mails from the site.

 

.         Continue through steps 2 and 3 of the registration process. Step 3

asks you to register your credit card with GoodDining.com. Once your card is

registered, a donation will automatically be made anytime you use that card

at a participating restaurant. There is no need to inform the restaurant or

print a coupon or flyer prior to your dining visit. You must use the

registered card in order to earn donations for the NFB. 

 

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