[NFB-NM] FW: [Nfbnet-members-list] Click to Give Campaign Closes Soon - How You Can Help

Sat Jul 22 03:56:30 UTC 2017

From: NFBNet-Members-List [mailto:nfbnet-members-list-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Chang, Patti via NFBNet-Members-List
Sent: Friday, July 21, 2017 8:57 PM
To: nfbnet-members-list at nfbnet.org
Subject: [Nfbnet-members-list] Click to Give Campaign Closes Soon - How You
Can Help

Our click to give campaign will close on July 26 so we need your help right
away. 

You will recall that our Imagination Fund Committee kicked off a Click to
Give campaign at our national convention. Click to Give allows anyone to
make a donation to the National Federation of the Blind easily. This is an
opportunity for us to identify those individuals who are not members of the
organization but want to support the good work that we do. We need your help
identifying individuals in your extended network of family, friends,
colleagues, and service providers. Their gift will assist a newly blinded
person with independent travel through our free white cane program, help a
child to learn to read through our Braille Reading Pals program, assist
blind veterans to regain their independence, and so much more. 

How You Can Help
Please take the time to share the names and email addresses of potential
supporters by visiting https://nfb.org/give2017. We will send an email
inviting all of these individuals to share in the great things we do every
day to help blind people live the lives we want. 

Filling out the form will take only a few minutes. It asks for your name and
email, as well as the names and emails of those you believe might give. We
can do the rest. 

OF course, if you also reach out to your contacts to explain the campaign,
tell your personal story, and ask them to give, it increases the likelihood
of success. We have developed talking points to help.
Talking Points:
1. Tell your story.
2. Talk about programs that are easy to understand.
3. We give the gift of mobility through our free White Cane program. 
4. We gift children with literacy through our free Braille Books.
5. We teach kids to read through BELL.
6. Literacy correlates with employment.
7. Most of all we help blind people live the lives we want. (Tell how we do
that. We push each other to achieve. We instill confidence.)

So, after you visit http://nfb.org/give2017 and fill out our online form
with your contacts, you could also send an email or text saying something
like:
Dear Joe,

I am dropping a note to ask for your help. I am a proud member of the
National Federation of the Blind. The NFB gave me the confidence to go to
school, take on a career, raise my children, and live the life I want. It is
other members who taught me to put bells on John's shoes when he was small
and who push me to master technology in my new job. We are reaching out with
a Click to Give campaign. We will email you at the start of our campaign,
and I hope that you will respond with a gift. If you do, you contribute to
the National Federation of the Blind. 

The National Federation of the Blind helps newly blinded people regain
mobility through a free white cane program, teaches Braille to children,
distributes free Braille books to kids, assists blind veterans to regain
their independence, and so much more. This is a cause that has truly
impacted my life and helps blind people live the lives we want every day.
Please make a difference through your donation.

Sincerely, 

Please reach out to our Imagination Committee Chair Everette Bacon
personally with questions at (801) 631-8108 or at baconev at yahoo.com. 

Let's build the Federation one gift at a time. Thank you all for
contributing your time and talent to make our dreams come true. 

Patti S. Chang Esq.
Director of Outreach
200 East Wells Street, Baltimore, MD 21230
(410) 659-9314, extension 2422 | pchang at nfb.org

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The National Federation of the Blind is a community of members and friends
who believe in the hopes and dreams of the nation's blind. Every day we work
together to help blind people live the lives they want. 

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