[NFBCS] not Enough!

[Ty Littlefield]

Peter,

With all respect, I'm unsure why you're still here if BITS is so great. 
Surely with all their offerings they have enough to keep you all (given 
the plural "our") busy? Not every organization needs to be like, or 
function like ACB organizations. I would love to see more action within 
NFBCS as a whole in terms of resolving barriers, but there are people 
within NFB doing that work.


My suggestion to you is to be the change you want to see. Run for a 
position in the organization, offer trainings, volunteer to do something 
in the NFBCS community. It's easy to complain, and much harder to do 
something constructive, but without that action, the change you want to 
see is less likely to happen.



On 1/29/2025 8:29 PM, Peter via NFBCS wrote:
>
> Good evening,
>
> If you asked me holding an annual meeting and a seminar now and then 
> is not enough to justify continued membership in this organization. 
> The Blindness Information and Technology Specialists, (BITS) the ACB’s 
> equivalent                 can run circles around the NFBCS any day 
> unless something changes. For starters unlike the NFBCS BITS has it’s 
> own <%0dWebsite:%20https:/bits-acb.org%0d>
>
> Website: https://bits-acb.org<%0dWebsite:%20https:/bits-acb.org%0d>
>
> This is just for starters. They have numerous technology-related 
> discussion groups, produce a number of technology-related podcasts, 
> and conduct online classes teaching such subjects like learning 
> Microsoft 365 a course that was very well-done. They’re preparing to 
> offer a 6-month course on HTML, Markdown, Website design and 
> management and the use of Word Press. They plan to offer a Python 
> course later this year And they do all that for $10.00 annual 
> membership dues. The rest comes from donations and funds raised via 
> the BITS Store. Where’s the NFBCS Store? They do all of that with 
> fewer resources than what the NFB and the NFBCS have at their disposal. .
>
> If the NFBCS wishes to grow it needs to increase its offerings to 
> members and conduct activities making it worth one’s participation. 
> It’s our hope that the NFBCS will elect leadership that will take 
> serious actions to increase this organization’s footprint in the blind 
> community and to make it an organization all can be proud to be a 
> member of. All the best.
>
> Peter Donahue
>
>
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