<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><br><br><div dir="ltr">Thank you<div><br></div><div>Jorge Hernandez </div></div><div dir="ltr"><br>Begin forwarded message:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><b>From:</b> Denise Valkema via NFBF-Leaders <nfbf-leaders@nfbnet.org><br><b>Date:</b> March 11, 2020 at 7:38:55 PM EDT<br><b>To:</b> NFBF <nfbf-l@nfbnet.org>, NFBF <nfbf-leaders@nfbnet.org><br><b>Cc:</b> Denise Valkema <valkemadenise@aol.com><br><b>Subject:</b> <b>[NFBF-Leaders] Kenneth Jernigan Convention Scholarship | National Federation of the Blind</b><br><b>Reply-To:</b> NFB of Florida List for Leaders <nfbf-leaders@nfbnet.org><br><br></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div dir="ltr">First timers scholarship to national convention. Please share! <br>https://www.nfb.org/get-involved/national-convention/kenneth-jernigan-convention-scholarship</div><div class="region region-above-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><div id="block-nfb-pagetitle" class="block block-core block-page-title-block" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><h1 class="page-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; line-height: 1.1; font-size: 52px; font-weight: 500; color: inherit;"><span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br></span></h1><h1 class="page-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; line-height: 1.1; font-size: 52px; font-weight: 500; color: inherit;"><span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Kenneth Jernigan Convention Scholarship</span></h1></div></div><div class="region region-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><div id="block-nfb-mainpagecontent" class="block block-system block-system-main-block" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><article data-history-node-id="3744" role="article" about="/get-involved/national-convention/kenneth-jernigan-convention-scholarship" class="node node--type-page node--view-mode-full clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="node__content clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; line-height: 1.8; padding: 0px;">The Kenneth Jernigan Convention Scholarship provides funding support to National Federation of the Blind members who want to attend a <a href="https://www.nfb.org/get-involved/national-convention" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 90, 163); text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in-out, opacity 0.2s ease-in-out, background-color 0.2s ease-in-out, border-color 0.2s ease-in-out;">national convention</a> for the first time.</p><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 30px 0px 10px; line-height: 1.1; font-weight: 500; color: inherit; font-size: 36px;">Eligibility</h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; line-height: 1.8; padding: 0px;">Active NFB members, blind or sighted, who have not yet attended an NFB National Convention because of lack of funding are eligible to apply.</p><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 30px 0px 10px; line-height: 1.1; font-weight: 500; color: inherit; font-size: 36px;">How to Apply</h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; line-height: 1.8; padding: 0px;">Starting January 1, 2020, apply online using the <a href="https://www.nfb.org/form/kenneth-jernigan-convention-scho" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 90, 163); text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in-out, opacity 0.2s ease-in-out, background-color 0.2s ease-in-out, border-color 0.2s ease-in-out;">Kenneth Jernigan Convention Scholarship online application form</a>. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; line-height: 1.8; padding: 0px;">The application will ask for the following information:</p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Contact Information: </strong>Include your full name and both your primary phone where you can be contacted by your state president and your mobile phone you might use at convention, if available. Please include your mailing address and, if you have one, your email address. If you don’t have an email address, please consider if there is a friend or chapter member who might be able to assist with email correspondence.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">State Affiliate/Chapter Information:</strong> Include your state affiliate, your state president, chapter, and chapter president, if you attend a chapter.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Mentor Information:</strong> Include your personal convention mentor and provide that person’s phone number.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Funding Request:</strong> Include your specific request and explain how much money you need from this fund to make this trip possible for you. We suggest you consult with other members to make a rough budget for yourself.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Essay Questions: </strong>How do you currently participate in the Federation? Why do you want to attend a national convention? What would you receive? What can you share or give? Provide any special circumstances you hope the committee will take into consideration.</li></ul><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; line-height: 1.8; padding: 0px;">If you cannot apply online, you can still apply by writing a letter to your state affiliate president answering the above questions. This letter should be emailed to your state affiliate president. Once you have decided you will apply, please contact your state president in person or by phone to request his or her help in obtaining funding. Be sure to tell the state affiliate president when to expect that your application will be submitted and mention the deadline.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; line-height: 1.8; padding: 0px;">Once your online application has been submitted, your application will be provided to your state president via email. It is still your responsibility to contact your affiliate president. He or she must email a president’s recommendation directly to the Kenneth Jernigan Convention Scholarship Fund Committee at <a href="mailto:kjscholarships@nfb.org" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 90, 163); text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in-out, opacity 0.2s ease-in-out, background-color 0.2s ease-in-out, border-color 0.2s ease-in-out;">kjscholarships@nfb.org</a>. <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Your president must email the recommendation no later than the deadline of April 15, 2020. </strong>If you have applied outside of the online form, the state affiliate president must email both the recommendation and the application letter.</p><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 30px 0px 10px; line-height: 1.1; font-weight: 500; color: inherit; font-size: 36px;">Notification of Award</h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; line-height: 1.8; padding: 0px;">If you are chosen to receive this scholarship, you will receive a letter with convention details that should answer most of your questions. The committee makes every effort to notify winners by May 15, but you must do several things before that to be prepared to attend if you are chosen:</p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Make your own hotel reservation.</strong> If something prevents you from attending, you can cancel the reservation. (Yes, you may arrange for roommates of your own to reduce the cost.)</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Register online for the entire convention,</strong> including the banquet, by May 31.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Find someone in your chapter or affiliate who has been to many conventions </strong>and can answer your questions as a friend and mentor.</li></ul><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; line-height: 1.8; padding: 0px;">If you do not hear from the committee by May 15, then you did not win a scholarship this year.</p><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 30px 0px 10px; line-height: 1.1; font-weight: 500; color: inherit; font-size: 36px;">Receiving the Award</h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; line-height: 1.8; padding: 0px;">At the convention you will be given a debit card or credit card loaded with the amount of your award. The times and locations to pick up your card will be listed in the letter we send you. The committee is not able to provide funds before the convention, so work with your chapter and state affiliate to assist you by obtaining an agreement to advance funds if you win a scholarship, and to pay your treasury back after you receive your debit or credit card.</p><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 30px 0px 10px; line-height: 1.1; font-weight: 500; color: inherit; font-size: 36px;">Award Details</h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; line-height: 1.8; padding: 0px;">The three biggest ticket items you need to cover when attending an NFB National Convention are the round-trip transportation, the hotel room for a week, and the food (which tends to be higher priced than at home). We attempt to award additional funds to families, but, whether a family or an individual is granted a scholarship, this fund can only help; it won’t pay all the costs. Most years the grants were in the range of $400 to $500 per individual. In 2019, ninety grants were offered.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; line-height: 1.8; padding: 0px;">We recommend that you find an NFB member as your personal convention mentor, someone who has been to many national conventions and is able to share money-saving tips with you and tips on navigating the extensive agenda in the big hotel. Your mentor will help you get the most out of the amazing experience that is convention week.</p><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 30px 0px 10px; line-height: 1.1; font-weight: 500; color: inherit; font-size: 36px;">More Information</h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; line-height: 1.8; padding: 0px;">For additional information, please contact the chairman of the Kenneth Jernigan Convention Scholarship Fund Committee, Tracy Soforenko, at <a href="mailto:kjscholarships@nfb.org" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 90, 163); text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in-out, opacity 0.2s ease-in-out, background-color 0.2s ease-in-out, border-color 0.2s ease-in-out;">kjscholarships@nfb.org</a> or <a href="tel:410-659-9314" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 90, 163); text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in-out, opacity 0.2s ease-in-out, background-color 0.2s ease-in-out, border-color 0.2s ease-in-out;">410-659-9314</a>, extension 2415</p></div></div></article></div></div><br><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Denise Valkema, President<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">National Federation of the Blind of Florida<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;">President@nfbflorida.org</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;"><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">(305)972-8529</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;">WWW.NFBFLORIDA.ORG</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Follow us @nfbflorida<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Live the life you want.</span></p></div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>NFBF-Leaders mailing list</span><br><span>NFBF-Leaders@nfbnet.org</span><br><span>http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nfbf-leaders_nfbnet.org</span><br><span>To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for NFBF-Leaders:</span><br><span>http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/nfbf-leaders_nfbnet.org/jeh1065%40comcast.net</span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>