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<h1 style="margin-top:16px"><strong><span style="font-size:26pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Matching Gift Opportunity with HumanWare</span></span></span></strong></h1>
<p style="margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><span style="line-height:107%">To kick off Blind Equality Achievement Month, we’re excited to announce a $50,000 matching gift from our partners at HumanWare. From October through December, your contributions will be matched to magnify our efforts to increase Braille literacy, access to information, and so much more. We demonstrated how our partnerships bring big ideas to the hands of the blind community in our <a href="https://u32452178.ct.sendgrid.net/ls/click?upn=mTCu8dGvOkl-2BXqaCK8sZ2XZsIV-2FIHwCJ1wu82RzQMT8t64jmb9bmcUogA-2Bzxye9vxrwsSCTh7YwGxfh-2FEZjA7zul38A4kV9oXHIc2-2FqvGX8-3DIpgh_-2BNZsK3gLd7yaP8f8wgapqMt2W19BlVJbFLUw0UNPxHIVbNEzdOjZw2ZBmiGrfR1nEMdVZYf-2F5sgi2YPfO81sdbAxntk5vUIHrpTCACYh1hUJKWLe30pd76WOUw-2BB8gkqNBBFMPTow0KeIKfjxk8Gw9AVUi4eHFDWz0i5eo5CpYQ-2BZttWO9-2BeQquJfQNBuYUgVQ-2Ff5MwLwZnpXZzVx8-2FVOg-3D-3D" rel='nofollow'><strong>announcement
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<h2 style="margin-top:3px"><strong><span style="font-size:22pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Three Ways to Double Your Dollars:</span></span></span></strong></h2>
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<h2 style="margin-top:3px"><strong><span style="font-size:22pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">From Imagination to Reality: Our Partnership with HumanWare</span></span></span></strong></h2>
<p style="margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><span style="line-height:107%">An industry leader, HumanWare has developed more than fifty highly intuitive and intelligent solutions to change the lives of blind people. HumanWare is dedicated to the promotion of literacy, inclusion, and accessibility at home, in the classroom, and in the workplace. </span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><span style="line-height:107%">The Federation’s long-time partnership with HumanWare has advanced equal access, the next generation of tactile graphics, and information sharing for the blind community. </span></span></span></span></span></p>
<h2 style="margin-top:3px"><strong><span style="font-size:22pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">About Blind Equality Achievement Month</span></span></span></strong></h2>
<p style="margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><span style="line-height:107%">Remember history. Advance equality. Celebrate accomplishments. Formerly known as Meet the Blind Month, the National Federation of the Blind celebrates the organized blind movement during October. Throughout the month, our members conduct a variety of outreach activities in their local communities. Many of these activities center on White Cane Awareness Day which is October 15. Learn more about Federation activities during <a href="https://u32452178.ct.sendgrid.net/ls/click?upn=mTCu8dGvOkl-2BXqaCK8sZ2XZsIV-2FIHwCJ1wu82RzQMT8t64jmb9bmcUogA-2Bzxye9v66iNSYXcqzxwF2zr46oAt8mDWDyS-2Bdeow62K21KdpM4-3DMb8Y_-2BNZsK3gLd7yaP8f8wgapqMt2W19BlVJbFLUw0UNPxHIVbNEzdOjZw2ZBmiGrfR1nFbaOLM5ruBxAsbap13ug27IeL3HQ2lNSjPuaIBCfQuXacm6kqqV9EuJbqIKnmu9juSs4b3joGL-2BeqWyxJfdLNaSH0zn-2BKqHez-2FWjNE-2FuI4n-2B3cHq34VMJPzFuj8J7fANWf7SugYosB2hlWrFwcJkOQ-3D-3D" rel='nofollow'>Blind Equality Achievement
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