[Nfbmo] What would you do?

Tue Oct 25 11:46:59 UTC 2011

Brian,

I helped set up a Trivia Night a year ago. Although none of the categories 
were visual in nature, we payed someone to handle setting up the questions 
and we made money on the number of folks at a table, 8, and we had 
approximately 14 tables, we made a large portion of our money on 50-50 
raffels, silent auction items and raffel ticket sales for items around the 
room. I would be more than willing to chat with your chapter on how we made 
over $2,300 dollars.

Fred Olver
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Debbie Wunder" <debbiewunder at centurytel.net>
To: "NFB of Missouri Mailing List" <nfbmo at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, October 24, 2011 8:08 PM
Subject: Re: [Nfbmo] What would you do?

> Hello, it is often a common practice to have some video  at a trivia 
> night. Sometimes the videos are visual, and sometimes they are audio. If 
> you are a team made up of sighted and blind people you should still be 
> able to give impute to the question/answer.
>
> At our NFB Columbia  trivia on Saturday, we did not use one audio/visual. 
> All questions were read aloud, and shown on the wall. We offered any blind 
> team a scribe to fill in their forms if they were unable to.
>
> A great time was had by al.
>
> If any one would like us to talk with your chapter about how we did our 
> trivia night, we would be more than happy too!
>
> Debbie
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> From: "Bryan Schulz" <b.schulz at sbcglobal.net>
> To: "NFB of Missouri Mailing List" <nfbmo at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Monday, October 24, 2011 1:34 PM
> Subject: Re: [Nfbmo] What would you do?
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>
>> hi,
>>
>> the st. louis chapter is considering a trivia event next year and may 
>> attend one of yours to see what they are like.
>>
>> Bryan Schulz
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Susan Ford" <johnsusanford at earthlink.net>
>> To: "NFB of Missouri Mailing List" <nfbmo at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Monday, October 24, 2011 1:33 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Nfbmo] What would you do?
>>
>>
>>>
>>> I don't know, Fred.  It's too bad you can't find a bunch of blind people 
>>> who would go together to next year's Trivia night.  With enough of you, 
>>> they would be embarrassed and feel compelled to alter things.  I didn't 
>>> know they used video materials at trivia nights anyway.  I thought they 
>>> were supposed to be intellectual pursuits.  You might send an item to 
>>> Dave Andrews to put on all the NFB listservs.  Maybe someone else would 
>>> come up with a good plan.  Depending on who sponsors it, programs 
>>> getting federal money could be compelled to do things differently, but a 
>>> church doesn't receive federal funds.
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: "fred olver" <goodfolks at charter.net>
>>> To: "NFB of Missouri Mailing List" <nfbmo at nfbnet.org>
>>> Sent: Monday, October 24, 2011 8:44 AM
>>> Subject: [Nfbmo] What would you do?
>>>
>>>
>>>>A year ago, I attended a Trivia Night put on by a food pantry in the St. 
>>>>Louis area. This pantry is supported by my church along with several 
>>>>others. After the night's program was over, half of the categories being 
>>>>visual in nature so that a blind person could not participate in that 
>>>>portion of the program I wrote an item for my churches news-letter and 
>>>>sent it on to the director of the organization. In this item I pointed 
>>>>out that it was not fair or necessary to include only video-type 
>>>>questions and asked that they do, in the future consider having 
>>>>categories which were non-video in the future. I received assurances 
>>>>from the director of the organization that indeed they would do this.
>>>>
>>>> Last Friday, I attended their Trivia Nighht again. True, only two 
>>>> categories of questions were video in nature, however these two 
>>>> categories included roughly 1/3 of the questions. Yesterday at a 
>>>> meeting of a church committee I suggested that they with-hold two weeks 
>>>> worth of donations and that these donations go to another organization 
>>>> as a protest, the rest of the committee said no to this idea, sighting 
>>>> the possibility that a family might have to do without this food, I 
>>>> personally doubt it, and figure they're just to comfortable in their 
>>>> place and don't wish to because it doesn't affect them, so what would 
>>>> you do if you were in my place? This really upsets me, especially since 
>>>> I had spoken to this organization a year ago and they had more or less 
>>>> agreed that this was not a good thing to have happen.
>>>>
>>>> Fred Olver
>>>> http://www.dealingwithvisionloss.com  For some of us it's a way of life 
>>>> and for some of us it just makes life easier. Fred Olver
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