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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear Friends:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Below is the latest issue of the Imagineering Our Future Newsletter. If you have not yet subscribed, there is a link to sign up at the bottom of the email message.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Daniel<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Daniel Garcia, President, Kansas City Chapter<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">National Federation of the Blind of Missouri<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">dangarcia3@hotmail.com<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(816) 621-0902<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">www.nfb.org<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Live the life you want.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Mark Riccobono, President of the National Federation of the Blind <IOF@nfb.org>
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, December 15, 2021 6:03 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Daniel Garcia <dangarcia3@hotmail.com><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Thanking Our Holiday Heroes<o:p></o:p></p>
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<h1>IMAGINEERING OUR FUTURE<o:p></o:p></h1>
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<p><span style="font-size:13.5pt">We are making a better future for my blind daughters and all blind children who will grow up knowing they can live the lives they want. I cannot thank our supporters enough for helping to raise expectations. <a href="https://nfb.org/civicrm/mailing/url?u=24041&qid=6538721"><span style="color:#002F6D">More
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<h2>Why Be a Holiday Hero?<o:p></o:p></h2>
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<p><span style="font-size:13.5pt">“I give in support of my lifelong friends at the NFB who continue to change the world.” Our contributors share why they give. “What you do is so unique. I want to help.” <a href="https://nfb.org/civicrm/mailing/url?u=24042&qid=6538721"><span style="color:#002F6D">Read
more about our supporters</span></a>.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:13.5pt">Scholarship applications are open! Department of Justice asks disabled people to share experience of wait-time fees, Netflix responds to blind community request, and we are one step closer to ending subminimum wages. <a href="https://nfb.org/civicrm/mailing/url?u=24043&qid=6538721"><span style="color:#002F6D">Read
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<h2>Take Action This Month<o:p></o:p></h2>
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<p><span style="font-size:13.5pt">Help us meet our end of year goal by <a href="https://nfb.org/civicrm/mailing/url?u=24044&qid=6538721"><span style="color:#002F6D">contributing to the NFB</span></a>, access the Self-Advocacy in Employment Toolkit, and explore
the<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span></em><a href="https://nfb.org/civicrm/mailing/url?u=24045&qid=6538721"><span style="color:#002F6D">December issue of the
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<a href="https://nfb.org/civicrm/mailing/url?u=24046&qid=6538721"><span style="color:#002F6D">Learn how you can get involved this month</span></a>.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:13.5pt">National scholarship application period is open, Washington Seminar and the Jacobus tenBroek Law Symposium are coming soon, and National Convention is happening in New Orleans.
<a href="https://nfb.org/civicrm/mailing/url?u=24047&qid=6538721"><span style="color:#002F6D">Don’t miss these important dates and events</span></a>.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><span style="color:black"><a href="https://nfb.org/civicrm/mailing/url?u=24041&qid=6538721"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:#002F6D">Read the complete issue online</span></a>.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:black">The National Federation of the Blind knows that blindness is not the characteristic that defines blind people or their future. Every day we raise the expectations of and for blind people, because low expectations
create obstacles between blind people and our dreams. We can live the lives we want; blindness is not what holds us back. Please join us in our work by becoming a member, attending an event, sharing this newsletter, or supporting our programs.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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