[NFBMT] FW: [State-Affiliate-Leadership-List] Help your members get to their first NFB National Convention!

Mon Mar 13 19:40:15 UTC 2023

If you’ve not attended one of our National Conventions, please consider applying for a Jerniganan Scholarship, details below.  This year, we gather in Houston Texas July 1-6, 2023.  For more convention details, please check out this link:

https://nfb.org/get-involved/national-convention 

Jim Marks

President

National Federation of the Blind of Montana

president at nfbofmt.org

(406) 438-1421

www.nfbofmt.org

You can live the life you want; blindness is not what holds you back.

From: State-Affiliate-Leadership-List <state-affiliate-leadership-list-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Linda Melendez via State-Affiliate-Leadership-List
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Subject: [State-Affiliate-Leadership-List] Help your members get to their first NFB National Convention!

>From the 2023 Kenneth Jernigan Fund Committee  

Think back to your very first NFB National Convention. The Trepidation of wondering how you’d find your way to the exhibit hall and meeting rooms; being surrounded by fellow Federationists you had not yet met; making your way through the exhibit hall and checking out the new products and gadgets. And then returning home, with renewed confidence in not only yourself but in the Federation as a positive agent for change. 

The Kenneth Jernigan Scholarship Fund can help make this experience possible for the members of your chapter or division who have not yet participated in a national convention. The Scholarship Committee is asking that you discuss the possibility of applying for a first-timer scholarship to help share the cost of travelling to and participating in the 2023 Convention July 1-6 in Houston, TX.  

At this month’s meeting, we encourage you to share your own convention stories and use the following questions to for discussions about applying for a Kenneth Jernigan Scholarship (application deadline is April 15. 

1.	What makes convention so empowering and uplifting?  
2.	Why is it so important to learn about blindness? 
3.	Why do you encourage others, especially first timers, to attend?  
4.	How can first timers keep up with all the great information at convention?  
5.	How do you afford convention? 
6.	How will first time attendees get around the hotel?  

For your convenience, we have included the link to the Kenneth Jernigan Scholarship Fund webpage below; 

 <https://nfb.org/get-involved/national-convention/kenneth-jernigan-convention-scholarship> https://nfb.org/get-involved/national-convention/kenneth-jernigan-convention-scholarship 

We invite chapters to have this discussion to increase national convention participation amongst all members. 

Warmly, 

2023 Kenneth Jernigan Fund Committee 

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Warmly,

Linda Melendez, President
National Federation of the Blind of New Jersey
908-590-1747
 <mailto:president at nfbnj.org> president at nfbnj.org
 <http://www.nfbnj.org/> www.nfbnj.org
Facebook:  <https://m.facebook.com/NFB-NJ-353099574776238> https://m.facebook.com/NFB-NJ-353099574776238

To schedule a 30-minute meeting about the National Federation of the Blind of New Jersey please click on the link below

 <https://calendly.com/nfbnj/30min> https://calendly.com/nfbnj/30min

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