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Our click to give campaign will close on July 26 so we need your help
right away. <br>
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You will recall that our Imagination Fund Committee kicked off a Click to
Give campaign at our national convention. Click to Give allows anyone to
make a donation to the National Federation of the Blind easily. This is
an opportunity for us to identify those individuals who are not members
of the organization but want to support the good work that we do. We need
your help identifying individuals in your extended network of family,
friends, colleagues, and service providers. Their gift will assist a
newly blinded person with independent travel through our free white cane
program, help a child to learn to read through our Braille Reading Pals
program, assist blind veterans to regain their independence, and so much
more. <br>
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How You Can Help<br>
Please take the time to share the names and email addresses of potential
supporters by visiting
<a href="https://nfb.org/give2017">https://nfb.org/give2017</a>. We will
send an email inviting all of these individuals to share in the great
things we do every day to help blind people live the lives we want. <br>
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Filling out the form will take only a few minutes. It asks for your name
and email, as well as the names and emails of those you believe might
give. We can do the rest. <br>
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OF course, if you also reach out to your contacts to explain the
campaign, tell your personal story, and ask them to give, it increases
the likelihood of success. We have developed talking points to help.<br>
Talking Points:<br>
1. Tell your story.<br>
2. Talk about programs that are easy to understand.<br>
3. We give the gift of mobility through our free White Cane program.
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4. We gift children with literacy through our free Braille Books.<br>
5. We teach kids to read through BELL.<br>
6. Literacy correlates with employment.<br>
7. Most of all we help blind people live the lives we want. (Tell how we
do that. We push each other to achieve. We instill confidence.)<br>
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So, after you visit
<a href="http://nfb.org/give2017">http://nfb.org/give2017</a> and fill
out our online form with your contacts, you could also send an email or
text saying something like:<br>
Dear Joe,<br>
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I am dropping a note to ask for your help. I am a proud member of the
National Federation of the Blind. The NFB gave me the confidence to go to
school, take on a career, raise my children, and live the life I want. It
is other members who taught me to put bells on John’s shoes when he was
small and who push me to master technology in my new job. We are reaching
out with a Click to Give campaign. We will email you at the start of our
campaign, and I hope that you will respond with a gift. If you do, you
contribute to the National Federation of the Blind. <br>
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The National Federation of the Blind helps newly blinded people regain
mobility through a free white cane program, teaches Braille to children,
distributes free Braille books to kids, assists blind veterans to regain
their independence, and so much more. This is a cause that has truly
impacted my life and helps blind people live the lives we want every day.
Please make a difference through your donation.<br>
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Sincerely, <br>
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Please reach out to our Imagination Committee Chair Everette Bacon
personally with questions at (801) 631-8108 or at
<a href="mailto:baconev@yahoo.com">baconev@yahoo.com</a>. <br>
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Let’s build the Federation one gift at a time. Thank you all for
contributing your time and talent to make our dreams come true. <br>
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Patti S. Chang Esq.<br>
Director of Outreach<br>
200 East Wells Street, Baltimore, MD 21230<br>
(410) 659-9314, extension 2422 | pchang@nfb.org<br>
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The National Federation of the Blind is a community of members and
friends who believe in the hopes and dreams of the nation’s blind. Every
day we work together to help blind people live the lives they want. <br>
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