[NFBNJ] Click to Give Please Consider To Make A Difference imagination Fund

[joe ruffalo]

Greetings to all!
Please review, share with others and consider the following information to assist with the Imagination Fund.
My dream is for all that receive this message to participate in the Imagination fund.
We all know that the Federation does meaningful, educational, motivational and inspirational outreach to assist through our national organization, affiliates, chapters, divisions, committees, programs and projects by raising expectations to live the life we want.
The Imagination Fund provides an opportunity to share our successes and the need for funds with family, friends, neighbors, co-workers, etc.
Once again, thank you for your continued support to change what it means to be blind.
Let’s Go And Build The Federation!

Joe Ruffalo, President
National Federation of the Blind of New Jersey 
973 743 0075
nfbnj1 at verizon.net
www.nfbnj.org

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Our Imagination Fund Committee is pleased to announce a Click to Give campaign that we will kickoff 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. 
 

How You Can Help

Please take the time to share the names and email addresses of potential supporters by visiting https://nfb.org/give2017. When the campaign starts, 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. 

 

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. 

 

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.


Talking Points:

1. Tell your story.

2. Talk about programs that are easy to understand.

3. We give the gift of mobility through our free White Cane program. 

4. We gift children with literacy through our free Braille Books.

5. We teach kids to read through BELL.

6. Literacy correlates with employment.

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.)

 

So, after you visit http://nfb.org/give2017 and fill out our online form with your contacts, you could also send an email or text saying something like:


Dear XXX,

 

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, which starts on July 10.  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. 

 

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.

 

Sincerely, 

 

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SpecialNote:

 

Please reach out to our Imagination Committee Chair Everette Bacon personally with questions at (801) 631-8108 or at baconev at yahoo.com. 

 

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. 

 

 
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