[nfbwatlk] Interesting Ideas!

Wed Nov 12 18:10:57 UTC 2008

Sounds like a good idea. Is the disbursment of campaign funds a
national thing or just in FL? Sorry for the ignorance, but I think
I'll try this for the Seattle area ... I mean, why not? If you don't
ask, you don't get <g>.

Kris

On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 9:36 PM, Mike Freeman <k7uij at panix.com> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Evans" <drevans at bellsouth.net>
> To: "NFB Chapter Presidents discussion list"
> <chapter-presidents at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2006 2:09 PM
> Subject: Re: [Chapter-presidents] meeting location
>
>
> Dear All,
>
> I have been a NFB Chapter president , Vice-President and
> Treasurer  in my time as a member of the NFB.  I have also been a
> State Board member  as well.
> In my total of 18 years as a Chapter President, I have learned
> allot and I wish to share some of this.
>
> The things that seem to work best for defining a meeting place
> are that it should be as centrally located to your area's
> population and as accessible, by Public Transportation as
> possible.
> We found that we could find lots of places to meet that don't
> charge, but that access to a transportation source was the
> biggest factor in getting our members to attend and be active.
>  We even moved our meeting place a couple of times to make our
> meetings reachable by more people in our county.
>  It is easy to get your mind locked into a certain meeting place
> just because you have already found one, you have been meeting
> there and you think, "why chage."
>
> Over the years we looked at useing libraries, but we could not
> bring food in.  We always have a number of people who are
> diobetic or just want to be able to have something to eat and
> drink too.
> For this reason, we decided that meeting at a restaraunt , with a
> back room, separate from the Public and their noise, was the best
> choice for us.
>  We found such a place in a shopping mall that housed a food
> court and some restaraunts that included a Pickadilly's
>  cafeteria.
> We found the Pickadilly's to be great.  They had a back room we
> could use and let us come in early before they opened to the
> Public.  This let us hold our meeting and when it was over, our
> members could just go an get in line and get their food at a very
> reasonable price.  We were not charged for the use of the room as
> long as most of our members stayed and ate something.  They even
> gave us free coffee.
> This location also let our members go shopping in the mall after
> the meetings before they had to go home.
> It was safe and open early and late and had lots of things to see
> and do.
> Transprtation was established and the place of drop off was just
> outside the doors of the mall and the first door on the right,
> inside, was the pickadilly's.  Our chapter grew and we had 97
> people attend our first Holiday Party that year.  We averaged
> about 44 to 47 members each month at meetings but, the parties
> always draw them out of the woodwork.
>
>
> I would like to offer this suggestion to you all, right now,
> because of the just past National elections.  It is something
> that my chapter has benefited from in the past, on a small scale,
> but which I am going to take on in a big way this time around.
> All local, state and federal politicians, who just ran for
> office, win or lose, must Divest themselves of all of their
> liftover campaing  funds.  They must give them away.
> I will be drafting letters to go out to all of those politicians
> to interest them in giving some of this money to my NFB chapter.
> Some have done it before and I did not even ask them too then.
>
> I saved my sample ballot to have a list of all the people who ran
> for office, even the judges and dog catcher.  They are all going
> to get a letter from our chapter , on its letterhead, reminding
> them that we are a 501-(C)(3) non-profit organization and would
> be like to be considered as they decide how and to whom to give
> their leftover campaign funds too.
> We got $1,200 dollars from just one politician before.  Now we
> might get something from over 50.
> Think about it.  Just by sending a letter to someone at the right
> time can make all of the difference.
> Tell them about your chapter and what the NFB does.  Tell them
> that you would like to use some of the money for a scholarship
> for a blind student or to send a blind person to a national
> convention, to help a family with a blind child or a lonely
> senior to learn how to cope with blindness or to help you go out
> into the schools to talk to school children about how blind
> people do things and educate them.
>
> Think of the possibilities.
> I will share some more of my fund raising ideas in the future and
> you can join the NFB Fund Raising list and search it's archives
> for more ideas people have already posted about fund raising and
> how to do them.
> If you have questions, I can be reached off list at
> drevans at bellsouth.net   .
>
> David Evans, NFBF
> President, Palm Beach County Chapter Florida
>
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>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Sherry Ruth" <babyruth2 at alltel.net
>>To: "NFB Chapter Presidents discussion list"
> <chapter-presidents at nfbnet.org
>>Date sent: Sat, 8 Nov 2008 05:19:55 -0500
>>Subject: Re: [Chapter-presidents] meeting location
>
>>Try checking with your local library to see if they have a
> meeting room
>>which can be used by non-profit groups free of charge.  Also, we
> use the
>>community room at our local police station for free.
>
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