[Ohio-talk] gavel Award Question 2

[Barb Fohl]

You're right, Barbara.  We're looking for civic activities related to 
blindness.  Of course, we'd give a chapter some points if they sent us 
information about activities that were not related to blindness, but they 
wouldn't get as high a score.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Barbara Pierce" <bpierce at oberlin.net>
To: "'NFB of Ohio Announcement and Discussion List'" <ohio-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, January 04, 2010 3:50 PM
Subject: [Ohio-talk] gavel Award Question 2


>I will jump into this discussion because I helped to construct these
> questions originally. Of course I don't know how the awards committee 
> scored
> the Cincinnati answer, but in the beginning our intention was not to count
> community activities that in themselves have nothing to do with blindness.
> If we are going to count the general volunteer activities of the chapter
> members, we should all know this and write answers accordingly. Originally
> we told people that chapter members who volunteered in a food pantry for 
> the
> poor, for example, were doing good work but were not directly advancing 
> the
> NFB's work. We went on to say that if chapter members volunteered in the
> election campaign of a public servant who had been helpful in backing our
> legislation, that could count. You can see that all this is very complex. 
> I
> don't know that it matters how we score volunteer work, but everyone 
> should
> know what the general criteria are.
>
>
>
> Barbara
>
>
>
> Barbara Pierce
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