[Ohio-talk] Vehicle donation Program

[Kaiti Shelton]

Sorry... I take back my initial email.  Upon further digging on Charity
Navigators, which is a site that ranks charities and is designed to provide
information to donors, I found this.  

http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=7722

I can't believe I was fooled; but I guess they play off of the gullibleness
of people so they're web site would intentionally be misleading.  They also
refused to disclose information to the Better Business Bureau, which sounds
fishy.  The BBB web site says that disclosure is voluntary, but the point of
disclosing information is to show an honest depiction of the company
standards to donors.  So, basically they're saying that this company is
hiding something for a reason, and although they're allowed to decide to do
that why would they if they had nothing to hide?  At least New York is
investigating their car, van, and boat donations.  

Kaiti Shelton
University of Dayton---2016
Music Therapy Major, Psychology Minor, Clarinet
Secretary, Ohio Association of Blind Students (OABS)-NFB
Member of Alpha Phi Omega-Alpha Gamma Xi Chapter



-----Original Message-----
From: Ohio-talk [mailto:ohio-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Marianne
Denning
Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 1:51 PM
To: NFB of Ohio Announcement and Discussion List
Subject: Re: [Ohio-talk] Vehicle donation Program

Has anyone heard the advertisement for vehicle donations for "Heritage for
the Blind??  I have recently heard them in the Cincinnati area and I am
worried it is a scam.  I went to the website and could not find anything
telling me what this organization does.  I know this is off topic but I am
always concerned about things like this.

On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 12:01 PM, Cheryl Fields
<cherylelaine1957 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi, this is a really great idea and should be profitable. Is it 
> possible for someone to develop a email flyer for us print and forward 
> to our friends and family.
>
> Blessings,
> Cheryl Fields
>
> On 3/19/13, Eric Duffy <eduffy at deltav.org> wrote:
> > I am posting in part a message from Joanne Wilson in our national
office.
> > Please do what you can to help.
> >
> > The National Federation of the Blind has launched a vehicle donation 
> > program. The vehicle donation program allows us to accept car 
> > donations anywhere in the United States. Our national office and our 
> > affiliates
> have
> > been turning car donations away because we have not had an effective 
> > program for managing these donations and turning them into cash for 
> > the organization. We have now solved this problem and we need your 
> > help to
> take
> > advantage of this opportunity.
> >
> > After extensive research, the Federation has made an agreement with 
> > Vehicles for Charity to process our car donations. Besides cars, we 
> > also accept vans, RVs, motorcycles, dirt bikes, boats, trucks, and 
> > tractors.  However, it
> is
> > up to us to capture the donors by promoting the fact that we can 
> > accept vehicle donations and finding creative ways to get the word out.
> > Please Spread the word that the NFB is now accepting vehicle donations.
> > Encourage members to send all referrals to the page on our website 
> > www.nfb.org/vehicledonations or to our toll free vehicle donation 
> > number 855-659-9314.
> >
> > It is important that we all do what we can to help spread the word 
> > about this new program.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Eric
> >
> >
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Marianne Denning, TVI, MA
Teacher of students who are blind or visually impaired
(513) 607-6053
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