[Mn-abs] National Federation of the Blind Announces Dr. Jacob Bolotin Awards

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CONTACT:

Chris Danielsen

Director of Public Relations

National Federation of the Blind

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National Federation of the Blind Announces Dr. Jacob Bolotin
Awards





National Federation of the Blind to Award $50,000 in 2010



<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = 
"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />Baltimore,
Maryland 
(October 7, 2009): The National Federation of the Blind
today 
announced that applications are now being accepted for the
2010 Dr. 
Jacob Bolotin Award Program.  Each year the National
Federation of 
the Blind presents cash awards to individuals and
organizations that 
have made outstanding contributions toward achieving the
full 
integration of the blind into society on a basis of
equality.



Dr. Jacob Bolotin was a blind physician who lived and
practiced in 
Chicago in the early twentieth century.  He was widely known
and 
respected in Chicago and throughout the Midwest during his
career, 
which spanned the period from 1912 until his untimely death
at the 
age of thirty-six in 1924.  He was particularly recognized
for his 
expertise on diseases of the heart and lungs.  Bolotin used
his many 
public speaking engagements to advocate for the employment
of the 
blind and their full integration into society.



Dr. Marc Maurer, President of the National Federation of the
Blind, 
said: "Dr. Jacob Bolotin was a pioneer who overcame low
expectations 
and discrimination to become a renowned member of the
medical 
profession without the benefit of the support services and
civil 
rights protections available to blind people today.  He was
also a 
fierce advocate for greater opportunity for the blind in his
time, 
and doubtless would have been a leader in the organized
blind 
movement had he lived to see it come into being.  The Jacob
Bolotin 
Award Program celebrates his pioneering spirit by
recognizing and 
supporting outstanding programs, technologies, and
individual efforts 
that promote independence and opportunity for blind
Americans."



Recipients of the 2010 Dr. Jacob Bolotin Awards will be
determined by 
the Dr. Jacob Bolotin Award Committee of the National
Federation of 
the Blind.  Online applications are due by April 15, 
2010.  Individuals or organizations are encouraged to apply
on behalf 
of themselves or others.  The award recipients will be
announced at 
the 2010 National Federation of the Blind Convention in
Dallas.  A 
total of $50,000 will be distributed to the award
recipients.



The Jacob Bolotin Award Program is funded through the
generosity of 
Dr. Bolotin's nephew and niece, Alfred and Rosalind
Pearlman.   In 
addition to establishing the Alfred and Rosalind Pearlman
Trust to 
endow the awards, the late Mrs. Pearlman also wrote The
Blind Doctor: 
The Jacob Bolotin Story.   The book has been published by
Blue Point 
Books and can be ordered directly from the publisher at 
www.bluepointbooks.com. Proceeds from book sales will also
benefit 
the award program.  For more information or to fill out the
online 
application, please visit <http://www.nfb.org/>www.nfb.org.





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About the National Federation of the Blind


With more than 50,000 members, the National Federation of
the Blind 
is the largest and most influential membership organization
of blind 
people in the United States.  The NFB improves blind
people's lives 
through advocacy, education, research, technology, and
programs 
encouraging independence and self-confidence.  It is the
leading 
force in the blindness field today and the voice of the
nation's 
blind.  In January 2004 the NFB opened the National
Federation of the 
Blind Jernigan Institute, the first research and training
center in 
the United States for the blind led by the blind.  Please
visit our 
Web site: <http://www.nfb.org/>www.nfb.org.

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