[Oabs] Scholarships! A request from the committee

[Deborah Kendrick]

Kaiti, 
Thank you for continued effort and please, please keep it up.

Actually, we have three applicants now, but none have completed all materials yet.
Keep plugging, please!

Deborah


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From: Oabs [mailto:oabs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Darian Smith via Oabs
Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2015 3:49 AM
To: Kaiti Shelton
Cc: Darian Smith; Ohio Association of blind students
Subject: Re: [Oabs] Scholarships! A request from the committee

additionally, is this the type of thing that might go in the Updates that the communication  committee of NABS? typically  
> On May 5, 2015, at 10:54 PM, Kaiti Shelton <kaiti.shelton at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> We can try twitter-Emily, if you get a minute and can tweet about it 
> with a link to the web site where the form can be downloaded that 
> would be great.  Our base there is still small, but it's worth a shot.
> If you just point them to www.nfbohio.org that should be good, it's 
> pretty straightforward from there.
> 
> I'm  probably going to send one more reminder in a few days to the 
> NABS list and others, but first I am going to scout a few people out 
> on other lists.  Perhaps a personal approach might work.
> 
> On 5/6/15, Darian Smith <dsmithnfb at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I don’t know if there are any folks of interest on the community 
>> service division list and FB Page, but feel free to  hit those up.
>> Twitter even?
>>  let me know how I can be of assistance! best of luck and keep up the 
>> great work!
>> 
>>> On May 5, 2015, at 9:42 PM, Kaiti Shelton via Oabs <oabs at nfbnet.org>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi, all,
>>> 
>>> I have two requests that I hope Deborah won't mind me making as a 
>>> member of the scholarship committee.  The first and most important 
>>> one is to please, please, please help spread the word about our 
>>> scholarship program to other students you may know who could benefit.
>>> The scholarship program is one of the most powerful recruitment 
>>> tools the NFB has in its arsenal, and by extension OABS as the 
>>> target audience is around the age our division caters to.  The 
>>> second request is to please fill out any applications and send them 
>>> to Deborah if you are planning on applying.  As I am a member of the 
>>> committee I am qualified to provide interviews, but we are less than 
>>> 2 weeks away from the deadline and have, believe it or not, 1 
>>> application that I am aware of.  I checked with Deborah fairly 
>>> recently and that was still the case, so unless she or other 
>>> committee members have interviewed in the past week or so that is all we've got.
>>> 
>>> I've been a social media fiend on NABS, the Parents of Blind 
>>> Children of Ohio Facebook Group, and any other place I can think of 
>>> sending out reminders and scouting out potential applicants.  Though 
>>> that is my job as a member of the committee, a nudge from a familiar 
>>> face can be very helpful for students you may know about and I 
>>> don't.  If you'd rather send names and/or contact information for 
>>> potential applicants my way that is fine, too, but let's do what we 
>>> can to bring new members into the Federation and show them what we're about.
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Kaiti Shelton
>>> University of Dayton 2016.
>>> Music Therapy, Psychology, Philosophy President, Ohio Association of 
>>> Blind Students Sigma Alpha Iota-Delta Sigma
>>> 
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>> 
> 
> 
> --
> Kaiti Shelton
> University of Dayton 2016.
> Music Therapy, Psychology, Philosophy
> President, Ohio Association of Blind Students Sigma Alpha Iota-Delta 
> Sigma


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