[nfb-talk] Need Advice: Chapter Meeting Locations andProgramming

[kaye zimpher]

How are your snacks served? Does each member go to the snack table and get 
their own food or does the chapter solicit a volunteer from the crowd to 
serve. Is that person usually low-vision or are totally blind members up 
there serving food. I have a reason for asking these questions, but I'd like 
to see responses first.
Thank you
Kaye
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "seville allen" <ceoallen at verizon.net>
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Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 9:13 PM
Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] Need Advice: Chapter Meeting Locations 
andProgramming


> Our chapter meets at a church where some of us are members.  That church 
> is
> a block from a train station and on two bus lines.  It is also near 
> several
> delis and a restaurant or three.
>
> We meet on Thursday evenings from 7:30 pm to about 9:30 pm.  We pay the
> church $50 per meeting night (the room would rent for $150 to a nonmember)
> We do sometimes have speakers from the community and we also have what we
> call a philosophy time to discuss an nfb blindness issue and why we do 
> what
> we do.
> We do have a break and have snacks during that break--cookies, brownies,
> fruit soda, water, whatever the volunteer chapter member brought for that
> meeting.
> Before meetings, some members get together for dinner.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Tina Hansen
> Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 5:18 PM
> To: nfb-talk at nfbnet.org
> Subject: [nfb-talk] Need Advice: Chapter Meeting Locations and Programming
>
> First off, I'm pleased to be back on the NFB lists after a long break.
>
> To get right to the point: I'm doing research into possible alternative
> locations for our local chapter meeting, should our current location, a 
> room
>
> at the State School for the Blind, no longer be available. I also 
> recognize
> that while some chapters have an ideal meeting place near an NFB training
> center, others don't have that benefit.
>
> What other locations have local chapters found for meeting places, and how
> much have they needed to charge? How did your chapter decide on this
> location?
>
> When does your chapter meet, and for how long?
>
> What program items do you include at your chapter meetings, and how do you
> keep things interesting so that members will keep coming back?
>
> If you have any ideas on how you've answered these questions, I'd be open 
> to
>
> hearing from you. Thanks.
>
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