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

[seville allen]

Those who want snacks go to the designated snack table and get them.  How
the actual serving is done depends on who brought them.  Some of those who
bring the snack serve it to each person; some who bring them, put them on
the table and each person serves himself.  Sight isn't a factor in getting
and /or serving snacks. 
Those with no vision ask which cookie is which, etc. and the group is always
told just before snack time what the food and beverage are. 
Sometimes blind serve sighted snackers and sometimes sighted serve blind.  
   who 

-----Original Message-----
From: nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of kaye zimpher
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 9:32 PM
To: NFB Talk Mailing List
Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] Need Advice: Chapter Meeting Locations
andProgramming

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>
To: "'NFB Talk Mailing List'" <nfb-talk at nfbnet.org>
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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