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

[kaye zimpher]

Our chapter leaders sometimes ask in board meetings "why don't members get 
involved more and do more stuff with/for the chapter." Well the answer 
whether we want it to be or not is that they may feel a sense of not being 
believed to be able to do the task at hand.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "seville allen" <ceoallen at verizon.net>
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Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2008 5:23 PM
Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] Need Advice: Chapter Meeting Locations 
andProgramming


> It s the daily subtle things that undermine a blind person's confidence.
> That low vision person needs to be served more often by a blind person and
> he/she may learn that it is really okay.  It is behavior that speaks 
> louder
> than words.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of kaye zimpher
> Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 9:46 PM
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> Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] Need Advice: Chapter Meeting Locations
> andProgramming
>
> I think that is the way it should be. In our chapter, there is a lot of
> discomfort among the low-vision folks if a totally blind person wants to
> serve snacks. I remember being told once by someone at the table "you 
> should
>
> let me do that because I can see." I'm sure the person meant no harm, but 
> it
>
> is not exactly promoting the philosophy we believe. Snacks are definitely
> not a big deal in the grand scheme of things, but that kind of bleeds over
> in to other topics.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "seville allen" <ceoallen at verizon.net>
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> Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] Need Advice: Chapter Meeting Locations
> andProgramming
>
>
>> 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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