[Nfbnet-members-list] Click to Give Campaign Closes Soon - How You Can Help

[Chang, Patti]

Our click to give campaign will close on July 26 so we need your help 
right away.

You will recall that our Imagination Fund Committee kicked off a 
Click to Give campaign at our national convention. Click to Give 
allows anyone to make a donation to the National Federation of the 
Blind easily. This is an opportunity for us to identify those 
individuals who are not members of the organization but want to 
support the good work that we do. We need your help identifying 
individuals in your extended network of family, friends, colleagues, 
and service providers. Their gift will assist a newly blinded person 
with independent travel through our free white cane program, help a 
child to learn to read through our Braille Reading Pals program, 
assist blind veterans to regain their independence, and so much more.

How You Can Help
Please take the time to share the names and email addresses of 
potential supporters by visiting 
<https://nfb.org/give2017>https://nfb.org/give2017. We will send an 
email inviting all of these individuals to share in the great things 
we do every day to help blind people live the lives we want.

Filling out the form will take only a few minutes. It asks for your 
name and email, as well as the names and emails of those you believe 
might give. We can do the rest.

OF course, if you also reach out to your contacts to explain the 
campaign, tell your personal story, and ask them to give, it 
increases the likelihood of success. We have developed talking points to help.
Talking Points:
1. Tell your story.
2. Talk about programs that are easy to understand.
3. We give the gift of mobility through our free White Cane program.
4. We gift children with literacy through our free Braille Books.
5. We teach kids to read through BELL.
6. Literacy correlates with employment.
7. Most of all we help blind people live the lives we want. (Tell how 
we do that. We push each other to achieve. We instill confidence.)

So, after you visit <http://nfb.org/give2017>http://nfb.org/give2017 
and fill out our online form with your contacts, you could also send 
an email or text saying something like:
Dear Joe,

I am dropping a note to ask for your help. I am a proud member of the 
National Federation of the Blind. The NFB gave me the confidence to 
go to school, take on a career, raise my children, and live the life 
I want. It is other members who taught me to put bells on John's 
shoes when he was small and who push me to master technology in my 
new job. We are reaching out with a Click to Give campaign. We will 
email you at the start of our campaign, and I hope that you will 
respond with a gift. If you do, you contribute to the National 
Federation of the Blind.

The National Federation of the Blind helps newly blinded people 
regain mobility through a free white cane program, teaches Braille to 
children, distributes free Braille books to kids, assists blind 
veterans to regain their independence, and so much more. This is a 
cause that has truly impacted my life and helps blind people live the 
lives we want every day. Please make a difference through your donation.

Sincerely,

Please reach out to our Imagination Committee Chair Everette Bacon 
personally with questions at (801) 631-8108 or at 
<mailto:baconev at yahoo.com>baconev at yahoo.com.

Let's build the Federation one gift at a time. Thank you all for 
contributing your time and talent to make our dreams come true.



Patti S. Chang Esq.
Director of Outreach
200 East Wells Street, Baltimore, MD 21230
(410) 659-9314, extension 2422 | pchang at nfb.org


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