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2008 Scholarship Awards Program
Building Opportunities for the Blind
in Education and Beyond
This year the National Federation of the Blind of Colorado will be awarding at least $15,000 in scholarship funds for deserving students.
If you are a blind student from Colorado, PLEASE APPLY IMMEDIATELY!
If you know a legally blind student from Colorado, please encourage them to apply now!
DEADLINE: Tuesday, April 15, 2008
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The NFBCO 53rd ANNUAL STATE CONVENTION HIGHLIGHTS
Agenda — Audio Files — Photo Gallery
MAKING A DIFFERENCE, CHANGING LIVES!
Pictured are Representative Joe Rice (D-Litteton), Governor Bill Ritter, and NFB members James Gashel and Betsy Zaborowski. Representative Rice was honored at the state convention with the Distinguished Service Award in recognition of his longstanding leadership and commitment to securing a brighter future for the blind of Colorado. Governor Ritter, the first Colorado governor to ever address a NFB of Colorado state convention, told the audience that his Promise of Colorado would include the blind. Jim Gashel was recently named Vice President of Marketing of K-NFB Reading Technology, Inc., a company formed by the National Federation of the Blind and inventor Ray Kurzweil to develop and market the Kurzweil–National Federation of the Blind Reader and other technologies to assist persons who cannot read print. His wife, Betsy Zaborowski, was the first Executive Director of the NFB Jernigan Institute located in Baltimore, Maryland.
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K-NFB Reading Technology, Inc. presents the ultimate solution to your everyday reading needs—the Kurzweil National Federation of the Blind Reader. This portable device will revolutionize the way you deal with the avalanche of print you confront each day.
Sorting mail, checking ATM receipts, glancing at handouts—busy people think nothing of doing such tasks on the run, unless they are blind. We have needed human readers or scanners and software programs for such jobs—until now.
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...revolutionizing attitudes about blindness and promoting independence
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Training at the Colorado Center for the Blind encompasses all the skills needed to compete equally with sighted peers; more importantly, it teaches people to have high hopes and high expectations. Our programs gives blind people the genuine confidence and skills necessary to take those hopes and dreams to the ultimate conclusion--reality. www.cocenter.org |
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FREE SERVICE TO THOSE WHO CANNOT READ REGULAR NEWSPRINT!
HUNDREDS OF NEWSPAPERS AVAILABLE
HEAR A DEMO NOW! Television Listings Now Available
Please call NFBCO NEWSLINE Coordinator Kevan Worley at 719-527-0488 for more info.
Subscribers to NEWSLINE should use their local access number whenever possible.
- Colorado Springs 719-302-2379
- Pueblo 719-404-3206
- Northern Colorado 970-372-1152
- Denver metro area 303-552-5797
- Outside the local access area call 1-888-882-1629
NFB PLEDGE
I pledge to participate actively in the effort of the National Federation of the Blind to achieve equality, opportunity, and security for the blind; to support the policies and programs of the Federation; and to abide by its constitution.
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