Greetings from the Monthly Monetary Support (MMS) program committee. Spring is just around the corner!
The MMS committee has been working diligently to maintain our goal of raising more than $100,000 annually. We have made great strides to increase this amount, but we need your help.
Joining the ACB MMS program shows real commitment and support by you, the membership. We thank all of you who joined the MMS program for the first time, and those of you who increased your monthly donations. We’re hoping that more of you will decide to join us, or raise the amount you’re already giving, so that in 2018 our annual donations will exceed $105,000.
ACB provides services and support, free of charge, to all blind people and those who are blind with other disabilities, those who are friends or relatives of blind people, employers, and those who are in the process of losing their sight. Our staff and board members work with Congress, the FCC, the Department of the Treasury and countless other government agencies and organizations to make life better for all of us. They also publish “The ACB Braille Forum,” record “The Washington Connection” (ACB’s legislative and information hotline, 1-800-424-8666), and work with blindness organizations around the world. Your monthly donations help to make this all possible.
Your contribution is tax-deductible. Whatever amount you designate ($10 minimum) will be taken out of your checking account or charged to your credit card each month. You can donate the whole amount to ACB or half of it to ACB and the other half to an affiliate of your choice. Would you like to contribute to more than one affiliate? You can. Sign up as many times as you like. Each time you sign up, half of your money will go to ACB and the other half will go to the affiliate you designate. And if it becomes necessary for you to stop your donations for any reason, you can do so, no questions asked. Finally, everybody who joins the MMS Program or increases their monthly donation by at least $5 before the end of the 2018 ACB convention will be eligible to win a fabulous prize.
There are two ways for you to sign up for the MMS program. Visit ACB’s website, acb.org, tab to the Donate Now button, and then tab to the Monthly Monetary Support Program. Or you can call or email Lori Sarff at the Minnesota office, (612) 332-3242, [email protected].
You don’t need to be an ACB member to join the MMS program. If you’re a friend or a relative of an ACB member, or you have a friend or relative who would like to support ACB, the MMS Program is a very simple way to do it. We hope to hear from many of you between the time you read this and the close of our convention in St. Louis this July. Help support the greatest organization of the blind in the United States!