Access Awards (fwd)

[Hans Zoebelein <zocki@goldfish.cube.net>]

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Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 17:33:07 -0400
From: Jay Leventhal <jaylev@AFB.NET>
To: BLIND-L@UAFSYSB.UARK.EDU
Subject: Access Awards

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact:
Michael Sylvie
(212) 502-7675
e-mail: msylvie@afb.net

American Foundation for the Blind Invites Nominations for 1999
Access Awards

NEW YORK-The American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) is inviting
nominations for its 1999 Access Awards. In line with its mission to
enable people who are blind or visually impaired to achieve
equality of access and opportunity that will ensure freedom of
choice in their lives, AFB will publicly recognize and honor
individuals, corporations, and organizations with Access Awards who
have made a significant contribution to the guarantee of these
freedoms.
     Nominations for an AFB Access Award should illustrate an
exceptional and innovative effort that has improved the lives of
people who are blind or visually impaired by enhancing access to
information, the environment, education, employment, independent
living services, or technology, including making mainstream
products and services accessible.
The effort should be one that has a national impact or can be a
model for replication on a national level.
     Nominations-in print, braille, on audiocassette, or
e-mail-addressing the above criteria should be sent to: American
Foundation for the Blind 1999 Access Awards Committee, attn: Judy
Scott, AFB Southwest, 260 Treadway Plaza, Exchange Park, Dallas, TX
75235; e-mail:
afbdallas@afb.org. Nominations must be received no later than
October 23, 1998. Product brochures, patent applications, and other
materials of support substantiating the nomination should be
postmarked by the above date.
     The AFB Access Awards will be presented at a reception at
AFB's 1999 Josephine L. Taylor Leadership Institute, which will be
held in Washington, DC, March 4-6, 1999.
     The American Foundation for the Blind-the agency to which
Helen Keller devoted more than 40 years of her life-is a national,
nonprofit organization whose mission is to enable people who are
blind or visually impaired to achieve equality of access and
opportunity that will ensure freedom of choice in their lives. AFB
is headquartered in New York City and maintains offices in Atlanta,
Chicago, Dallas, San Francisco, and a Governmental Relations office
in Washington, DC.

September 1998


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