American Action Fund for Blind Children and Adults
Future Reflections Winter 2020 ANNOUNCEMENTS
The American Action Fund Needs Your Help
The American Action Fund for Blind Children and Adults purchases and distributes tactile drawing kits for children. The Action Fund needs your support to keep teaching blind children and their families what is possible.
Each child who attended one of the 2019 BELL Academies (Braille Enrichment for Literacy and Learning) was given a tactile drawing kit. "This year the children were really excited about the drawing kits," one BELL teacher wrote. "One of the cutest stories was of a twelve-year-old boy who has ROP [retinopathy of prematurity] and severe nystagmus. Drawing is difficult for him; actually, he hates it! He has a twin brother who's not a low-vision student, and he is pretty good at the craft. Our BELL student was very resistant to drawing. Once he learned to use the drawing kit under learning shades, he was ecstatic. He exclaimed, 'Yeah, now I can play Pictionary with my family!'"
For one hundred years the American Action Fund has brought Braille to thousands of blind children and adults. The Action Fund ships free books each month to any blind or deaf-blind child who wants them. Future Reflections is paid for by the American Action Fund. Tactile art is supported by the American Action Fund. We humbly ask for your help. Please support the American Action Fund by contributing. If you enjoy receiving Future Reflections, Braille books, or both, help us continue to support Braille, tactile art, and so much more.
You can donate online by visiting https://actionfund.org or you can send a check made out to American Action Fund, 1800 Johnson Street, Baltimore, MD 21230.
Join Our Legacy Society
Often the simplest and most significant way to make a charitable contribution is to plan to give a legacy gift. It is easier than you might think. You can plan to give all or part of a bank account, insurance proceeds, investment assets, real estate, or a retirement account. You can even give a required minimum distribution from your IRA directly to charity and avoid taxes on that money. After providing for your loved ones, you could bequeath a specific dollar amount or percentage of your estate to an organization whose mission is important to you. Your bequest carries with it the values and ideals that have been important to you throughout your lifetime and supports an organization whose mission you hold dear. In addition, planning for a legacy gift may reduce the total amount of your taxable estate, which can have a positive impact on any amounts you have designated for your heirs.
The American Action Fund for Blind Children and Adults Legacy Society honors and recognizes the generosity and the vision of special friends of the Action Fund who have chosen to leave a legacy through a will or other planned giving option. If you wish to give part or all of an account, simply fill out a P.O.D. (payable on death) or T.O.D. (transfer on death) form. For pensions and insurance assets, simply designate a charity as a beneficiary. If you would like to leave a legacy to the Action Fund in your will, please include the following language:
"I give, devise, and bequeath unto the American Action Fund for Blind Children and Adults, 1800 Johnson Street, Suite 100, Baltimore, Maryland 21230, a Maryland nonprofit corporation, the sum of $______________ (or) _________ percent of my net estate or the following stocks and bonds: ____________________, to be used for its worthy purposes on behalf of blind persons."
If you have any questions or would like more information, please reach out to Patti Chang at 410-659-9315. If you have included the American Action Fund for Blind Children and Adults in your will or have made some other provision for a future gift to us and would like to tell us about it, please contact Patti so we can recognize you as a member of our Legacy Society.
Legacy gifts provide for generations of blind children and adults. Please consider the American Action Fund in your future plans.
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