American Action Fund for Blind Children and Adults
Future Reflections Special Issue on Ethnic and Cultural Diversity ANNOUNCEMENTS
How Can You Help?
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 deafblind child who wants them. The Braille Books for Blind Children program also ships to schools and libraries.
Recently we received a note from a Braille book recipient: "I work at a rehabilitation center with a blind client. When we receive our books from the American Action Fund, she reads them aloud to her classmates, which has greatly improved her confidence. These books allow me to engage her about things I know we both understand and to help find new assignments. The Action Fund has been a lifesaver. It has helped my student learn new skills and made me a better teacher."
The lives of blind people across the nation are deeply inspired by the resources provided by the American Action Fund. These resources include tactile art kits, Braille Books for Blind Children, and Future Reflections. These programs are only made possible through your support.
This is a time of uncertainty for all of us, but we humbly ask for your help. Before any of us suspected the upheaval that this coronavirus would bring, the American Action Fund had planned important work. That work must continue.
Please support the American Action Fund by making a contribution. By working together we can help blind children and adults all over the country live the lives they want, even in these difficult times. 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" to 1800 Johnson Street, Baltimore, MD 21230.
Your gift will make a difference. Please help by giving a tax deductible gift so the American Action Fund can continue to provide Braille books to children, publish Future Reflections for parents and teachers, and much more.
The Legacy Society
There is another way you can help. You can join our Legacy Society.
Often the simplest and most significant way to make a charitable donation 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. You can bequeath a specific dollar amount or percentage of your estate, after taking care of your loved ones, 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. Such a reduction 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, simply 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 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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