Loans and Financial Assistance

Loans and Financial Assistance

American Action Fund for Blind Children and Adults Outreach Worker Handbook
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LOANS AND FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE
The American Action Fund for Blind Children and Adults operates a program of providing low-interest loans to blind people wishing to go into business or to purchase equipment to retain or enhance their employment opportunities. Any blind person may apply. Applications should be submitted to the executive director. You should work with blind people in your community who seek loans and contact the executive director for specific instructions in each case. Remember, these are loans; they are not grants.
Under certain circumstances, the American Action Fund for Blind Children and Adults can make grants to fill individual needs. Because you are knowledgeable about your community, your recommendations may often be sought when a request is received from your locality. Because financial resources of the American Action Fund for Blind Children and Adults are limited, you should help the blind people with whom you are working make the fullest possible use of all available resources. The American Action Fund for Blind Children and Adults exists to help blind people. However, the red tape in other programs should not be permitted to stifle blind people's aspirations.
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