2024-01-08T11:30:15-07:00 2022-12-31 990EZ 2022-01-01 521301033 NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND OF MARYLAND INC NATI 4434264110 15 Charles Plaza Apt 3002 Baltimore MD 21201 Ronza Othman President 4106599314 2024-01-08 1 1 11 1 AAL2 2022 2023-04-26 12:10:37Z X X www.nfbmd.org X X 126386 X 71761 0 2290 20586 0 0 0 0 30129 12761 17368 1620 1539 81 0 112086 28675 0 0 11723 0 8784 103024 152206 -40120 560687 -71670 448897 560187 448897 0 0 500 0 560687 448897 0 0 560687 448897 The NFB of Maryland is an organization made up of blind and sighted people working to improve the lives of blind Maryland residents by providing assistance and services to parents, blind workers, and consumers of rehabilitation services. Program A: Education, Civil Rights, and Self-Organization - Operated community outreach offices to provide information to the public about blindness and how to help blind people and to locate blind persons in need of assistance. Provided assistance to blind people to attend seminars and workshops designed to assist the blind in learning methods and techniques of organizing local groups of blind people for self-help and in learning about library services, rehabilitation services, new technology, aids, devices, and other resources and materials. Developed, produced, or distributed in print, Braille, and/or recorded media materials relating to blindness. Provided information to individuals, employers, governmental agencies, and the general public through written, telephone, personal, and media contacts. Developed and strengthened state and local organizations of the blind (self-help and support groups) and provided legal assistance, encouragement, information, or advocacy assistance to blind persons. Worked to improve services of governmental and private agencies established to give services to the blind through consumer input, technical assistance, and monitoring. It is estimated that educational activities in one way or another impact upon at least one million individuals in this state annually. Such services are available to and benefit all of the blind of this state. Additionally, since improvements for blind persons in this state affect all blind persons in the country, these activities potentially benefit in excess of half a million blind people. 219 18302 Program B: Specialized Programs and Services - Provided scholarships to blind students. Provided direct assistance to individual blind persons to meet specific needs. Sponsored seminars and other activities to assist parents of blind children. Sponsored seminars and other activities to create better employment opportunities for blind persons. Helped to make available specialized aids, devices, tools, and materials for the blind-Braille writing equipment, measuring devices, white canes, clocks, watches, talking calculators, etc. Operated NEWSLINE for the Blind(R), a free digital talking newspaper service available by telephone for the blind. Provided Braille materials to the blind. Made grants to provide services of the kind described herein and to improve educational, vocational, and cultural opportunities for the blind. The activities described herein potentially benefit all blind persons in this state, and improvements in opportunities here expand opportunities for the half million blind persons in the country as well as creating more opportunities for the blind adults of tomorrow. 28455 141200 159502 Ronza Othman President 10 0 0 0 Deborah Brown First Vice President 2 0 0 0 Christopher Danielsen Second Vice President 2 0 0 0 Judy Rasmussen Secretary 2 0 0 0 Jen White Treasurer 10 0 0 0 Qualik Ford Board Member 2 0 0 0 Sharon Maneki Board Member 2 0 0 0 James Garret Mooney Board Member 2 0 0 0 Mildred Rivera Board Member 2 0 0 0 Melissa Riccobono Board Member 2 0 0 0 Marguerite Woods Board Member 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 MD Jen White 372 Paladium Court Owings Mills MD 21117 4108689516 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 NONE NONE 1 X 86689 285462 762809 79568 74051 1288579 55768 66525 20296 9922 31749 184260 142457 351987 783105 89490 105800 1472839 1472839 3721 3998 18424 21644 20586 68373 3721 3998 18424 21644 20586 68373 146178 355985 801529 111134 126386 1541212 0.95564 0.96600 0.04436 0.03400 X NFBMD Crab Feast 11848 0 11848 0 0 1000 6960 700 211 MDPOBC Wizarding Weekend 6865 0 6865 0 0 300 0 0 595 3 11416 0 11416 0 0 0 0 1545 1450 30129 0 30129 0 0 1300 6960 2245 2256 12761 17368 Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 10 $21,035 - to local chapters and blind Maryland residents to support programs, attend training seminars, and pursue higher education; $6,340 - National Federation of the Blind, 1800 Johnson Street, Baltimore, MD 21230, for nationwide blindness programs; and $1,300 - various blindness organizations to support programs. Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 16 Information Technology $712; Supplies $9,201; Telephone $80; Travel $9,438; Conference, Convention, and Meetings $80,174; Other $3,419 Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 20 Loss on investments and $1 rounding issue The National Federation of the Blind of Maryland applied for and was granted an extension; unfortunately, we still missed the November 15 deadline because of volunteer issues. We kindly request the Internal Revenue Service to forgive our lateness as we continue to improve our processes for volunteers to meet required deadlines.