2024-09-12T10:24:24-07:00 2023-12-31 990EZ 2023-01-01 237128352 NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND OF MISSOURI NATI 8166795258 7928 NW Milrey Drive Kansas City MO 64152 Shelia Wright President 4106599314 2024-09-12 1 2023 2024-08-08 14:25:15Z X X www.nfbmo.org X X 27077 X 25371 175 823 220 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 488 0 488 0 27077 39507 0 0 1745 0 3985 46745 91982 -64905 309139 -1 244233 309139 244233 0 0 0 0 309139 244233 0 0 309139 244233 The National Federation of the Blind of Missouri is an organization made up of blind and sighted people working to improve the lives of blind Missouri residents by providing assistance and services to parents, blind workers, and consumers of rehabilitative 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. 0 7995 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. 39507 82619 90614 Shelia Wright President 10 0 0 0 Jenny Carmack First Vice President 2 0 0 0 Daniel Garcia Second Vice President 2 0 0 0 Becky Boyer Recording Secretary 2 0 Dennis Miller Corresponding Secretary 2 0 0 0 Carol Coulter Treasurer 10 0 0 0 Eugene Coulter Board Member 2 0 0 0 Randy Carmack Board Member 2 0 0 0 Amy Wilson Board Member 2 0 0 0 Svetlana Ehlers Board Member 2 0 0 0 Janice Grisham Board Member 2 0 0 0 Gary Wunder Board Member 2 0 0 0 Jeff Giffen Board Member 2 0 Seyoon Choi Board Member 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 MO Carol Coulter 1504 Furlong Dr Columbia MO 65202 5734743226 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 NONE NONE 1 X 44243 496636 47890 23800 20749 633318 472 1971 992 2857 6108 12400 0 0 0 0 0 0 44715 498607 48882 26657 26857 645718 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 645718 19 400 801 2971 220 4411 0 0 19 400 801 2971 220 4411 0 0 44734 499007 49683 29628 27077 650129 0.99322 0.99377 0.00678 0.00623 X Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 10 $30,850 National Federation of the Blind and $1,000 Jacobus tenBroek Memorial Fund to support nationwide blindness programs, $7,657 to support local chapters and blind people. Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 16 Supplies $2,121, Travel $14,183, Conference Convention & Meetings $27,098, Information Technology 225, Other $3,118 Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 20 Adjustment to account for rounding issue.