MindsEye Information Service Radio Reader, 2007

Marjorie Williams
Executive Director

Can I tell you how lucky Minds Eye has been this year to be able to continue to provide free readings of magazines, newspapers, and books to our listeners who are blind and print disabled? I cannot thank you enough for helping us to make this happen, but perhaps our listeners can shine a light on just what a difference your support has meant to their lives.

“People like me who cannot see can still
contribute to society if we have the information to make decisions, my radio gives me that information.”
– Daniel from Affton

“Without Minds Eye, life would be very
dull, and I would not be able to associate with people as well as I can with information from the radio.”
–Helen from Belleville

“Because of the information I hear, I can live more independently.”
–Cynthia from House Springs

“I function so much better because of
the service. I get so much more information.” –Beverly from Saint Louis

“My days would be a lot longer and
lonelier if I didn’t have a Minds Eye
radio.” –Henry from Saint Louis
“Minds Eye helps to open up a new
world of information to people, helps
open doors that we may not have
access to. It is an eye opener.”
–Rhonda from Jennings

This has been a busy year for Minds Eye and our service to 1275 individuals in their own homes and over 10,000 living in nursing homes, hospitals, and retirement centers.

In September of 2008, www.mindseyeradio.org was launched. The new website provides listener and volunteer applications, information about upcoming events and information about how to donate to the service. Soon, our listeners will be able to stream the Minds Eye signal from that website on to their computers and even listen to programs up to a week after their original airing.

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From The Executive Director's Desk	In other exciting news, at the very end of our year in June, we began to work with our host station, 101.1 FM of Bonneville International, to increase the power of Minds Eye. As a result, in July, we began broadcasting 75 miles around Saint Louis. We can now reach your friends and family in Hermann and Louisiana, MO, Centralia and Murphysboro, IL, and everywhere in between. Making sure that the dollars that you donate are put to good use is one of our highest priorities. As you will see by the pie charts below, Minds Eye puts 76 cents of every dollar that comes to us to work in providing high quality service to people who are blind or print disabled. The number you don’t see is an donation of $184,564.60 which represents the value of the 9460 hours of time-the equivalent of 4.5 full time staffers- and energy that over 200 volunteers donated to Minds Eye last year. That in and of itself is amazing, but let me tell you what those volunteers did with that time…They produced 3848 hours of unique programming, put on six fundraising events that raised over $59,000 to support Minds Eye, made over 1000 of calls to our listeners to see how they were enjoying our programs, cut up 1560 newspapers, sent out over 150 radios to new listeners, and did hundreds of other little things that made Minds Eye reach every goal we had for this year. Without them and without you, Minds Eye would not be able to make sure that our listeners are getting high quality news and information each and everyday. So thank you, from Daniel, Helen, Cynthia, Beverly, Henry, Rhonda, myself, and all of our listeners for being such a good friend to Minds Eye. Looking to the future with vision and hope, Marjorie Williams
Marjorie Williams Executive Director Can I tell you how lucky Minds Eye has been this year to be able to continue to provide free readings of magazines, newspapers, and books to our listeners who are blind and print disabled? I cannot thank you enough for helping us to make this happen, but perhaps our listeners can shine a light on just what a difference your support has meant to their lives. “People like me who cannot see can still contribute to society if we have the information to make decisions, my radio gives me that information.” – Daniel from Affton “Without Minds Eye, life would be very dull, and I would not be able to associate with people as well as I can with information from the radio.” –Helen from Belleville “Because of the information I hear, I can live more independently.” –Cynthia from House Springs “I function so much better because of the service. I get so much more information.” –Beverly from Saint Louis “My days would be a lot longer and lonelier if I didn’t have a Minds Eye radio.” –Henry from Saint Louis “Minds Eye helps to open up a new world of information to people, helps open doors that we may not have access to. It is an eye opener.” –Rhonda from Jennings This has been a busy year for Minds Eye and our service to 1275 individuals in their own homes and over 10,000 living in nursing homes, hospitals, and retirement centers. In September of 2008, www.mindseyeradio.org was launched. The new website provides listener and volunteer applications, information about upcoming events and information about how to donate to the service. Soon, our listeners will be able to stream the Minds Eye signal from that website on to their computers and even listen to programs up to a week after their original airing.
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