Donate
Please email us or phone 617-629-0048 if you want to discuss making a donation.
Donations are tax-deductible through the Carroll Center for the Blind.
You can donate by Credit Card through the Carroll Center website.
Follow the "donate link" below and click on the button "Donate Now."
Fill in "MN ADAMOV FUND" in the "DESIGNATION" field, even though it is listed as optional.
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For tax-deductible donations, checks should be made to "Carroll Center" and clearly marked FOR MN ADAMOV FUND -- mail to:
President's Office/MN Adamov Fund
Carroll Center for the Blind
770 Centre Street
Newton MA 02458
How You Can Help/fall 2007
Any assistance we provide for blind people in Russia goes directly to people whom we've met personally.
On our visit in October 2007, we identified just over 1000 blind and vision-impaired people in St. Petersburg who are connected to 5 groups we're focusing on. They are a boarding school/orphanage with more than 280 students, a rehabilitation center that does employment and life-skills training for over 140 people, the graduates network of the rehabilitation center, an arts therapy group that is working with 80 blind youngsters, and a group of 411 blind "intellectual workers," including 150 blind university students.
We are also helping a master typhlo-pedagogue, a teacher specializing in blind education, to whom we have given a monthly stipend for two years to help with expenses for materials, teaching tools, and toys for her class in St. Petersburg. She has just taken a new job setting up the first kindergarten for blind children in a town in southern Russia, and we will continue to help her. Her salary is less than USD$200 (two hundred)/month.
We also assist a deaf-blind man in Moscow who helps other deaf-blind people use computers.
We have people in St. Petersburg and Moscow who help us--computer specialists who configure computers, drivers who pick things up at the airport and deliver them, people who can disburse money, and so on.
We have guest rooms in our apartment in St. Petersburg for visitors who don't want to pay $400/night at a hotel. All "profits" go toward our project.
The MN Adamov Memorial Fund was registered as a nonprofit corporation in Massachusetts in 2005. It is not a Federal tax-deductible organization yet. (It will cost almost $1000 for that, and that's not how we want to spend the money--unless you are a lawyer who will help us pro bono.)
Tax-deductible contributions can be made in two ways--
1) by credit card by clicking DONATE on our web site, then click the
DONATE NOW button for the Carroll Center, then click either one-time or
recurring, then click one of the three choices for privacy, then for
Designation you must type in MN ADAMOV FUND...(the web service takes a
3% fee)
2) write a check to Carroll Center for the Blind--you must write FOR MN
ADAMOV FUND, and mail it to Carroll Center/President's Office, 770
Centre Street, Newton MA 02458 or to us. The Carroll Center does not
take any fee.
You can also assist in other ways--
Spread the word to family and friends. Have them match your contribution. If you belong to an alumni or professional distribution list or listserv or a site like My Space, Facebook, Friendster, LinkedIn, etc., put out information about us and links to us. Challenge them to match your donation. Encourage people to get involved.
If you know anyone traveling to St. Petersburg or Moscow, have them get in touch with us to take things in their luggage for delivery to blind people. This is perfectly legal. People have taken notebook computers, toys, and money.
If you know anyone who could donate or arrange the donation of used notebook/laptop computers, Braille devices or white canes, let us know about each other.
We need Frequent Flyer miles to get airline tickets for our next trip.
We would like to be invited to speak to groups about our work.
If you can host a fund-raising benefit, let us know.
If you want to make a contribution to a specific program, such as the arts therapy group, or for a particular item, such as digital voice recorders, we'll make sure that happens.
If you will be a penpal (by email or Skype) with a blind person, we can connect you.
If you want to sponsor or underwrite support for a particular person or type of person (blind artist, musician, teacher of blind children), we'll give you details.
We could use some volunteer help for research, outreach/networking, website, translation, etc.
If you belong to a Lions Club or know someone who does, we'd like to hear from you.
If you know of any resources anywhere in the world that would be useful to blind students in Russia we want to know about them.
We don't take anything out of your donation for our operating and overhead expenses; that's all funded by us.
We're glad to hear any ideas or suggestions you have. Thank you.
Svetlana Adamova Sussman & Harris Sussman