About AAF
The American Action Fund for Blind Children and Adults is a service agency which specializes in providing to blind people help which is not readily available to them from government programs or other existing service systems. It operates through countless volunteers across the nation, overseen by a volunteer board. The purpose of the American Action Fund for Blind Children and Adults is to assist blind and deaf-blind persons in securing reading matter, to educate the public about blindness, to provide specialized aids and appliances to the blind, to give consultation to governmental and private agencies serving the blind, to offer assistance to those losing vision in their later years, to offer services to blind children and their parents, and to work towards improving the quality of life for the blind and deaf-blind.
All of the board members of the American Action Fund for Blind Children and Adults are blind and receive no financial compensation for their services. The members of the Board have succeeded in a variety of occupations and activities and have learned to deal with blindness and its inconveniences.
The American Action Fund for Blind Children and Adults has its headquarters in Baltimore, Maryland, at the National Center for the Blind. The National Center for the Blind was established in 1978 and has come to be the focal point of a great deal of the work being done to assist blind people throughout the country.
The American Action Fund for Blind Children and Adults also has offices in Tarzana, California, and volunteer workers throughout the country. The Tarzana office houses our free lending library of Braille and Twin Vision® (print/Braille) picture books for blind children, while the Baltimore office manages our Free Braille Book Program. Books are sent postage free to borrowers in the United States and Canada. We publish and distribute to deaf-blind persons around the world a free weekly newspaper in Braille. The Action Fund also distributes free Braille calendars to blind and deaf-blind people on a nationwide basis.
You may view our annual report or obtain our IRS 990 report at www.guidestar.com. Guidestar requires users to sign-up for a free log-in; once you are registered, please search for us using our original name, American Brotherhood for the Blind.