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RFB&D in the News:

3/5/2010 Volunteers Help Blind Students Enjoy Reading Twenty volunteers came together on Tuesday to record audio books that help people who are visually impaired or suffer from dyslexia to experience the joy of reading. The effort was part of the national Read Across America Day, and was held by Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic. more...

3/3/2010 EducationNews.org: An Interview with Alyssa Lang: Success Story Alyssa Lang was diagnosed with dyslexia in her junior year in high school, and she struggled and compensated for years by literally memorizing every word she encountered. She graduated with a 4.31 GPA and now attends Notre Dame. more...

2/23/2010 American Volunteerism At Its Best With RFB&D Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic (RFB&D, www.rfbd.org) has one mission: to provide audio textbooks to print-impaired students at every level, from grade school to grad school. This non-profit organization relies entirely on volunteers like me1 to convert the printed page into audio recordings. The organization serves over 200,000 student members across the U.S., and circulated over half a million audio books in 2008 – while adding nearly 7,000 titles to the list available in that year. more...

2/2/2010 For dyslexic and blind, sounds help replace sight WASHINGTON – Michele Shepherd is a loving mother of three. She has successfully started two companies and has served on several boards in Virginia. But when she was 35, Shepherd was diagnosed with dyslexia, a disorder that impairs reading ability. more...

3/5/2010

Volunteers Help Blind Students Enjoy Reading

Twenty volunteers came together on Tuesday to record audio books that help people who are visually impaired or suffer from dyslexia to experience the joy of reading. The effort was part of the national Read Across America Day, and was held by Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic. more...

3/3/2010

EducationNews.org: An Interview with Alyssa Lang: Success Story

Alyssa Lang was diagnosed with dyslexia in her junior year in high school, and she struggled and compensated for years by literally memorizing every word she encountered. She graduated with a 4.31 GPA and now attends Notre Dame. more...

2/23/2010

American Volunteerism At Its Best With RFB&D

Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic (RFB&D, www.rfbd.org) has one mission: to provide audio textbooks to print-impaired students at every level, from grade school to grad school. This non-profit organization relies entirely on volunteers like me1 to convert the printed page into audio recordings. The organization serves over 200,000 student members across the U.S., and circulated over half a million audio books in 2008 – while adding nearly 7,000 titles to the list available in that year. more...

2/2/2010

For dyslexic and blind, sounds help replace sight

WASHINGTON – Michele Shepherd is a loving mother of three. She has successfully started two companies and has served on several boards in Virginia. But when she was 35, Shepherd was diagnosed with dyslexia, a disorder that impairs reading ability. more...

Senior Leadership Team:

President & CEO, John Kelly
Chief Operating Officer, Andrew Friedman
Senior Vice President, Information Technology, Peter Beran
Chief Marketing Officer, Andy Malavsky
Chief Program Officer, Mike Kurdziel
Vice President, Public Policy & Advocacy, Brad Thomas
Chief Organizational Development Officer, Gretchen Castle

Board of Directors:

Chair: Andrew Hofer, of Princeton, NJ, Managing Director at Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. Investment Management
Co-Vice Chair: Celeste V. Lopes, Esq., of Plainview, NY, Deputy Bureau Chief in the Rackets Division, Kings County District Attorney's Office
Co-Vice Chair: Peter C. Erichsen, of Boston, MA, Partner, Ropes & Gray, LLP
Treasurer: James Golubieski, of Cranbury, NJ, President of New Jersey Health Foundation, Inc. and the Foundation of University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey

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RFB&D, a 501(c)3 nonprofit, is funded by grants from the U.S. Department of Education, state and local education programs, and the generous contributions of individuals, foundations and corporations.