Help build mazes for the blind

LongmontMazes for the Blind and the Mind

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Raised of $15,000 USD

Fundraising ended on May 18, 2014
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About This Project

Most parks do not have anything to offer activities for the sight impaired, and handicapped wheel chair bound visitors. This project would give everyone a great and different activity to safely enjoy. “Mazes for the Blind and
the Mind” can be built in any park with very little space requirements and can actually utilize what could be termed “wasted space”. I believe that these mazes will also provide a place, a project, for individuals to get involved, donate their time, and volunteer
to build something that they can visit, enjoy, and remember for the rest of the their lives. In a word: “Satisfaction!” I love walking through the maze although I can see where it goes. I am hoping that everyone that gets involved in this project by helping
build a maze or by helping with the funding will have the same opportunity. It is a peaceful experience. It is hard to imagine the fun, apprehension, puzzlement and joy that a sight impaired, wheel chair bound visitor, or small child must experience as they
wonder through the maze. This is what these mazes are all about.


Entrance to the first Maze built by the Lions Club in Fort Collins, CO.

Use Of Funds

$15,000 Tipping Point Goal

Tipping Point Goal


If we reach our tipping point, my wife and I will retire and begin working on building mazes throughout the United States, with our goal of a maze in every state.  We will use a portion of this money to form a
company and incorporate.  We may form a 501C Not for Profit Corporation as this project proceeds.  We will purchase a new video camera for taking better videos of each maze that we build. For the editing, we will purchase a Macintosh computer
with a good program for video editing. With this equipment we can produce professional looking videos for promoting the maze projects, as we go from town to town, state to state. For only a $1.00 pledge you can learn to make my hummingbird! For only an $8.00
pledge I will make you one myself!


http://silversmithing.homestead.com/humoffer1.jpg


 


 


 Ultimate Goal


 Our ultimate goal will cover materials to begin to build a prototype of a portable version of a Maze for the Blind and the Mind. I want to develop a light weight, highly portable, and easy to configure portable maze that could be sold and/or rented for
service club events and private parties. Some of the funds will be used to cover travel, labor and planning costs for the first maze to be built. A recreation vehicle may be purchased to save on lodging expenses, have a traveling office and to transport equipment
and supplies.


 


The Original Maze


 


 


 

$59,000 Stretch Goal


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$1.00

My copper wire sculpture of a hummingbird tutorial attached to a “Thank You” email for your pledge. You can find photos of them at http://silversmithing.homestead.com/WireClass.html You can make them yourself. This Tutorial will show you how to twist wire with a drill. Just add wire, twist and make yourself a hummingbird.

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$8.00

My copper wire sculpture of a hummingbird perfect for a plant stake. You can find photos of them at http://silversmithing.homestead.com/WireClass.html. I will make these myself by hand! I will also send you a personal thank you by E-Mail with a PDF file attached with a tutorial on how to make them yourself!

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$20.00

A personal "Thank you" from my wife and I and listed as a backer on the new Mazes for the Blind and the Mind website: MazesfortheBlind.com.

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$60.00

You will receive a certificate of appreciation suitable for printing and framing attached to our personal e-mail and “thank you”. You will also receive all the rewards above.

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$100.00

One post will be purchased and installed in the first maze complete with a small plaque with the inscription "This Post donated by "name of your choice". You will be featured on the "Maze Pillar of the Mind" web page on the Mazes for the Blind and the Mind" web site. You will also receive all the rewards above.

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$250.00

You will receive a copy of your pewter plaque that will be attached to “your” post for hanging on your wall. You will also receive all the rewards above.

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$500.00

You will be included on a pewter plaque designed and cast by Don Norris which will be installed onto the first maze that we build. You will receive all the rewards above and a personal invitation to attend the ribbon cutting ceremony for the opening of the first maze.

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$1,000.00

You will receive a copy of the plaque that will be placed on the first maze for hanging on your wall. You will also receive a copy of the video movie of the building of the first maze. You will also receive all the rewards above.

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$2,500.00

You will be contacted for your input for the final design of the plaque. You will receive a DVD featuring the building of the first maze with a personal thank you edited into your copy. Your name will be listed on a special page of the web site, Maze Angels. You will also receive all the rewards above.

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$5,000.00

You will be listed on mazesfortheblind.com as one of our “Top Maze Angel Backers” and your name on a special Maze Angel pewter plaque designed and cast by Don Norris placed on the first maze that we build. You will also receive all the rewards above.

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$10,000.00

You will become one of our “Top Maze Angel Backers” and your name on the first page of the web site and on a special “Top 10 Maze Angels” pewter plaque designed and cast by Don Norris placed on the first maze that we build. You will receive a copy of this plague for hanging on your wall. You will also receive all the rewards above.

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$20,000.00

Corporate level sponsorship of the first maze and spot on the “Home” page of the Mazes for the Blind and the Mind web site: mazesfortheblind.com. Your company will also be listed on all the backers plaques placed on the first 5 mazes as park departments permit. Your company will receive a copy of this plaque for your office. Your company will be featured on the videos produced for each of the first 5 mazes. Your company will have the right to use them in your advertising. You will also receive all the rewards above the $1,000.00 level for your company.

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$25,000.00

You will be invited to the opening ceremony and help cut the ribbon and be the first guest to enter the first maze. You will receive a special plaque installed at the entrance to the maze and a copy of it for your wall. You will receive all rewards above the $1,000.00 level.

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