Thank you for visiting Trike Shoppe, LLC's Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic's charity partnership webpage. We hope you will support Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic by purchasing a raffle ticket that just might win you a free trike or electric bike from Trike Shoppe, LLC. One hundred percent (100%) of all raffle ticket sales are used to support the charity work of Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic. Purchasing a Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic raffle ticket also entitles you to receive a $15.00 gift certificate complements of Trike Shoppe, LLC. Purchases made by you at Trike Shoppe, LLC with the Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic's gift certificate will result in a donation to Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic equal to five percent of purchases from Trike Shoppe, LLC, excluding tax and shipping. Before purchasing your Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic raffle ticket and collecting your free gift certificate from Trike Shoppe, LLC, we hope you will take a few minutes to learn why my husband, Steve Doroghazi, would move mountains on behalf of Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic, and why Trike Shoppe, LLC feels compelled to offer a free gift certificate.

Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic (RFBD) was founded in 1948 by Anne T. Macdonald who was a member of the New York Public Library's Women's Auxiliary. She wanted to insure that service men, who had lost their sight in combat during World War II had the education to move forward with their lives. Her belief, based on the enactment of the GI Bill of Rights, which guaranteed a college education to all veterans of the war and those who would follow them, was that "education is a right, not a privilege."

Macdonald then mobilized the women of the Auxiliary. Few veterans knew how to read braille, and live readers were difficult to come by, so the Women's Auxiliary moved on to a more creative solution. Establishment of Recording for the Blind® — as it was then known — was born.

The attic of the New York Public Library was transformed into a studio, and women of the Auxiliary began recording textbooks for the servicemen, using what was then state-of-the-art technology: six-inch vinyl SoundScriber phonograph discs, which played only 12 minutes of material per side. By 1951, demand was so great that Recording for the Blind incorporated as the nation's only nonprofit to record textbooks for blind & visually disabled students. The following year, Anne Macdonald traveled across the country to establish recording studios in seven additional cities. Today, in addition to its National Headquarters, Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic, as it is now known, has twenty-two recording studios across the United States.

Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic's sole purpose is to serve all people with "print disabilities," defined as those who can't effectively read standard print because of a disability.

Steve openly credits his parents and Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic for his academic success. Steve graduated from high school in the top three percent of this class, college in the top five percent, and ultimately graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. His hope is that with Trike Shoppe, LLC's free gift certificate offer through its charitable partnership with Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic, others will want to join his personal crusade to let the world know what can be accomplished when disabled students are given the opportunity afforded by the volunteer efforts of Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic, and many other charitable organizations just like it.

Trike Shoppe, LLC and Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic hope you will sign up for the free gift certificate being offered by Trike Shoppe, LLC. We would love for you to pay us a visit so that you can see first-hand the potential of disabled persons to become fully functional in a non-disabled society. By signing up to receive the free gift certificate from Trike Shoppe, LLC, five percent of all in-store sales will be donated to Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic. Where else can you get a free gift certificate while helping one of the greatest charitable organizations in the nation? As Steve regularly says, free is good; a free gift certificate to support learning is even better.

Purchase a Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic Raffle Ticket here.