New Horizons Un-Limited Inc.

Our 4th Annual New Horizons Un-Limited Benefit Golf Outing, scheduled for Wednesday, June 6, 2007 at Hawk's View Golf Club in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, has proven to be great fun for all. With a best ball format and our unique Mulligan Package, you need not be an expert golfer to enjoy our outing. Plus, our after-round banquet offers a great opportunity to catch up with old friends and network with colleagues. Why not join us for a great day of golf!

We are also offering a number of terrific promotional sponsorship opportunities in a variety of price ranges. Our golf outing draws more than 100 golfers from the Greater Milwaukee and Greater Chicago areas, offering an excellent opportunity to reach this audience.

This year's Raffle for Opportunity and Silent Auction, our 5th annual, was a great success. Thanks to a number of great prizes donated by some wonderful people and businesses and the tremendous effort put forth by our volunteers, we saw a 50% increase in raffle ticket sales.

We'd like to extend our thanks to all of our generous prize donors…

Of course we cannot go without saying a big thanks to all of our volunteers who kindly solicited donations, sold raffle tickets, coordinated the silent auction gift baskets and staffed the event. Thank you all for your time and creative talents.

Effective March 1, 2007 New Horizons Un-Limited is offering membership to our organization. If you live in the Southeastern Wisconsin area, consider becoming a member of New Horizons Un-Limited.

Membership offers the following benefits:

• A subscription to CommunicAbility, our quarterly newsletter covering issues and resources for our disability community.

• A subscription to AccessTech Tips, our quarterly publication that covers important computer use and maintenance tips.

• Members-only discounts for NHU workshops and events.

• Eligibility for NHU's Access Technology Computer Redistribution Program, introductory computer training and technical support services. This program will only be open to members of NHU. Computer Redistribution Program applicants submitting applications after February 28, 2007 are subject to the membership requirement.

How Do I Become a Member?

To become a member of New Horizons Un-Limited complete our Membership Form and submit a membership fee of $20. To continue receiving your membership benefits, you must renew your membership on an annual basis.

In the event that you cannot afford the membership fee, you may also "earn" your membership by volunteering 4 hours of your time in support of NHU's programs.

Volunteer activities will take place in NHU's downtown Milwaukee office.

How do we do what we do? One Saturday each month NHU Community volunteers gather to exchange ideas and work together to make ready and refurbish used computers for our computer distribution program and work on various special office and clerical projects. This is a great time for us to come together as a community, forge friendships in our common goal to offer these opportunities to people with disabilities.

• For our Access Technology Initiative, we clean and refurbish donated used computers, monitors, keyboards and mice and organize the equipment rooms. Refurbishers trade ideas and train in the current procedures and software additions.

• For our Access Information Initiative we work on special website enhancements and research.

• Our office and clerical volunteers assemble computer application and recipient packets, special mailings and inventory equipment.

Get involved in your community! Join the New Horizons Un-Limited Volunteer Network. We invite you to volunteer your time and talents in support of people with disabilities in our community!

IF YOU…

• Want to learn more about local and national disability issues,
• Wish to gain leadership skills,
• Wish to gain real work experience,
• Are interested in making new friends, or
• Simply want to lend a helping hand…

…NHU CAN FIND A FUN AND EXCITING ASSIGNMENT FOR YOU!

We have volunteer opportunities available in:

Fundraising and Development
Community Outreach
Research and Writing
Website Editing and Maintenance
Computer Refurbishing and Cleaning
Office and Clerical

We are challenging you, our visitors to complete 10,000 searches on behalf of New Horizons Un-Limited in April. To participate in our challenge, click on the GoodSearch logo. Once on GoodSearch, type New Horizons into the "I'm Supporting" box and click "verify". A list of organizations will appear. Scroll down the list and select New Horizons Un-Limited Inc. (Milwaukee, WI) from the list of charities. Finally, search away!

Your search can go a long way in helping us improve and expand our services to our community members with disabilities.

Let the challenge begin…

New Horizons Un-Limited has collaborated with Miller Engineering Inc., Strass-Maguire and Associates Inc., architects, Wetosha-Salem Kiwanis, Richard Bong State Recreation Area and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources to coordinate accessibility issues and the design with the State of Wisconsin for an accessible cabin for people with disabilities near Burlington, Wisconsin.

This cabin, which would be Wisconsin's State Parks 7th fully accessible cabin, for people with disabilities and their families, will be built within the Sunset Campground of Richard Bong State Recreational Area which is approximately 6 miles east from Burlington and 41 miles southwest of Milwaukee in Kenosha County. The Richard Bong State Recreation Area, although "located in the most populated part of Wisconsin feels like you are out in the middle of no-where." "A recreation area differs from a state park or forest in that it offers additional activities not traditionally found in state parks. Visitors may fly model airplanes, rockets, hang gliders, and hot air balloons. The recreation area encompasses 4,515 acres of rolling grassland, savanna, wetlands and scattered woodland, is open year-round and has 41.1 miles of trails for hiking, mountain biking, cross-country skiing, horseback riding, snowshoeing, and dirt bike riding. The park, which already includes the following accessible features: an urban fishing pond, three hunting blinds, an observation platform at the wildlife refuge, five accessible campsites, and accessible picnic tables, buildings and most shelters," is an ideal location for an accessible cabin.

Plans for the accessible cabin will feature numerous accessible amenities, ensuring that all people with disabilities can freely use the cabin and the park's amenities without fear of hidden barriers. Features will include a fully accessible bathroom and kitchen and an accessible sleeping porch. All rooms will be large enough to allow for people in wheelchairs to move freely about the cabin from the entrance ramps, doorways, undercounter space and the roll-in shower. Furthermore, all fixtures and controls will be accessible, including the faucets, toilet, door and cabinet handles and light switches.

New Horizons Un-Limited has collaborated with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources' Accessibility Coordinator, Wisconsin Telephone Pioneers, Friends of High Cliff State Park, and Miller Engineering on the design of accessible cabins in the past for several Wisconsin State Parks. Accessible Cabin projects include cabins at High Cliff State Park on Lake Winnebago, Kettle Moraine State Forest - Southern Unit (Eagle, WI), and Mirror Lake State Park (Baraboo, WI).

The Wisconsin DNR, attributes the success of these projects to the residents of Wisconsin who, through their generous donation of funds, building plans, furniture, equipment, time and talent, have made the cabins a reality.

Tickets are now on sale for our 5th Annual Raffle, which will be drawn on March 22, 2007. You need not be present at the drawing to win. 1st prize is a stunning .28 CTW Diamond Pendant, generously donated by Gold 'n Treasures of Hales Corners, Wisconsin. Other prizes include a Gentlemen's Citizen Eco Drive Watch, a portable DVD Player, and much more.

Tickets: $3 each · 2 for $5 · 5 for $10

To purchase your raffle tickets, please mail a check with your request, specifying the number of tickets to:

NEW HORIZONS UN-LIMITED INC.
811 East Wisconsin Avenue, Suite 937
Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53202

Our Annual Raffle is one of our major fundraising events of the year, raising thousands of dollars annually to support our initiatives, through which we make information and life experiences more accessible to individuals with lifelong disabilities and their families. To request a complete list of prizes, please give us a call at (414) 299-0124.

Thanks to countless hours donated by our volunteer computer refurbishers and of course the computer donations from many, many caring individuals and businesses, we served a record number with our Computer Redistribution Program in 2006. More than 130 individuals with disabilities and their family members received a refurbished computer via our program in 2006. That is a 40% increase over last year.

2006 New Horizons Un-Limited Volunteer Computer Refurbishers

While a seemingly simple tool, a computer has for many of our recipients proven to be the tool they needed to rediscover their self-confidence and pursue their personal goals. Since receiving training and a computer of their own, so many of our students and computer recipients have proclaimed, "I am so proud of myself…I had no idea I was capable of this."

From the artist that is learning how to create a digital library of her work, to the writer that has successfully submitted his editorials for publishing in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, to the student that is successfully preparing college-level essays, we have seen, first-hand, the accomplishments and pride made possible by their computers.

Of course, behind every success there stands a legion of individuals and businesses, without which we simply could not have accomplished all that we have this past year. While every contribution has added a great deal of value to our program, there are a few standout contributors this year that we would like to acknowledge.

Medical Associates, Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin
Upon recently upgrading computers at their area offices, Medical Associates was in search of a home for their recently "retired" computers. Thanks to one of our dedicated golf outing sponsors, Good Electric, Medical Associates learned about our program and was impressed by its mission. In late October, with the help of Good Electric, we picked up more than 100 Pentium III Gateway desktop computers. We've already refurbished and distributed nearly 50 of these systems to applicants that may not have otherwise received a computer this year.

Roundy's Supermarkets, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Our "next door neighbor" for several years now, we would often hustle past Roundy's with carts full of computers. Sam, the security guard at the time, took notice and extended the use of the loading zone in front of their building - a much-appreciated offering. Upon moving into Office Services, Sam recalled our program and suggested that Roundy's consider donating their recently retired PCs to our organization. After a little coordination, we eagerly accepted the donation of more than 40 Pentium III and IV Dell desktop computers in mid-December. We have already begun preliminary refurbishing and look forward to distributing these rather robust PCs in early 2007.

We simply cannot say thank you enough. These contributions have and will continue to make such a tremendous difference in the lives of those that receive computers via our program!