The Kentucky Association of the Deaf, Inc. (KAD) is organized exclusively, by and for the deaf community, for charitable and educational purposes, with the right to receive contributions and to distribute them to organizations which qualify as exempt under Section 501 (c) (3) of the Internal Revenue of 1954 or any provisions. The specific purposes of the Corporation is for mutual assistance and encouragement of deaf people and to secure moral, intellectual and social improvement of their educational and vocational opportunities. Also it promotes measures to improve conditions and standing in society at large of deaf persons in Kentucky.