<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal">Please see the very important message below, from Andy Verhoff! </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:16pt">Good Afternoon, History Fund Review Panel “Class of 2016.”</span></i></b> <span style="font-size:12pt">I’ll cut right to the chase. We need you to write to you state representative and state senator on behalf on the Ohio History Fund tax check-off. And we need you to do it right away. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt">Tax check off recipients are down again this year, like they were last year and it does not look like we’re going to cross our state-mandated $150,000 threshold for tax check-off contributions. So, we’re taking a another course. We want our lawmakers to lower the threshold to $50,000 and to lengthen the time we have to cross it from 2 to 5 years. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt">Please help! Go to this link for a pre-fab (and very good) letter you can email (or customize and email):</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12pt"><a href="https://www.ohiohistory.org/about-us/community-and-government-relations?vvsrc=%2FCampaigns%2F45853%2FRespond%3FvvcgUT%3DuokBL3ltc3upZi3obTaRwA&unregistered=uokBL3ltc3upZi3obTaRwA&vvcgRD=B749tR8AzM6gqB3b&vvsbr=AenqeO4GkuiU1hnTLMuDVg">Click Here to Advocate for the Ohio History Fund</a></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt">The point is to act fast. Your History Fund grant is because of the Ohio History Fund tax check-off. We want to keep this program going for all of Ohio’s history organizations. Since 2012, we’ve make $448,000 in grant to 47 organizations, including yours. However, we’ve received 225 applications for a total of $2.7 million! Demand for History Fund grants is strong, and the History Fund can only meet it with you help today. </span><br></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt">And please feel free to forward this email WIDELY. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt">By the way, the photo is of our 2016 class of grant recipients, which you made possible. For a list of all History Fund grant recipients to date, <span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"><a href="https://www.ohiohistory.org/preserve/local-history-services/history-fund/recipients">click here</a>. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt">Thanks! </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">Andy Verhoff | Ohio History Fund Grant Coordinator | Local History Services</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">Ohio History Connection | 800 E. 17<sup>th</sup> Ave. Columbus, Ohio 43211</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">p. 614.297.2341 | f. 614.297.2567 |</span><span style="font-size:12pt"> <u><span style="color:blue"><a href="mailto:averhoff@ohiohistory.org">averhoff@ohiohistory.org</a></span></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">Give to the Ohio History Fund on your state tax return. Visit:</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12pt"> <span style="color:black"><a href="https://www.ohiohistory.org/ohfund"><span style="text-decoration:none">ohiohistory.org/OHFund</span></a></span></span></b></p></div>