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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=xmsonormal style='margin-left:.25in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white'>Do you know how to give and avoid taxes on your required minimum distribution from your retirement account? Simply direct your IRA custodian to send a gift directly to the charity and avoid paying taxes on the income from your required minimum distribution. Almost everyone over seventy-and-one-half years of age can benefit from this tax savings tool.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=xmsonormal style='margin-left:.25in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white'>Please consider a gift from your individual retirement account to the National Federation of the Blind of Maryland. Your IRA custodian will need our employer identification number (EIN), which is </span>52-1301033<span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white'>, and our street address, which is 15 Charles Plaza, #3002, Baltimore, MD 21201. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=xmsonormal style='margin-left:.25in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=xmsonormal style='margin-left:.25in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white'>Your gift will support vital programs like our Maryland NFB Braille Enrichment for Literacy and Learning Academy, student scholarships, and advocacy and training programs for students, those losing vision, and seniors. . Thank you so very much for considering a qualified charitable distribution. We can’t succeed without you. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=xmsonormal style='margin-left:.25in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Ronza Othman, </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>President</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>National Federation of the Blind of Maryland<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>443-426-4110<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Pronouns: she, her, hers<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The National Federation of the Blind of Maryland knows that blindness is not the characteristic that defines you or your future. Every day we raise the expectations of blind people, because low expectations create obstacles between blind people and our dreams. You can live the life you want; blindness is not what holds you back<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>