<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div><br></div><div><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-caps: normal; width: 869px;"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="padding: 0in;"><div align="center"><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="600" style="width: 6.25in;"><tbody><tr><td style="background: white; padding: 0in;"><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="left" width="100%" style="width: 600px;"><tbody><tr style="height: 7.5pt;"><td width="100%" valign="top" style="width: 600px; background: rgb(0, 117, 201); padding: 0in; height: 7.5pt;"><div align="center"><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 0in;"><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 0in;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><img width="600" height="28" id="_x0000_i1034" src="https://nfb.org/images/nfb/images/images/top-blue-bar.jpg" style="width: 6.25in; height: 0.2916in;"><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td style="background: white; padding: 0in;"><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="left" width="100%" style="width: 600px;"><tbody><tr style="height: 7.5pt;"><td width="100%" valign="top" style="width: 600px; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-size: auto; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-origin: padding-box; background-clip: border-box; padding: 0in; height: 7.5pt;"><div align="center"><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 0in;"><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 15pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><a href="https://nfb.org/civicrm/mailing/url?u=35249&qid=10168317" style="color: blue;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" width="240" height="264" id="_x0000_i1033" src="https://nfb.org/images/nfb/images/images/nfb-logo-for-email-template.jpg" alt="National Federation of the Blind logo and tagline live the life you want" style="width: 2.5in; height: 2.75in;"></span></a><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td style="background: white; padding: 0in; border-color: initial;"><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="left" width="600" style="width: 6.25in;"><tbody><tr style="height: 15pt;"><td width="100%" valign="top" style="width: 600px; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-size: auto; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-origin: padding-box; background-clip: border-box; padding: 0in; height: 15pt;"><h1 style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 24pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Federation Phone System Outage</span><o:p></o:p></h1><p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Our phone system at the National Federation of the Blind is currently down for internal and external calls. Please know we are working to resolve this issue as quickly as possible. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. Thank you for your patience.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Please consider reaching out via email regarding your inquiries at this time. 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