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HOMELESS PERSONS REPRESENTATION PROJECT,INC.______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Re: Fifth Annual Campaign to End Homelessness

Dear Friends:

Please join me in supporting the Fifth Annual Campaign to End Homelessness to benefit the Home

Persons Representation Project (HPRP). This is the second year in which I agreed to serve as the

Honorary Campaign Chair, and I cannot think of a better cause for your support. I continue to beliethat lawyers can make a difference in helping those who are homeless today and in ending

homelessness in the foreseeable future. Now, more than ever, is the time to act.

HPRP is an extraordinary organization. Simply stated, it leverages the resources of the legal

profession to help people access and maintain housing. The staff and over 430 volunteer lawyers,

paralegals and law students accept 800 cases each year giving families and individuals the toolsnecessary to obtain a home, a job, and other benefits to stabilize their lives. As Baltimore City

estimates a 66% increase in the number of homeless people living on the street since 2011 and thenumber of unaccompanied homeless youth increased 50% between 2009 and 2011, the work of HP

is needed now more than ever.

Here is one example of the effect of HPRPs work. An HPRP volunteer working with a staff memb

helped Mr. J, a homeless veteran, obtain over $3,000 per month in VA benefits, including over

$50,000 in retroactive benefits just last month. These benefits will enable Mr. J to move out of hisshelter into permanent housing, but the impact of HPRPs legal work did not stop there. With this

result, Mr. Js minor child will receive a college tuition benefit when she turns 18 that will cover the

cost of tuition at any public Maryland college.

HPRP also pursues systemic solutions to homelessness. In September 2012, HPRP launched the

Homeless Youth Representation Project, providing comprehensive legal services to the growingnumbers of children in Baltimore living without a home, unaccompanied by a mother or father.

Recognizing the State of Maryland lacked any strategy to end youth homelessness, HPRP worked wthe Baltimore Homeless Youth Initiative to draft legislation that unanimously passed the 2013 Gene

Assembly to create the first Task Force in Maryland to study the housing and supportive service nee

of unaccompanied homeless youth. The Task Force, of which HPRP is a member, will issue a repoin November that will provide a basis for statewide strategies to end youth homelessness next year.

I have already made my pledge, as has my firm. Please join us by contributing as much as you can.

You can use the enclosed donation form to send in your contribution or donate online at

www.hprplaw.org. HPRP will publicly thank donors through publication in The Daily Recordthroughout the Campaign.

Your contribution will make an enormous difference for people, like Mr. J, who need HPRPs servito obtain and maintain one of our most basic human needs a home.

Sincerely,

Sanford V. Teplitzky, Esq.Ober/Kaler, Attorneys at Law

Honorary Chair, Fifth Annual Campaign to End Homelessness

Campaign Committee

Mikhia E. Hawkins, Esq.Venable LLP

ohn Y. Lee, Esq.Gordon Feinblatt LLC

Craig B. Merkle, Esq.Goodell, Devries, Leech & Dann, LLP

David G. Sommer, Esq.Gallagher Evelius & Jones LLP

Board

rving E. Walker, Esq.Cole, Schotz, Meisel, Forman& Leonard, P.A.President

David E. Wolfe, Esq.Alex. Brown Realty, Inc.Vice President

ohn P. Smolen, Esq.Nossaman LLPTreasurer

acqueline Allen, Esq.Saul Ewing, LLPSecretary

Kathleen McGinley, Esq.Ober/Kaler, Attorneys at LawAssistant Secretary

Levern BlackmonPublic Justice Center

ohn Eidleman, Esq.Legal Services Corporation

C. Carnot Evans, III, Esq.

Marriott Internat ional, Inc.ane HarrisonConsultant

Wm. Jeffrey Hill

Shelly Marie Martin, Esq.

Kent Morrison, Esq.Crowell & Moring, LLP

Russell R. Reno, Jr., Esq.Public Justice Center

Donald Stone, Esq.University of BaltimoreSchool of Law

Matthew G. Summers, Esq.Ballard Spahr LLP

Arnold M. Weiner, Esq.Law Offices of Arnold M. Weiner

Executive Director

Antonia K. Fasanelli, JD**

* Affiliations for identificationpurposes only.

** Admitted in NY and DC only

Sanford V. Teplitzky, Esq., Ober | Kaler, Attorneys at

Honorary Campaign C

201 N. Charles St., Suite 1104 Baltimore, MD 21201 410-685-6589 410-625-0361 (Fax) www.hprplaw.org

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