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CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION OF WORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION, INC. Under Section 402 of the Not-for-Profit Corporation Law FIRST: The name of the corporation is Working Families Organization, Inc. SECOND: The corporation is a corporation as defined in subparagraph (a)(5) of Section 102 (Definitions) of the Not-for-Profit Corporation Law. THIRD: The purposes for which the corporation is formed are to improve the lives of middle-class, working-class and poor people in New York State by advancing the equitable division of public and social goods. promoting an honest democratic process and increasing the efficiency and equality in governance. Nothing herein shall authorize the Corporation, directly or indirectly, to engage in or include among its purposes, any of the activities mentioned in NotFor-Profit Corporation Law, Section 404(b)-(u) or Social Service Law Section 460-a. FOURTH: The corporation shall be a Type B corporation pursuant to Section201 of the Not-for-Profit Corporation Law. FIFTH: The corporation's office is to be located in Kings County, State of New York. SIXTH: The names and addresses of the initial directors of the corporation are: Patrick Gaspard 2-4 Nevins Street, 3rd Floor Brooklyn, NY 11217 Bertha Lewis 2-4 Nevins Street, 3rd Floor Brooklyn, NY 11217 Robert Master 2-4 Nevins Street, 3rd Floor Brooklyn, NY 11217 Sam Williams 2-4 Nevins Street, 3rd Floor Brooklyn, NY 11217 SEVENTH: The Secretary of State is designated as agent of the corporation upon whom process against it may be served. The address which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process accepted on behalf of the corporation is 2-4 Nevins Street, 3rd Floor, Brooklyn, New York 11217. IWorldox Files\NU567\OOI\01 \06005657. DOC)

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EIGHTH: The corporation shall be organized and operated exclusively to promote the social welfare and common good of the people of New York, and no part of the net earnings of the Corporation shall be distributable to or inure to the benefit of any member, trustee, officer or director of the Corporation, or to any private individual.

NINTH: The name and address of the incorporator, who is over eighteen years of age, is Kevin A. Finnegan, Esq., c/o Levy Ratner, P.c., 80 Eighth Avenue, New York, New York 100] 1.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, this certificate has been signed by the incorporator on this Nday

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( 0607 12000D11 CERTIFICATE

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Kevin A. Finnegan, Esq. c/o Levy Ratner, P.C. 80 Eighth Avenue New York, NY 10011

STATE Of NEW YORK

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I hereby certify that the annexed copy has been compared with the original document in the custody of the Secretary of State and that the same is a true copy of said original. Witness my hand and seal of the Department of State on

November 2, 2006

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