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ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
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HEARTLAND FORWARD

FIRST: The name of the corporation (the ?Corporation?) is Heartland Forward.

SECOND: The address of the registered of?ce of the Corporation in the State of Iowa is
400 East Court Avenue, Suite 110, Des Moines, Iowa 50309. The name of the Corporation?s
registered agent at such address is Corporation System.

THIRD: The Corporation is organized as a public bene?t corporation for the following
purposes: To educate and engage the public and advocate for public policy issues in order to
promote social welfare as de?ned in section 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986
and the Regulations thereunder, as they now exist or as they may hereafter be amended.
Notwithstanding any other provision of these Articles of Incorporation, the Corporation shall not
carry on any other activities not permitted to be carried on by a corporation exempt from federal
income tax under IRC Section 501(c)(4).

FOURTH: The Corporation shall have no members.

FIFTH: The powers of the Corporation shall be subject to the following terms, provisions,
and limitations:

1. No part of the net earnings of the Corporation shall inure to the bene?t of any director
or of?cer of the Corporation, or any private person, except that reasonable
compensation may be paid for services actually rendered to or for the Corporation, and
'no director or of?cer of the Corporation, or any private person shall be entitled to share
in the distribution of any of the corporate assets on dissolution of the Corporation.

. 2. In the event of the liquidation, dissolution, or winding up of the Corporation in any
manner or for any reason whatever, all of the assets of the Corporation after the
payment of the obligations and liabilities of the Corporation shall be distributed for one
or more exempt purposes within the meaning of Sections 501(c)(4) or 501(c)(3),
or the corresponding section of any future federal tax code, or shall be distributed to
the federal government, or to a state or local government, for a public purpose.

SIXTH: A director of the Corporation shall not be personally liable to the Corporation or
for monetary damages for breach of ?duciary duty as a director, except to the extent such
exemption from liability or limitation thereof is not permitted under the Revised Nonpro?t
Corporation Act, as the same exists or may hereafter be amended. Any repeal or modi?cation of
the foregoing sentence shall not adversely affect any right or protection of a director of the
Corporation existing hereunder with respect to any act or omission occurring prior to such Epeal

or modi?cation.

SEVENTH: The name and mailing address of the incorporator is as follows:

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Drew Cooper
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Kellogg, IA 50135

I, the Undersigned, for the purpose of forming a corporation under the laws of the State of
Iowa, do make, ?le and record these Articles, and do certify that the facts herein stated are true, and
I have accordingly hereunto set my hand this day of 2019.



Drew CooPer, Incorporator

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