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--></style></head><body lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1"><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="1015" style="width:761.3pt;border-collapse:collapse"><tr style="height:63.0pt"><td width="518" valign="top" style="width:388.85pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:63.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal"><img width="185" height="58" src="cid:image002.jpg@01D188E8.E4B80370" align="left" hspace="12" alt="Pollinator.90.tall"><img width="271" height="48" src="cid:image004.jpg@01D188E8.E4B80370" align="left" hspace="12" alt="header"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p></td><td width="28" valign="top" style="width:20.8pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:63.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b> </b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-autospace:none"><b> </b></p></td><td width="146" valign="top" style="width:109.35pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:63.0pt"><p class="MsoHeader" align="left" style="text-align:left;text-indent:.4pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> </span></p><p class="MsoHeader" align="left" style="text-align:left;text-indent:.4pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">MEDIA CONTACTS<b>: </b></span></p><p class="MsoHeader" align="left" style="margin-right:26.5pt;text-align:left;text-indent:.4pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Pollinator Partnership</span></p><p class="MsoHeader" align="left" style="text-align:left;text-indent:.4pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Evan Cole</span></p><p class="MsoHeader" align="left" style="text-align:left;text-indent:.4pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">415-362-1137</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.4pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="mailto:ec@pollinator.org">ec@pollinator.org</a> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-indent:.4pt;text-autospace:none"><span style="color:black"> </span></p></td><td width="205" valign="top" style="width:154.05pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:63.0pt"><p class="MsoHeader" align="left" style="text-align:left;text-indent:.4pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> </span></p><p class="MsoHeader" align="left" style="text-align:left;text-indent:.4pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> </span></p><p class="MsoHeader" align="left" style="text-align:left;text-indent:.4pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">National Park Foundation</span></p><p class="MsoHeader" align="left" style="text-align:left;text-indent:.4pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Alanna Sobel</span></p><p class="MsoHeader" align="left" style="text-align:left;text-indent:.4pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">202-796-2538</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.4pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="mailto:asobel@nationalparks.org">asobel@nationalparks.org</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-indent:.4pt;text-autospace:none"><b> </b></p></td><td width="118" valign="top" style="width:88.25pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:63.0pt"><p class="MsoHeader" align="right" style="text-align:right"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> </span></p><p class="MsoHeader" align="right" style="text-align:right"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="right" style="text-align:right;text-autospace:none"><b> </b></p></td></tr></table><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt">Pollinator Partnership Joins with the National Park Foundation to Support the 2016 White House Easter Egg Roll</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b>WASHINGTON (March 28, 2016) </b>Pollinator Partnership (P2) announced today that it has contributed to the National Park Foundation, the official charity of America’s national parks, to support the 2016 White House Easter Egg Roll at President’s Park on the South Lawn of the White House.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">Honoring the final Easter Egg Roll of the Obama Administration, this year’s theme is “Let’s Celebrate.” The event will feature live music, sport courts, cooking stations, storytelling, Easter egg rolling, and the first-ever White House Fun Run.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">In addition, the official White House Easter Eggs, sold by the National Park Foundation to support the annual event which takes place at one of more than 400 national parks across the country, are available at <a href="http://easter.nationalparks.org/">easter.nationalparks.org</a>.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">Pollinator Partnership created and debuted a unique web based tool to virtually “Plant a Window Box for Pollinators”, in partnership with USDA People’s Garden. Pollinator-friendly plants can help our nation’s bees, bats, butterflies and more, in all landscapes from farms and ranches to urban window boxes. Every plant for pollinators counts. Visitors will have fun learning and “virtual” planting at <u><span style="color:blue"><a href="http://pollinator.org/windowbox">pollinator.org/windowbox</a></span></u>. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">The White House Easter Egg Roll is a great example of the countless ways there are to <a href="http://findyourpark.com/" target="_blank">#FindYourPark</a><span class="MsoHyperlink"> </span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">and encourage every kid to experience the great outdoors</span></span>. Launched in March 2015, Find Your Park/Encuentra Tu Parque is a public awareness and education movement to inspire people from all backgrounds to connect with, celebrate, and support America’s national parks and community-based </p><p class="MsoNormal">programs. Celebrating the National Park Service Centennial and setting the stage for the Service's next 100 years, #FindYourPark complements the President’s Every Kid in a Park initiative and encourages people to discover and share their own unique connections to our nation's natural landscapes, vibrant culture, and rich history.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="color:black"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><img width="457" height="343" src="cid:image006.jpg@01D188E8.E4B80370" align="left" hspace="12" alt="IMG_6454"><b>ABOUT THE POLLINATOR PARTNERSHIP (P2)</b></p><p class="MsoNormal">Established in 1997, the Pollinator Partnership is the largest 501(c) 3 non-profit organization dedicated exclusively to the health, protection, and conservation of all pollinating animals. P2’s actions for pollinators include education, conservation, restoration, policy, and research. P2’s financial support comes through grants, gifts, memberships and donations from any interested party. P2’s policies are science-based, set by its board of directors, and never influenced by any donor. To make a donation or for information on events during Pollinator Week visit <a href="http://www.pollinator.org">www.pollinator.org</a>. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b> </b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b>ABOUT THE NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION </b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">The National Park Foundation is the official charity of America’s national parks and nonprofit partner to the National Park Service. Chartered by Congress in 1967, the National Park Foundation raises private funds to help PROTECT more than 84 million acres of national parks through critical conservation and preservation efforts, CONNECT all Americans with their incomparable natural landscapes, vibrant culture and rich history, and INSPIRE the next generation of park stewards. Find out more and become a part of the national park community at <a href="http://www.nationalparks.org">www.nationalparks.org</a>.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt">The USDA People’s Garden <b>Plant a Window Box for Pollinators</b> and Pollinator Partnership display </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt">at the White House Easter Egg Roll was placed in view of the White House honey bee hives, </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt">which can be seen in the background on the right.</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"">###</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:4.5pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Evan Cole</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Program and Development Associate</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Pollinator Partnership</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">423 Washington Street, 5th Floor</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">San Francisco, CA 94111</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">e: </span><a href="mailto:ec@pollinator.org"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1155cc">ec@pollinator.org</span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">w: </span><a href="http://www.pollinator.org/"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1155cc">www.pollinator.org</span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">p: 415.362.1137</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/ThePollinatorPartnership"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1155cc;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="40" height="40" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image007.jpg@01D188E8.E4B80370" alt="cid:image001.jpg@01D15E89.826C9660"></span></a><a href="http://twitter.com/Pollinators"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1155cc;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="40" height="40" id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image008.jpg@01D188E8.E4B80370" alt="cid:image002.jpg@01D15E89.826C9660"></span></a><a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/+PollinatorOrg/about"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1155cc;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="40" height="40" id="Picture_x0020_3" src="cid:image009.jpg@01D188E8.E4B80370" alt="cid:image003.jpg@01D15E89.826C9660"></span></a><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/PollinatorPartners"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1155cc;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="40" height="40" id="Picture_x0020_4" src="cid:image010.jpg@01D188E8.E4B80370" alt="cid:image004.jpg@01D15E89.826C9660"></span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://pollinator.org/index.html"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1155cc;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="117" height="52" id="Picture_x0020_5" src="cid:image011.jpg@01D188E8.E4B80370" alt="cid:image005.jpg@01D15E89.826C9660"></span></a><a href="http://pollinator.org/million-pollinator-garden-challenge.htm"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1155cc;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="60" height="60" id="Picture_x0020_6" src="cid:image012.jpg@01D188E8.E4B80370" alt="cid:image006.jpg@01D15E89.826C9660"></span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div></body></html>