Articles of Incorporation
of the University District Organization, Inc.

The undersigned, a majority of whom are citizens of the United States, desiring to form a corporation, not for profit, under Sections 1702.01 et seq., Revised Code of Ohio, do hereby certify:

FIRST.

The name of said corporation shall be University District Organization, Inc.

SECOND.

The place in Ohio where the principal office of the corporation is to be located is Columbus, Franklin County.

THIRD.

Subject to the limitations herein, the corporation is organized and is to be operated exclusively for charitable, scientific and educational purposes; including for such purposes as the following:

To serve as a neighborhood community organization for that portion of the City of Columbus, Ohio, bounded generally by Ackerman Road, Dodridge and Glen Echo Ravine on the north, the Penn-Central Railroad to Fifth, west to High and south to Third on the east, Third Avenue on the south, and Kenny Road south to Fifth, east to the Olentangy River and south to Third Avenue on the west.

To foster healthful neighborhood relations and to act as a catalyst in putting into action the goodwill of those who live and work in the neighborhood;

To assist public and private agencies in promoting worthy programs of social welfare of the neighborhood and among its inhabitants;

To expand opportunities for, and benefits from, education, health, safety, economic security and democratic self-government within the neighborhood;

To foster human and civil rights of all those who live and work in the neighborhood.

To carry out and take part in programs and activities designed to encourage neighborhood improvement.

FOURTH.

No part of the net earnings of the corporation shall inure to the benefit of or be distributable to its members, trustees, officers, or other private persons, except that the corporation shall be authorized and empowered to pay reasonable compensation for services rendered and to make payments and distributions in furtherance of the purposes set forth in Article third hereof. No substantial part of the activities of the corporation shall be the carrying on of propaganda, or otherwise attempting to influence legislation, and the corporation shall not participate in, or intervene in (including the publishing or distribution of statements) any political campaign on behalf of any candidate for public office. The income of the corporation for each taxable year is to be distributed at such time and in such manner as not to subject the foundation to tax under Section 4942 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 as amended. The foundation is prohibited from (1) engaging in any act of self-dealing as defined in Section 4941(d), (2) retaining any excess business holdings as defined in Section 4943©, (3) making any investments in such manner as to subject the foundation to tax under Section 4944, and (4) making any taxable expenditures as defined in Section 4945(d), all said section references being to the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 as amended.

FIFTH.

Upon the dissolution of the corporation, the board of Trustees shall, after paying of making provision for the payment of all of the liabilities of the corporation, dispose of all of the assets of the corporation exclusively for the purposes of the corporation in such manner, or to such organization or organizations organized and operated exclusively for charitable, educational, religious, or scientific purposes as shall at the time qualify as an exempt organization or organizations under Section 501©(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 (or the corresponding provision of any future United States Internal Revenue Law), as the Board of Trustees shall determine Any of such assets not so disposed of shall be disposed of by the Court of Common Pleas of the county in which the principal office of the corporation is then located, exclusively for such purposes or to such organization or organizations, as said Court shall determine, which are organized and operated exclusively for such purposes.

SIXTH.

The following persons shall serve said corporation as trustees until the first annual meeting or other meeting called to elect trustees.

William J. Griffith 190 N. Oval Drive, Columbus, Ohio 43210
Jonathan N. Mitchell 30 W. Woodruff Ave., Columbus, Ohio 43210
(Mrs) Mary K. Noonan 650 Ackerman Rd., Columbus, Ohio 43202
Charles W. Pavey, III 42 E. Gay St., Columbus, Ohio 43215
Stanley D. Sells 1895 Summit St., Columbus, Ohio 43201
Clyde R. Tipton, Jr. 505 King Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43201

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have hereunto subscribed our names, this 26th day of February, 1971.

Original Appointment of Agent

The undersigned, being at least a majority of the incorporators of University District Organization, Inc., hereby appoint Charles W. Pavey, III, a natural person resident in the county in which the corporation has its principal office, a corporation having a business address in the county in which University District Organization, Inc. has its principal office, upon whom any process, notice or demand required or permitted by statue to be served upon the corporation may be served. His complete address is 42 East Gay Street, Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio, 43215.
February 26, 1971

University District Organization, Inc.

Gentlemen: I hereby accept appointment as agent of your corporation upon whom process, tax notices or demands may be served. ­ Charles W. Pavey III