Help Peerless Rockville and other cultural institutions get through the pandemic! Please call your Congressional delegation today and ask for at least $4 billion for nonprofit museums in COVID-19 (coronavirus) economic relief legislation to provide emergency assistance through June. In addition, urge Congress to adopt a temporary “universal charitable deduction” to help incentivize charitable giving, which is expected to decline in the months ahead.

According to the American Association of State and Local History, museums nationwide are losing at least $33 million a day due to closures as a result of COVID-19 and will be in desperate need of significant federal support to maintain jobs, secure our cultural heritage, help to rebuild our nation’s tourism industry – and simply to survive the months to come.

Please ask your U.S. legislators, especially Senators, if they will be one of our champions. Telephone calls are best. A Congressional directory and more is at https://www.congressweb.com/aam/#/