The key objectives of United for Puerto Rico include fund raising for:

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1 ! Fact Sheet United for Puerto Rico, a private non-profit organization founded under the Laws of Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Irma, redoubled its efforts and expanded its mission after Hurricane María to support communities affected by both natural disasters. o o The non-governmental organization is certified by the Puerto Rico Treasury Department and has the 501c3 federal certification issued by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service. The organization was originally conceived by the Office of the First Lady of Puerto Rico, Beatriz Rosselló, and is currently led by the private sector. Mission: Aid individuals and small businesses devastated by Hurricanes Irma and María to accelerate their recovery by helping meet housing, food and health needs, facilitating that they may rebuild their lives, communities and Puerto Rico. As part of its efforts, the organization will focus on meeting the immediate needs of those who lost their homes and property, particularly among the elderly, youth, women head of households, the homeless and the disabled. The key objectives of United for Puerto Rico include fund raising for: Relief efforts for those most in need as they reestablish their most basic needs of shelter, food, and health in coordination with institutions and complementing federal benefits such as FEMA. Collaborate with non-profit entities that specialize in providing these services and are currently addressing the needs of these groups, since they have the organization and structure to be more efficient in delivering these services. Aid small businesses in communities with financial aid to help them reestablish operations. Provide a public education campaign on available federal aid for communities in general and businesses including helping them fill out the claim forms to maximize the assistance available to those most in need. Page 1! of 7!

2 Board of Directors Aurelio Alemán, President & CEO, FirstBank Ivan Báez, Public Affairs Director, Walmart Alberto De la Cruz, President, CC1 (Coca Cola) Edwin Miranda, President & CEO, KOI Américas Herbert Lewy, General Manager, Microsoft Puerto Rico Ignacio del Valle, Regional President for Latin America and the Caribbean, Bacardí Corporation Jorge del Pino, Esq., Partner, Globalize LLP María Eugenia Ferré, Chairperson of the Board of Directors, GFR Media Morgan Schuessler, President & CEO, Evertec Roberto García, President & CEO, Triple S Management Miguel Venta, CPA Exofficio members: Beatriz Rosselló, First Lady of Puerto Rico Raúl Maldonado, Secretary of the Puerto Rico Department of Treasury Dr. Luis A. Martínez, Director of the Office of the First Lady of Puerto Rico Executive Director: Mariely Rivera Hernández Founding Members Bacardí Corporation Banco Popular Foundation Bella Group Burger King Coca-Cola Empresas Fonalledas (Plaza Las Américas) Evertec FirstBank GFR Media MMM Triple-S Sarco Walgreens Wal-Mart Page 2! of 7!

3 Total donations granted for 45 organizations, plus the generator program as of December 21, 2017: $ 10,786, Food and Water Banco de Alimentos de Puerto Rico: $100,000 to distribute food throughtout Puerto Rico s 78 municipalities. Boys & Girls Club de Puerto Rico: $225,000 to distribute non-perishable goods and hot meals in 44 municipalities. Centro de Ayuda Social: $48,000 to set up 13 kitchens to prepare hot meals for communities from Manatí to Loíza. National Puerto Rican Leadership Council Education Fund: $233,000 to supply potable water to 78 municipalities in partnership with WaterStep, a non-profit international entity that provides safe drinking water to communities in the developing world. Calvary Chapel: $96, for the operation of disaster relief centers focused on food distribution to large groups, both in the metro area and outside of the metro area. In addition to food distribution, it will provide emotional and spiritual aid in these times of crisis in Puerto Rico. Proyecto Oasis Taíno de la Universidad del Turabo: $65, to address the immediate needs of students of the Universidad del Turabo by supplying them with non-perishable food products. World Central Kitchen: $500,000 to continue the effort of providing hot meals to the victims of Hurricane Maria under the #ChefsForPuertoRico program. The grant will be used to fund the final stage of the program to meet the needs of the most vulnerable communities and populations who do not have access to hot meals with local flavors. Iglesia Evangélica Unida (United Evangelical Church): $100,000 to provide food and basic goods to communities in Yabucoa, Caguas, Las Piedras, Guayanilla, Humacao, Fajardo, Luquillo and San Juan. Health La Perla del Gran Precio: $100,000 for distribution among its 8 organization and/or programs that help HIV patients, the disabled and the homeless. Fundación de Esclerosis Múltiple de Puerto Rico, Inc: $43,100 to Support 348 patients who lost all their property during the hurricanes. This organization provides these patients with basic goods and transportation to their medical appointments to continue their treatment. Iniciativa Comunitaria: $100,000 to support their Compassion Operation initiative, which includes a mobile clinic to address the health needs and medical emergencies of communities affected by the recent natural disasters. Page 3! of 7!

4 Health Instituto Psicopedagógico: $500,000 to provide daily essential services to youth, adults and senior citizens with intellectual incapacities and address critical areas such as safety, protection, infection control, emotional support and other basic needs. American Cancer Society, Puerto Rico Chapter: $290,000 to provide emergency assistance to cancer patients, including providing shelter in the Puerto Rico Hope Lodge, (water, food, nutritional supplements, economic aid for medication, etc.) and transportation to treatment centers including transfers outside of Puerto Rico. Ser de Puerto Rico: $649,120 to establish a mobile clinic to offer medical services and basic need products to those in need. Academia de Directores Médicos (Medical Directors Academy): $100,000 to coordinate health and mental health clinics for communities in Arroyo, Guayama and Ponce. Hogar Padre Vernard (Father Vernard Home): $166, to incorporate showers and equipment for two programs: The Showers and A Productive Life. Both programs provide public health and mental health services for the homeless in the historic sector of La Perla in Old San Juan. APNI, Inc: $31,842 to offer preventive health and mental health clinics in the 78 municipalities affected by Hurricane María. Lilly's Angels & Down Syndrome Awareness Foundation: $40, to offer workshops and therapy to Down syndrome patients and their mothers. Puerto Rico Diabetes Association: $95,000 to distribute insulin though the Island and medicine to Type 1 and Type 2 patients diagnosed with diabetes. Puerto Rico Science Technology & Research Trust: $99,964 to visit patients in Utuado and distribute water filters. The objective is to educate participants on how to use water filters to prevent diseases such as Leptospirosis. Oficina Pro Ayuda Personas con Impedimentos: $100,000 to repair infrastructure at their shelters and to distribute food and water. Housing Humanitarian Assistance Cooperative Housing Foundation: $99,844 to provide tarps or zinc to repair the roofs of 200 homes in Caimito. Social Services Proyecto Nacer: $150,000 for the purchase of equipment to continue aiding teenagers with children in Bayamón and neighboring areas. Page 4! of 7!

5 American Red Cross, Puerto Rico Chapter: $500,000 for disaster relief and support the recovery of the most affected communities. United Way of Puerto Rico: $1,380,000 to continue with the effort of providing hot meals to hurricane victims and Support other non-profit organizations in expanding their community work with the provision of essential health services and other basic needs. Centros Sor Isolina Ferré: $75,000 to fund the "Abrazo Solidario" initiative (Solidary Embrace). This helps hurricane victims to replace appliances and purchase basic need products, among other aid. Centro Esperanza Inc.: $24,000 to provide youth in Loíza with an environment in which they can learn, obtain food and tools to deal with the difficulties of life after Hurricane María. Proyecto Oasis Esperanza for Eduk Educational Foundation: $84,180 to create the Hope Oasis for university students where they can receive essential services, including oral health and other health tests, educational talks, access to consultations with psychologists as well as other activities that may help in their recovery process, including motivating the creation of small businesses. Kinesis: $99,940 to offer relief services to students who suffered damages as a result of Hurricane María, including facilitating the filing of claims for FEMA aid. Niños Nueva Esperanza: $50,000 for Educational Workshops, Psychological Services and first-aid articles for kids on Toa Baja. Proyecto Villa Palmera Resiliente de Religiosas del Sagrado Corazón (RSCJ): $100,000 to impact Villa Palmera in Santurce, specifically the elderly and mental health patients. They will offer health clinics and will deliver medicines and food. Instituto Pre-Vocacional e Industrial de Puerto Rico (Pre-Vocational and Industrial Institute), Inc.: $100,000 to repair shelters located in Utuado, Jayuya, Adjuntas, Las Marías, Arecibo and Aguadilla where victims of Hurricane María have sought the protection and safety of these structures. Multisensory Reading Centers of PR: $8,097 with the support of the Puerto Rico Education Department to provide educational material and furniture for the classroom of Readers for th3 Future in the community of Lloréns Torres. Social Services Asamblea Familiar Virgilio Dávila (Virgilio Dávila Family Assembly): $11,313 to offer an afterschool program to children and youth between the ages of 6 and 16 who live in the Virgilio Dávila Public Housing Project. Hogar Teresa Toda: $38,750 to provide generators to participants and temporary housing, transportation, food and clothing on Loíza and Canóvanas. Page 5! of 7!

6 Centro Santa Luisa: $12,250 to meet the nutritional needs of senior citizens of Barrio Caimito and continue providing and expanding services to this vulnerable population. Hogar de Niñas de Cupey, Inc. (Girls Home in Cupey): $54,300 to offer psychological therapies, workshops and crafts to girls from 0 to 18 years of age. Instituto Nueva Escuela (New School Institute): $141,000 to strengthen a tutorial program and an extracurricular program to help alleviate the effects of living in the wake of Hurricane María for children and single mothers who live in the towns of Naranjito, Aibonito, Barranquitas, Yabucoa, Comerío, Cayey, Guaynabo, Las Piedras and Humacao. EcoExploratorio, Inc.: $ to strengthen an educational project for the management of natural disasters for youth from 15 to 18 years of age through the schools in towns that were heavily affected by the hurricane, such as Humacao, Toa Baja, Cayey and Utuado. Crearte: $207,700 for the Alternative Education School, in Yabucoa, that offers different types of services to both kids and teens. Services include childcare and extracurricular activities. Hogar Ruth para Mujeres Maltratadas: $67,850 to repair and renovate the shelter to secure the live of the participants. Centro Geriático San Rafael: $75,000 to offers food to residents, repair emergency, ramp and other areas that were affected due to the Hurricane. Centro Caritativo Geriático La Milagrosa: $26,000 to provide meals for seniors, repair damaged equipment, buy a refrigerator, two air conditioners and gas/diesel for cooking and transportation. Salón Literario Libro América de Puerto Rico: $95,000 to provide literary workshops and activities for people in temporary housing establishments (shelters) and other affected communities on the Island. Centro para Puerto Rico: $251,075 to create the Emergency Entrepreneurial Fund to help entrepreneurs who have completed the Center s program. Economic Development Generator Program for Small Businesses: $3,250,000 to provide small businesses with annual sales of less than $1 million para and which are registered in the Business Registry of the Puerto Rico Treasury Department with generators of 7.5 to 10 kw, an electric extension and a gas container. For donations You may donate through: -PayPal Page 6! of 7!

7 Use the link found in -ATH Móvil Retail dial the following telephone number: Business - Use: path/unidosporpuertorico -Deposits or transfers Account name: Unidos por Puerto Rico/United for Puerto Rico Account number: FirstBank Puerto Rico ABA/Routing Number: SWIFT: FBPRPRSJ Contact information For more information about the organization, or how to submit a grant application or donate, please visit Page 7! of 7!