! Fact Sheet. The key objec/ves of United for Puerto Rico include fund raising for:

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1 ! Fact Sheet United for Puerto Rico, a private non-profit organiza/on founded under the Laws of Puerto Rico in the a:ermath of Hurricane Irma, redoubled its efforts and expanded its mission a:er Hurricane María to support communi/es affected by both natural disasters. o o The non-governmental organiza/on is cer/fied by the Puerto Rico Treasury Department and has the 501c3 federal cer/fica/on issued by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service. The organiza/on 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, facilita/ng that they may rebuild their lives, communi/es and Puerto Rico. As part of its efforts, the organiza/on will focus on mee/ng the immediate needs of those who lost their homes and property, par/cularly among the elderly, youth, women head of households, the homeless and the disabled. The key objec/ves 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 coordina/on with ins/tu/ons and complemen/ng federal benefits such as FEMA. Collaborate with non-profit en//es that specialize in providing these services and are currently addressing the needs of these groups, since they have the organiza/on and structure to be more efficient in delivering these services. Aid small businesses in communi/es with financial aid to help them reestablish opera/ons. Provide a public educa/on campaign on available federal aid for communi/es in general and businesses including helping them fill out the claim forms to maximize the assistance available to those most in need. Board of Directors Page 1! of 10!

2 Aurelio Alemán, President & CEO First Bank Iván Báez, Public Affairs Director, Walmart Alberto De la Cruz, President, CC1 (Coca Cola) Herbert Lewy, General Manager, Microso: Puerto Rico Ignacio del Valle, Regional President for La/n America and the Caribbean, Bacardí Corpora/on 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: Raúl Maldonado, Secretary of the Puerto Rico Department of Treasury Execu>ve Director: Mariely Rivera Hernández Founding Members Bacardí Corpora/on Banco Popular Founda/on 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 10!

3 United for Puerto Rico total dona/ons granted for 90 organiza>ons, plus the generator program as of March 08, 2018 are $18,723, with the poten/al impact of more than 1,000,000 individuals through the following non-profit organiza/ons: Water and Food Banco de Alimentos de Puerto Rico: $100,000 to distribute food throughtout Puerto Rico s 78 municipali/es. A second dona/on of $2,500,000 was granted. Boys & Girls Club de Puerto Rico: $225,000 to distribute non-perishable goods and hot meals in 44 municipali/es. Centro de Ayuda Social: $48,000 to set up 13 kitchens to prepare hot meals for communi/es from Manal to Loíza. Na>onal Puerto Rican Leadership Council Educa>on Fund: $233,000 to supply potable water to 78 municipali/es in partnership with WaterStep, a non-profit interna/onal en/ty that provides safe drinking water to communi/es in the developing world. Calvary Chapel: $96, for the opera/on of disaster relief centers focused on food distribu/on to large groups, both in the metro area and outside of the metro area. In addi/on to food distribu/on, it will provide emo/onal and spiritual aid in these /mes 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 con/nue the effort of providing hot meals to the vic/ms 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 communi/es and popula/ons 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 communi/es in Yabucoa, Caguas, Las Piedras, Guayanilla, Humacao, Fajardo, Luquillo and San Juan. Fe Que Transforma, Inc.: $45,000 to emergency supplies, clothes and first-aid supplies to communi/es in Vieques. Metropolitan Emergency Response Team, Inc.: $100,000 to repair the roof of their center to protect the equipment that these firefighters use to respond to emergencies in order to con/nue delivering supplies throughout the Island. Centro de Bendición: $80,000 to provide 200 plates of food daily, personal supplies and psycological services to impact 700 peoples in Río Piedras, Santurce, Loíza, Fajardo and Humacao. Water and Food Page 3! of 10!

4 Casa de Oro de Caguas Inc.: $68,000 to buy food for their 350 par/cipants that they serve daily and was severely impacted by the hurricanes. Health Puerto Rico Science Technology & Research Trust: $99,964 to repair their laboratory equipment that was damaged due to the hurricane. They will be able to con/nue their clinical trials with local pa/ents as well as arract pharmaceu/cal and medical companies to invest in the Island. La Perla del Gran Precio: $100,000 for distribu/on among its 8 organiza/on and/or programs that help HIV pa/ents, the disabled and the homeless. Fundación de Esclerosis Múl>ple de Puerto Rico, Inc: $43,100 to Support 348 pa/ents who lost all their property during the hurricanes. This organiza/on provides these pa/ents with basic goods and transporta/on to their medical appointments to con/nue their treatment. Inicia>va Comunitaria: $100,000 to support their Compassion Opera/on ini/a/ve, which includes a mobile clinic to address the health needs and medical emergencies of communi/es affected by the recent natural disasters. Ins>tuto Psicopedagógico: $500,000 to provide daily essen/al services to youth, adults and senior ci/zens with intellectual incapaci/es and address cri/cal areas such as safety, protec/on, infec/on control, emo/onal support and other basic needs. American Cancer Society, Puerto Rico Chapter: $290,000 to provide emergency assistance to cancer pa/ents, including providing shelter in the Puerto Rico Hope Lodge, (water, food, nutri/onal supplements, economic aid for medica/on, etc.) and transporta/on 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 communi/es in Arroyo, Guayama and Ponce. Hogar Padre Vernard (Father Vernard Home): $166, to incorporate showers and equipment for two programs: The Showers and A Produc/ve 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 preven/ve health and mental health clinics in the 78 municipali/es affected by Hurricane María. Lilly's Angels & Down Syndrome Awareness Founda>on: $40, to offer workshops and therapy to Down syndrome pa/ents and their mothers. Health Page 4! of 10!

5 Puerto Rico Diabetes Associa>on: $95,000 to distribute insulin though the Island and medicine to Type 1 and Type 2 pa/ents diagnosed with diabetes. Puerto Rico Science Technology & Research Trust: $99,964 to visit pa/ents in Utuado and distribute water filters. The objec/ve is to educate par/cipants 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. Pequeño Campeón de Jesús: $99,970 to provide clinical and educa/onal services to kids with special needs. Familia Capaces: $100,000 to provide psychological services to people in communi/es in Cataño and Orocovis that not have access to these services. Coalición de Vacunación de PR: $184,680 to conduct a massive immuniza/on route throughout the Island. Movimiento para el Alcance de Vida Independiente: $99, to provide solar generators, rechargeable bareries and water purifiers for people with special disabili/es. Asociación de Espina Bífida e Hidrocefalia de PR: $220, to buy medicines, medical equipment and rehabilitate their therapy space to provide services. Programa del Estuario de la Bahía de San Juan: $113, to train young people at risk on how to install and work with the desalina/on plant that will provide potable water for the communi/es. Consejo Renal de Puerto Rico: $75,000 to provide medical equipment, educa/on and first-aid supplies along with transporta/on to dialysis pa/ents. YMCA of San Juan: $217,120 to offer recrea/onal ac/vi/es to the elderly and kids affected by the hurricane. They will also rebuild their physical facili/es. Housing Humanitarian Assistance Coopera>ve Housing Founda>on: $99,844 to provide tarps or zinc to repair the roofs of 200 homes in Caimito. Page 5! of 10!

6 Hogar Albergue para Niños Jesús de Nazaret, Inc.: $60,000 to repairs shelter s facili/es located in Mayaguez to ensure kid s safety. Casa de Todos: $435, to rebuild their shelter houses for 25 children and 8 women who are vic/ms of domes/c violence. Fundación Voces: $85,000 to rebuild 10 houses belonging to low-income families and repair 5 shelters for children vic/ms of domes/c violence. Casa de la Bondad: $77, to repair their shelter that provide services for women vic/ms of domes/c violence. Monasterio de Santa María de Monte Carmelo, Inc.: $25,000 to repair their shelter who suffered severe damages from the hurricanes and to provide care to the elderly with cri/cal health condi/ons. Fundación Pediátrico Inc.: $262, to repair the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit which suffered extensive damage to the roof, the A/C units and other special equipment. Hogar Escuela Sor María Rafaela, Inc.: $66, to repair damages in their physical structure, par/cularly the roof, that serves as a permanent home to girls that are vic/ms of violence. La Casa De AMPI, Inc.: $25,000 to repair the physical structure damaged by the hurricanes. This organiza/on serves as a permanent home to adult men who suffer various mental condi/ons. Social Well-Being Proyecto Nacer: $150,000 to purchase of equipment to con/nue aiding teenagers with children in Bayamón and neighboring areas. American Red Cross, Puerto Rico Chapter: $500,000 for disaster relief and support the recovery of the most affected communi/es. United Way of Puerto Rico: $1,380,000 to con/nue with the effort of providing hot meals to hurricane vic/ms and Support other non-profit organiza/ons in expanding their community work with the provision of essen/al health services and other basic needs. Centros Sor Isolina Ferré: $75,000 to fund the "Abrazo Solidario" ini/a/ve (Solidary Embrace). This helps hurricane vic/ms to replace appliances and purchase basic need products, among other aid. Social Well-Being 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 difficul/es of life a:er Hurricane María. Page 6! of 10!

7 Proyecto Oasis Esperanza for Eduk Educa>onal Founda>on: $84,180 to create the Hope Oasis for university students where they can receive essen/al services, including oral health and other health tests, educa/onal talks, access to consulta/ons with psychologists as well as other ac/vi/es that may help in their recovery process, including mo/va/ng the crea/on of small businesses. Kinesis: $99,940 to offer relief services to students who suffered damages as a result of Hurricane María, including facilita/ng the filing of claims for FEMA aid. Niños Nueva Esperanza: $50,000 for Educa/onal Workshops, Psychological Services and firstaid ar/cles 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 pa/ents. They will offer health clinics and will deliver medicines and food. Ins>tuto Pre-Vocacional e Industrial de Puerto Rico (Pre-Voca>onal and Industrial Ins>tute), Inc.: $100,000 to repair shelters located in Utuado, Jayuya, Adjuntas, Las Marías, Arecibo and Aguadilla where vic/ms of Hurricane María have sought the protec/on and safety of these structures. Mul>sensory Reading Centers of PR: $8,097 with the support of the Puerto Rico Educa/on Department to provide educa/onal material and furniture for the classroom of Readers for th3 Future in the community of Lloréns Torres. Asamblea Familiar Virgilio Dávila (Virgilio Dávila Family Assembly): $11,313 to offer an a:erschool 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 par/cipants and temporary housing, transporta/on, food and clothing on Loíza and Canóvanas. Centro Santa Luisa: $12,250 to meet the nutri/onal needs of senior ci/zens of Barrio Caimito and con/nue providing and expanding services to this vulnerable popula/on. Hogar de Niñas de Cupey, Inc. (Girls Home in Cupey): $54,300 to offer psychological therapies, workshops and cra:s to girls from 0 to 18 years of age. Ins>tuto Nueva Escuela (New School Ins>tute): $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. Social Well-Being EcoExploratorio, Inc.: $ to strengthen an educa/onal 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. Page 7! of 10!

8 Crearte: $207,700 for the Alterna/ve Educa/on School, in Yabucoa, that offers different types of services to both kids and teens. Services include childcare and extracurricular ac/vi/es. Hogar Ruth para Mujeres Maltratadas: $67,850 to repair and renovate the shelter to secure the live of the par/cipants. Centro Geriá>co San Rafael: $75,000 to offers food to residents, repair emergency, ramp and other areas that were affected due to the Hurricane. Centro Carita>vo Geriá>co La Milagrosa: $26,000 to provide meals for seniors, repair damaged equipment, buy a refrigerator, two air condi/oners and gas/diesel for cooking and transporta/on. Salón Literario Libro América de Puerto Rico: $25,000 to provide literary workshops and ac/vi/es for people in temporary housing establishments (shelters) and other affected communi/es on the Island. Fundación A-Mar para Niños Quemados, Inc.: $96,075 to offer services to burn vic/ms, workshops on how to prevent burning incidents and a massive educa/onal campaign through the Island on best prac/ces when using lamps and candles. Salesian Society: Oratorio Centro Juvenil San Juan Bosco: $56, to repair the roof and electrical system of the community s recrea/onal area at the Barrio Cantera in Santurce. Chana & Samuel Levis Founda>on: $40,000 throughout their program Metamorfosis Escolar, they will provide workshops to students, teachers and families to deal with post-trauma/c stress disorder due to the hurricane. They will also address emo/onal management and violence preven/on. Red de Albergues, Ins>tuciones y Centros para Menores, Inc.: $90,000 to provide psychosocial support for vulnerable children throughout the Island, with health professionals that will conduct individual and group ac/vi/es and will offer psychosocial support. Jóvenes de Puerto Rico Riesgo: $48,420 to repair the trailers where they offers services to young people at risk. Casa Montessori del Centro Inc.: $75,000 for a series of ac/vi/es that will develop resilience amongst the community including a health clinic and workshops regarding natural disaster management. Social Well-Being Pathstone: $100,000 to provide help with housing, direct services (such as water and food) and grants to small business that will impact 1,000 through the Island. Page 8! of 10!

9 Inicia>va Comunitaria de Arecibo: $75,000 to rehabilitate their Care Center which serves 35 low income minors. Proyecto Solar Photovoltaic Training Program de Universidad del Sagrado Corazón: $169,404 to provide technical educa/on and cer/fica/on for 175 student technicians to install solar panels. Hogar Cuna San Cristobal: $25,000 to provide direct services to 1,800 kids, including psychiatric services and medica/ons. Hogar Abrazo de Amor: $ 98,740 to establish educa/on strategies and place 100 young adults in new jobs. Casa Protegida Julia de Burgos: $63,928 to cover mental health services for 45 women and their families. Caribbean K9 Rescue Diver Team Corp: $10,000 to acquire equipment s that is necessary for search and rescue opera/ons in Arecibo and Utuado. Corporación para el Desarrollo Comunitario y Económico de Sabana Grande Corp. (SACED): $43,308 to iden/fy needs in communi/es in Sabana Grande, Yauco, Maricao and San Germán to refer health and housing cases, distribute food and acquire technological equipment for high school and college students that were affected by the hurricanes. Asociación Mayagüezana de Personas con Impedimentos, Inc.: $300,000 to to provide services to individuals with physical and mental disabili/es, provide first-aid supplies and repair their houses in Mayagüez, Añasco, Cabo Rojo, Adjuntas, Utuado and San Germán impac/ng 150 people. Colegio de Educación Especial de Rehabilitación Integral, Inc. (CODERI): $99,470 to reconstruct the therapeu/c pool, the roof, the fence and the floor of their facili/es. They will subs/tute the stair and the ramp for a specialized chair that students with mobility limits impac/ng 240 people. Programa de Educación Comunal de Entrega y Servicios, Inc. (PECES): $250,000 to develop community leaders in emergency, provide equipment and supplies to families, psychological help, legal orienta/on and housing repairs in Humacao, Las Piedras, Naguabo y Yabucoa. Juan Domingo en Acción, Inc.: $33, to coordinate support services through a social worker and deliver supplies and food to the community. Economic Development Generator Program for Small Businesses: $3,700,000 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. Page 9! of 10!

10 Centro para Puerto Rico: $251,075 to create the Emergency Entrepreneurial Fund to help entrepreneurs who have completed the Center s program. Centro de Emprendedores, Inc.: $100,000 to offer assessments, mentoring, coaching & grants to small business owners for Municipali/es at the Center of the Island. The Ocean Founda>on: $31, to replace equipment and tools for 20 fishermen in Naguabo. Founda>on for Puerto Rico: $529,650 through their model of visitor s economy, they will impact 5,000 people in Punta San/ago community in Humacao and other municipali/es such as Orocovis, Aguadilla and Isabela. Throughout a comprehensive plan with special aren/on on basics necessi/es and infrastructure, they will support the development of small business, that will have the objec/ve to develop several local businesses. Rico, Inc. (Visit Rico): $99,500 to buy a truck that would make it possible to coordinate visits with farmers and to acquire an equipped trailer for the farmers ac/vi/es thought the Island reaching 100 ecological farmers. Puerto Rico Consor>um for Clinical Inves>ga>on: $99, to repair their central office and laboratory equipment that was damaged due to the hurricane. By repairing these, they will be able to con/nue their clinical trials with local pa/ents as well as arract pharmaceu/cal and medical companies to invest in the Island. For dona>ons You may donate through: -PayPal 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/Rou/ng Number: SWIFT: FBPRPRSJ Contact informa>on For more informa/on about the organiza/on, or how to submit a grant applica/on or donate, please visit Page 10! of 10!