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SUMMARY OF ENHANCED EDUCATION Enhanced Education is a private, tax-exempt charitable foundation incorporated in the U.S. Virgin Islands under the name J. Epstein Virgin Islands Foundation, Inc. (the "Foundation"). The Foundation was incorporated over 13 years ago in the U.S. Virgin Islands on July 13, 2000. It has three Trustees, who are Jeffrey Epstein, Darren Indyke and Erika Kellerhals. Those same individuals are the corporate officers of the Foundation. Jeffrey Epstein is President, Darren Indyke is Vice President and Erika Kellerhals is Treasurer and Secretary. Copies of the Foundation's Articles of Incorporation, its Certificate of Doing Business as Enhanced Education and the letter from the IRS granting the Foundation tax-exempt status are attached. The Foundation uses its funds, among other things, to make contributions to support other not-for-profit organizations exempt from taxation under the U.S. Internal Revenue Code. The Foundation has a strong emphasis in the support of scientific, medical, academic, educational and artistic philanthropy. Among the not-for-profit entities supported by the Foundation over the past three years are: Afya Foundation $ 5,000 Alzheimer's Association $ 25,000 Ballet Palm Beach $ 5,000 Bard High School Early College $ 125,000 Biosocial Research Foundation $ 20,000 Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health $ 100,000 Columbia University College of Dental Medicine $ 50,000 Crohn's & Colitis Foundation of America $ 30,000 Dubin Breast Center $ 125,000 Dunbar Center, Inc. $ 10,000 Edge Foundation, Inc. $ 75,000 Elton Johns AIDS Foundation $ 5,000 Florida Classical Ballet Theater $ 5,000 Humanity + $ 65,000 Independent Feature Project, Inc. 7,000 Independent Filmmaker Project $ 17,240 International Peace Institute Inc. $ 125,000 J/P Haitian Relief Organization $ 5,000 Maccabi World Union, Inc. $ 60,000 Melanoma Research Alliance $2,000,000 Massachusetts Institute of Technology $ 150,000 Mount Sinai Hospital $ 50,000 Mount Sinai School of Medicine $ 50,000 Motion Picture and Television Foundation $ 15,000 Museum of the Rockies, Paleontology $ 10,000 National MS Society $ 25,000 NEURO.tv, Inc. $ 25,000 New York Academy of Art $ 25,000 1 EFTA01119775 New York Hall of Science $ 10,000 Ovarian Cancer Research Fund $ 50,000 See Forever Foundation $ 10,000 Stockholm School Of Economics $ 135,000 The American Foundation for the University of British Columbia $ 25,000 The Criminal Justice Executive Institute $ 10,000 The Hasty Pudding Institute of 1770 $ 75,000 The Institute for Music & Brain Science $ 25,000 The Metropolitan Museum Of Art $ 2,500 The New School $ 7,000 Tribeca Film Institute $ 25,000 UJA - Federation of New York $ 50,000 WildAid, Inc. $ 50,000 Yeshiva Tifereth Moshe $ 25 000 Total $3,708,740 In addition, over the past several years the Foundation and its predecessor foundations have provided significant support to Harvard University's Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, which uses mathematics to study such subjects as evolutionary biology, viruses, and cancer. They have also funded, in part, the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University. The Foundation has also wholly sponsored and participated in scientific symposiums held in the U.S. Virgin Islands, enabling interaction among Nobel Laureates and faculty, postdoctoral researchers, graduate and undergraduate students, educators and the public. The sponsored symposiums include: • Artificial Intelligence Symposium held at the University of the Virgin Islands, on April 14-17, 2002. The symposium was open to UVI faculty and students majoring in computing science. The symposium pertained to various forms of artificial intelligence and included thirty of the top computing scientists from around the country. • Physics Symposium "Confronting Gravity" March 16-21, 2006 — The symposium dealt with the fields of Cosmology and Astrophysics and research toward the understanding of the universe. The symposium provided an interdisciplinary framework for interactions between five Nobel Laureates and faculty, postdoctoral researchers, graduate and undergraduate students, educators and the public. • Coping with Future Catastrophes December 9-12, 2011 - The symposium was organized by Dr. Marvin Minsky as a conference patterned after the book "Our Final Hour" by Martin Rees—about the future disasters that may arise in the face of growing populations, new technologies and new social network systems. 2 EFTA01119776  The Foundation continues to support the research of Nobel laureates at postdoctoral and graduate levels, and has provided substantial support to individual scientists, including but not limited to cognitive psychologists and scientists such as Marvin Minsky and Stephen Kosslyn, as well as Howard Gardner, a theoretical biologist. 3 EFTA01119777