2012 Travelers Community Support

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1 2012 Travelers Community Support Highlights of our 2012 charitable giving and community support Travelers EDGE: Empowering Dreams for Graduation and Employment The objective of Travelers EDGE is to increase the number of underrepresented individuals who complete a bachelors degree and are prepared for a career at Travelers or within the IFS industry. In 2012, Travelers allotted nearly $2.4M to Travelers EDGE through the grants highlighted below and additional support. Augsburg College MN $82,000 Capital Community College CT $200,000 Central Connecticut State University CT $300,000 College Possible MN $95,000 Greater Hartford Consortium For Higher Education CT $100,000 Independent College Fund of Maryland MD $48,000 Inver Hills Community College MN $75,000 Metropolitan State University Foundation MN $253,000 Morgan State University MD $327,172 Page Education Foundation MN $76,500 University of Connecticut Foundation CT $565,650 University of Minnesota/The Carlson School of Management MN $256,000 OTHER CHARITABLE GIVING AND COMMUNITY SUPPORT The majority of our support is focused on education and distributed in Travelers' key cities of Hartford, Conn., and St. Paul, Minn. CONNECTICUT Education Funding Achieve Hartford! $200,000 Achievement First $50,000 Boys and Girls Clubs of Hartford $125,000 Capital Workforce Partners $45,000 Central Connecticut State University $50,000 The Children's Museum $40,000 Community Economic Development Fund Foundation $10,000 Compass Youth Collaborative $65,000 Connecticut Aeronautical Historical Association $10,000 Connecticut Pre-engineering Program $150,000 Connecticut Public Broadcasting $25,000 Discovery Center $25,000 Everybody Wins! Connecticut $70,000 Girl Scouts of Connecticut $60,000 Governor's Prevention Partnership $25,000 Greater Hartford Consortium For Higher Education $40,000 GreenShare Technology $44,124 Hartford Foundation for Public Giving $575,000 Hartford Jewish Federation $10,000 Hartford Police Department $125,000 Hartford Public Schools $280,000 Hartford Youth Scholars Foundation $40,000 Hearing Loss Association of America $1,000 Horizons National Student Enrichment Program $25,000 Junior Achievement of Southwest New England $75,000 Nutmeg Big Brothers-Big Sisters $10,000 1

2 New Haven Ecology Project $25,000 Our Piece of the Pie $82,500 Parent Academy $10,000 PARTNERS Foundation $100,000 Teach For America $100,000 Trinity College $25,000 University of Connecticut Foundation $7,969 University of Hartford $30,000 The Village for Families & Children $100,000 The WALKS Foundation $10,000 YMCA of Metropolitan Hartford $15,000 YWCA of The Hartford Region $10,000 Community Development Funding American Red Cross $200,000 Career Resources $50,000 Center for Urban Research Education and Training $15,000 Hartford Area Habitat for Humanity $150,000 Hartford Business Improvement District $50,000 Hartford Economic Development Corporation $50,000 Hartford Public Library $50,000 HomeFront $10,000 The Jordan Matthew Porco Memorial Foundation $500 Knox Parks Foundation $10,000 Leadership Greater Hartford $25,000 Local Initiatives Support Corp. $15,000 Mercy Housing and Shelter Corp. $50,000 Mutual Housing Association of Greater Hartford $25,000 Neighborhood Housing Services of New Haven $50,000 Rebuilding Together Hartford $25,000 Regional Youth Adult Substance Abuse Project $15,000 Southside Institutions Neighborhood Alliance $25,000 Third Sector New England (Duke University Purpose Project) $10,000 Travelers Championship $70,000 United Way of Central and Northeastern Connecticut $500,000 Upper Albany Main Street $50,000 Urban League of Greater Hartford $125,000 Arts & Culture Funding Antiquarian & Landmarks Society $25,000 Artists Collective $25,000 Charter Oak Cultural Center $25,000 Connecticut Forum $40,000 Goodspeed Opera House Foundation $25,000 Greater Hartford Arts Council $125,000 Harriet Beecher Stowe Center $25,000 Hartbeat Ensemble $35,000 Hartford Children's Theatre $10,000 Hartford Stage Company $125,000 Hartford Symphony Orchestra $25,000 Hill-Stead Museum $10,000 The Hole in the Wall Gang Camp $300,000 Horace Bushnell Memorial Hall $352,000 2

3 The Mark Twain House & Museum $25,000 Theaterworks $50,000 Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art $50,000 YMCA of Metropolitan Hartford $15,000 Community Sponsorships Achieve Hartford! $1,500 Almada Lodge Times Farm Camp $5,000 American Heart Association $10,000 American Red Cross $10,000 The Amistad Center for Art & Culture $5,000 Arthritis Foundation $2,000 Artists Collective $5,000 Aurora Women and Girls Foundation $2,500 Autism Society of Connecticut $250 Bike Walk Connecticut $5,000 Billings Forge Community Works $15,000 Boys and Girls Clubs of Hartford $47,000 BSL Educational Foundation $5,000 Bushnell Park Foundation $1,500 Business For Downtown Hartford $2,500 CAYASCO $1,500 Central Connecticut State University Foundation $875 Charter Oak Temple Restoration Corporation $10,000 The Children's Museum $10,000 Chrysalis Center $5,000 Community Farm of Simsbury $500 Community Foundation of Middlesex County $300 Connecticut Aeronautical Historical Association $5,000 Connecticut Appleseed Center for Law and Justice $10,000 Connecticut Ballet $2,500 Connecticut Forum $65,228 Connecticut Police Chiefs Association $1,200 Connecticut Science Center $550,000 Connecticut Veterans Fund $5,000 Corporation for Independent Living $5,000 Cystic Fibrosis Foundation $2,000 Dress for Success Hartford $7,500 Ethnic Marketing Solutions $5,000 Family Life Education $3,500 First Night Hartford $2,500 The Foundation For a Cure For Mitochondrial Disease $5,000 Governors Partnership to Protect Connecticut's Workforce $10,000 Greater Hartford Arts Council $2,800 Greater Hartford Convention & Visitors Bureau $5,000 Greater Hartford Festival Of Jazz $10,000 HARC $5,000 Habitat for Humanity International $2,500 Harriet Beecher Stowe Center $5,000 Hartford Business Improvement District $3,500 Hartford Children's Theatre $10,000 Hartford Communities That Care $2,500 3

4 Hartford Hospital $70,000 Hartford Marathon Foundation $10,000 Hartford Public Library $10,000 Hartford Publications $1,500 Hartford Stage Company $270,000 Hartford Symphony Orchestra $5,000 Hartford Youth Scholars Foundation $7,500 Hartford's Camp Courant $20,000 Hill-Stead Museum $5,000 The Hole in the Wall Gang Camp $50,000 Horace Bushnell Memorial Hall $20,000 House of Bread $2,500 Interval House $500 iquilt Partnership $25,000 Junior Achievement of Southwest New England $20,000 Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation $25,000 Knox Parks Foundation $2,500 Leadership Greater Hartford $37,250 The Mark Twain House & Museum $5,000 Mercy Housing and Shelter Corp. $5,000 MetroHartford Alliance $238,825 MI CASA Family Service & Educational Center $4,000 Middlesex County Chamber of Commerce $1,010 Mothers Against Drunk Driving $5,000 My Sisters' Place $10,000 National Association for the Advancement of Colored People $1,500 The National Conference For Community and Justice of Connecticut and Western Massachusetts $2,500 National Multiple Sclerosis Society $40,000 Northend Agent's $5,000 Nutmeg Big Brothers-Big Sisters $85,000 Organized Parents Make a Difference $2,000 Our Piece Of The Pie $7,500 Out Film CT $1,500 Real Art Ways $5,000 Rebuilding Together Hartford $3,000 Riverfront Recapture $100,000 Ron Foley Pancreatic Cancer Foundation $10,000 Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center Foundation $10,000 Saint Joseph College $10,000 Shelter For Women $10,000 Spanish American Merchants Association $5,000 Teach For America $10,000 United Way of the Capital Area $10,400 University of Connecticut Foundation $10,000 University of Hartford $10,000 Urban League of Greater Hartford $15,000 The Village for Families & Children $20,000 Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art $5,000 World Affairs Council of Connecticut $4,000 YMCA of Metropolitan Hartford $5,000 YWCA of The Hartford Region $15,000 4

5 MINNESOTA Education Funding The African American Registry $10,000 Amherst H. Wilder Foundation $25,000 Augsburg College $50,000 BestPrep $30,000 City of Saint Paul $125,000 College Possible $130,000 CommonBond Communities $45,000 Como Friends $15,000 Genesys Works - Twin Cities $15,000 Girl Scouts of Minnesota and Wisconsin River Valleys $25,000 Greater Frogtown Community Development Center $10,000 Growth & Justice $20,000 Inver Hills Community College $25,000 Junior Achievement of the Upper Midwest $20,000 MinnCAN - Minnesota Campaign for Achievement Now $20,000 Minnesota Campus Compact $10,000 Minnesota Children's Museum $40,000 Minnesota Computers for Schools $30,000 Minnesota Council on Economic Education $15,000 Minnesota Minority Education Partnership $35,000 Minnesota Office of Higher Education $15,000 Minnesota Private College Fund $25,000 Minnesota Zoo Foundation $10,000 Parents United for Public Schools $10,000 Saint Paul Public Schools $1,350,000 Saint Paul Public Schools Foundation $230,000 St. Olaf College $7,500 St. Paul Area Council of Churches $8,500 The Science Museum of Minnesota $240,000 United Negro College Fund $70,000 University of Minnesota Foundation $250,000 Wallin Education Partners $66,000 Wilderness Inquiry $20,000 William Mitchell College of Law $10,000 Community Development Funding American Cancer Society-MN Region $1,000 Community Reinvestment Fund $25,000 Feed My Starving Children $2,500 Greater Minneapolis Council of Churches $10,000 Habitat for Humanity - Twin Cities $100,000 Local Initiatives Support Corporation $75,000 Metropolitan Economic Development Association $45,000 Neighborhood Development Center $35,000 Project for Pride in Living $30,000 Rebuilding Together Twin Cities $15,000 Rondo Community Land Trust $10,000 The Saint Paul Foundation $250,000 5

6 Arts & Culture Funding The Children's Theatre Company $40,000 COMPAS $110,000 Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphonies $5,000 The Guthrie Theater Foundation $35,000 The History Theatre $15,000 The Minnesota Opera $20,000 Mixed Blood Theatre Company $15,000 Mu Performing Arts $7,500 Ordway Center for the Performing Arts $140,000 Park Square Theatre Company $15,000 Penumbra Theatre Company $35,000 Project SUCCESS $25,000 Public Art Saint Paul $15,000 Ramsey County Historical Society $7,500 The St. Paul Chamber Orchestra Society $35,000 SteppingStone Theatre $15,000 Community Sponsorships Arlo Sports (Minnesota Swarm) $1,700 The Children's Theatre Company $15,000 CommonBond Communities $5,000 The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library $12,500 The Guthrie Theater Foundation $10,000 Habitat for Humanity - Twin Cities $5,000 Junior Achievement of the Upper Midwest $3,500 Keys 4/4 Kids $2,000 Minnesota Boychoir $5,000 Minnesota Children's Museum $10,000 Minnesota Council on Foundations $2,000 Minnesota Film Arts $10,000 Minnesota Landmarks $5,000 Minnesota Museum of American Art $2,500 Minnesota Shubert Center for Dance and Music $7,500 Minnesota Zoo Foundation $5,000 Ordway Center for the Performing Arts $75,000 Penumbra Theatre Company $5,000 Project for Pride in Living $2,500 Project SUCCESS $5,000 Saint Paul Area Chamber of Commerce $70,000 Saint Paul Police Foundation $5,000 Saint Paul Public Schools $12,000 Saint Paul Public Schools Foundation $2,500 Saint Paul RiverCentre Convention & Visitors Authority Foundation $3,200 Saint Paul Riverfront Corporation $10,000 St. Paul Transportation Management $1,000 Twin Cities Hot Summer Jazz $5,000 Twin Cities Public Television $25,000 Twin Cities RISE $5,000 United Negro College Fund $5,000 Vote YES for Strong Schools $5,000 Wilderness Inquiry $7,500 6

7 Additional Giving Achieve DC $80,000 Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation NY $ 500 American Corporate Partners NY $50,000 The American Indian College Fund CO $75,000 The American Ireland Fund NY $25,000 American Red Cross of Long Island NY $200,000 Appeal of Conscience Foundation NY $10,000 Art Education for the Blind NY $25,000 Berwick Boys Foundation MA $ 2,500 Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship MA $70,000 Brooklyn Academy of Music NY $15,000 The Center for Discovery NY $10,000 Children's Storefront NY $32,500 The City College 21st Century Foundation NY $10,000 Citymeals-on-Wheels NY $25,000 CollegeBound Foundation MD $ 1,000 Council for Economic Education NY $10,000 The Council for The Opportunity in Education DC $15,000 Friends of Karen NY $1,000 Groundswell Community Mural Project NY $ 8,000 Habitat for Humanity International GA $100,000 Hans Christian Andersen Story Telling Center NY $ 7,500 Hispanic Scholarship Fund CA $65,000 Hofstra University NY $ 5,000 Hurricane Sandy New Jersey Relief Fund NJ $200,000 Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation CA $6,000 Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety FL $50,000 The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts VA $64,000 Juvenile Law Center PA $5,000 Legal Action Center NY $5,000 Legal Aid Society NY $50,000 Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts NY $25,000 Manhattan Legal Services NY $ 5,000 Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City NY $200,000 The Metropolitan Museum of Art NY $43,000 MoCADA NY $8,000 National Academy Foundation NY $275,000 The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia Univ. NY $200,000 National College Access Network DC $20,000 Northeastern Economic Developers Association RI $ 750 New Visions for Public Schools NY $ 36,000 New York City Center NY $50,000 New York Philharmonic NY $200,000 New York Restoration Project NY $10,000 Playwrights Horizons NY $10,000 The Posse Foundation NY $15,000 Pro Bono Partnership NY $ 5,000 Project Sunshine NY $ 2,000 Providence College RI $ 2,500 Seeds of Peace NY $15,000 Sesame Workshop NY $25,000 7

8 Sphinx Organization MI $20,000 St. Jude Children's Research Hospital MA $1,500 Tourette Syndrome Association NY $ 5,000 The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania PA $250,000 UJA Federation NY $ 8,500 Valley Economic Development Center CA $160,000 The Wharton Business School Club of New York NY $ 10,000 The William J. Clinton Foundation AR $ 5,000 Urban Arts Partnership NY $ 15,000 WNET NY $50,000 YMCA of Greater New York NY $ 7,500 Young People's Chorus of New York City NY $33,000 SUPPORTING COMMUNITIES NATIONWIDE THROUGH OUR EMPLOYEES' COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT Travelers provides support for communities based on our employees' involvement in their cities and towns. Travelers Community Connections (TCC) Grants are available to nonprofits partnering with teams of Travelers volunteers from offices throughout the U.S. (except Conn. and Minn.). In 2012, 34 organizations in 24 states received TCC grants. Travelers Community Connections Grants $653,575 In addition, funding for local organizations is provided through the Travelers Community Connections (TCC) Matching Gifts and Volunteer Match programs. The program gives employees the opportunity to apply for matches to eligible nonprofit organizations for employee donations of money or volunteer time. Through the TCC Matching Gifts program the company matches up to $500 of employee charitable contributions. Through the TCC Volunteer Match program an employee may apply for a $500 grant to an eligible nonprofit charitable organization when he or she volunteers 24 hours in a calendar year with that organization. Employee pledges made during our annual Employee Giving Campaign are eligible for the Travelers Community Connections Matching Gifts Program, bringing an additional $1 million to local nonprofit organizations. In 2012, more than 4,500 organizations in 49 states and the District of Columbia benefited from Travelers matching gifts. Travelers Community Connections Matching Gifts & Volunteer Match Programs* $1,813,811 Travelers employees are also encouraged to support their local communities through our annual Employee Giving Campaign. In 2012, Travelers and its employees throughout the U.S. gave approximately $4 million to local organizations. Employees participated through online pledging and fundraising events in their local offices. Employee pledges are eligible for the Travelers Community Connections Matching Gifts Program, bringing an additional $1 million* to local nonprofit organizations. Travelers Employee Giving Campaign: Employee Pledges, Fundraising Events & Travelers Corporate Giving* $4,021,483 * Matching gifts for the Employee Giving Campaign are included in the total for the Travelers Community Connections Matching Gifts Program. 8

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