Dear Green American,

Green America is pleased to share the following from Green Century Capital Management, a member of Green America’s Green Business Network, which offers one of the first families of fossil fuel free mutual funds. Green Century has more than 30 years of experience in environmentally responsible investing and helps people align their values and make an impact while saving for the future. I invite you to learn more about Green Century and their mutual funds below.

Are you saving for your future with a mutual fund or an IRA (Individual Retirement Account)?

• Do your saving options align with your values and keep your money out of coal, oil and gas companies?

• Or, like so many investments, does it invest in companies that are harming the environment, including the fossil fuel companies that have driven climate change?

A sustainable investment strategy that incorporates environmental, social and governance criteria may result in lower or higher returns than an investment strategy that does not include such criteria.

Starting this year, you can join the thousands of individuals and institutions who have stopped investing in environmentally harmful industries, such as tobacco, nuclear weapons, and dirty energy. Instead, explore Green Century’s resources and investment options that have the environment in mind.

Receive our free guide to fossil fuel free investing.

Green Century's approach gives you an opportunity to make an environmental impact with our distinctive sustainable investment strategy. For more than three decades, Green Century has helped people save for their future without compromising their values by:

• Avoiding environmentally harmful corporations while investing in green bonds

• Leading an award-winning shareholder advocacy program to reduce plastic pollution, promote clean energy, and protect tropical forests, and

• Supporting the environmental and public health non-profit organizations that founded us in 1991.

Let me give you an example of our work. Plastic pollution into the oceans has doubled every six years for the past two decades. Given this crisis, Green Century’s shareholder advocates have identified companies that are responsible for plastic pollution and convinced them to change their practices and policies. This has included cutting single use plastics by switching to reusable containers, avoiding plastics packaging and other solutions.

You can learn more about our advocacy on this issue with Costco*, Disney* and Choice Hotels* in this Grist Article “Under pressure from activist investors, big brands agree to report and reduce plastics use”.

To learn more about fossil fuel free investing, download our free guide.

We are here to help you curb climate change, reduce plastics in our environment, halt new investments in fossil fuel infrastructure, and promote clean and renewable energy. We are here to help you curb climate change, reduce plastics in our environment, halt new investments in fossil fuel infrastructure, and promote clean and renewable energy.

It has never been more important to align your values with your investments. Thank you for your interest in Green Century.

Sincerely,

..................

Leslie Samuelrich
President
Green Century Funds

Green Century Capital Management, Inc. (Green Century) is the investment advisor to the Green Century Funds (the Funds).

The Green Century Funds are a family of fossil fuel-free, environmentally responsible mutual funds. Green Century Capital Management hosts an award-winning and in-house shareholder advocacy program and is the only mutual fund company in the U.S. wholly owned by environmental and public health nonprofit organizations.

*As of March 31, 2024, Costco Wholesale Corporation comprised 1.19%, 0.00%, and 0.14%; The Walt Disney Company comprised 0.00%, 0.96% and 0.00% and Choice Hotels International, Inc. Comprised 0.00%, 0.02% and 0.00% of the Green Century Balanced Fund, the Green Century Equity Fund, and the Green Century International Index Fund respectively. As of the same date, other securities mentioned were not held in the portfolios of any of the Green Century Funds. References to specific securities, which will change due to ongoing management of the Funds, should not be construed as a recommendation by the Funds, their administrator, or their distributor.

You should carefully consider the Fund’s investment objectives, risks, charges, and expenses before investing. To obtain a Prospectus that contains this and other information about the Funds please visit www.greencentury.com, email [email protected], or call 1-800-934-7336. Please read the Prospectus carefully before investing.

Stocks will fluctuate in response to factors that may affect a single company, industry, sector, country, region or the market as a whole and may perform worse than the market. Foreign securities are subject to additional risks such as currency fluctuations, regional economic and political conditions, differences in accounting methods, and other unique risks compared to investing in securities of U.S. issuers. Bonds are subject to a variety of risks including interest rate, credit, and inflation risk. A sustainable investment strategy which incorporates environmental, social and governance criteria may result in lower or higher returns than an investment strategy that does not include such criteria.

This information has been prepared from sources believed reliable. The views expressed are as the date of this writing and are those of the Advisor to the Funds.

The Green Century Funds are distributed by UMB Distribution Services, LLC. 5/24. UMB and Green Century are not affiliated.

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