Hi, friend. My name is Sammi Sluder. I'm an environmentalist, a climate voter, and a team member at the League of Conservation Voters. Here's why I decided to divest my money and become an Aspiration customer.

Like any good Midwesterner, I grew up not talking a lot about money. I also never thought about what happened to my money after I put it in the bank. In high school, my dad took me to open my first account at Chase. I had no idea that my deposit would be going to fund pipelines and offshore drilling, and I wouldn't find that out until many years — and many dollars — later.

After graduating from college and living through the 2016 election, I grew a lot more concerned about the climate crisis and environmental racism. I became an environmental advocate and joined the team at LCV in 2017.

Although I was calling for public divestment from fossil fuels and pushing for candidates to pledge to not take money from Big Oil, I still wasn't thinking about my own money. Direct deposits were dropping into my Bank of America account while they invested billions into the fossil fuel industry.¹

Thankfully, I woke up to the terrible reality of the banking industry and decided to get my money out. That's why I switched to Aspiration, a financial institution that refuses to align with Big Oil, Dirty Coal and other polluters.

With Aspiration, my deposits don't fund pipelines or oil drilling. Join me and open a Spend & Save account today »

With Aspiration, I can live my values and reach my financial goals. They are a member of 1% for the Planet, a certified B corporation (which means they are legally required to consider the impact of their decisions on the environment), and they give 10% of their profits to charity. Plus they offer special programs where I can plant a tree every time I make a purchase and offset CO2 emissions from driving (if I ever get a car).

Starting a Spend & Save cash management account with Aspiration wasn't just a moral choice for me — it was a smart financial one also. I earn up to 1.00% APY on my Save Account, and I get up to 10% cash back at mission-aligned merchants. While I was getting charged up to $25 a month before, I now get to choose what I pay (even $0)! Plus, everything is done online with Aspiration so it's easy to manage my money while staying at home.

Opening an account with Aspiration was one of the best and easiest steps I've taken to go green. You can join me and make a positive impact on the planet by opening a Spend & Save account with Aspiration.

Sammi Sluder
Associate Member Programs Manager
League of Conservation Voters

P.S. Got questions? Just reply to this email, and I'd be happy to respond.

This testimonial may not be representative of the experience of other customers and does not guarantee future performance or success.
¹ Banking on Climate Change: Fossil Fuel Finance Report 2020, by Rainforest Action Network, BankTrack, Sierra Club, Oil Change International, Indigenous Environmental Network and Reclaim Finance.
The Aspiration Spend & Save Account is a cash management account offered by Aspiration Financial, LLC, a broker dealer, not a chartered bank. Deposits in your Aspiration account are FDIC Insured* up to $2 million per depositor by being swept up to FDIC Member institutions.
Switching to Aspiration could mean saving up to $400 or more per year, based on interest earnings on the US household median bank balance from the Federal Reserve's Survey of Consumer Finances and the difference between Aspiration's 1.00% APY and 0.03% APY interest checking account APY average at the US's largest banks reported as of 2/11/19: Wells Fargo (0.01% APY), Chase Bank (0.01% APY) and Bank of America (0.06% APY with "Preferred booster"); the average checking account monthly fee reported on 2/11/19 by Wells Fargo, Chase Bank and Bank of America; average out of network ATM fee expenses derived from ATM withdrawal data in the 2019 Federal Reserve Payments Study and banked household data from the 2017 FDIC National Survey of Banked and Underbanked Households; and overdraft fee averages estimated in a Nerdwallet Analysis of 2014 CFPB data.