The Fund generally invests at least 80% of its total assets in the component securities of the Global Hope Index. Inspire Investing, LLC (the “Adviser” or “Index Provider”), the Fund’s index provider (and also the Fund’s investment adviser) selects foreign (including emerging markets) and domestic equity securities from a global universe of publicly traded equity securities of large capitalization companies and which have an Inspire Impact Score™ of zero or higher. The Adviser defines large capitalization companies to be those that are the largest 10% of the global equity market.

The Inspire Impact Score™ is a proprietary selection methodology that is designed to assign a score to a particular security based on the security’s alignment with biblical values and the positive impact the issuing company has on the world. Utilizing specifically identified, publicly available and/or third-party sources, the Inspire Impact Score™ methodology endeavors to assign negative scores to and exclude companies from the investment universe if they are found in violation of specified categories that do not align with biblical values and seeks to assign positive scores to companies which the Adviser has not found to be in violation of the specified exclusionary categories.

It is not possible for the Adviser to be aware of every action a company takes, and there may be additional positive or problematic activities which a company engages in that are beyond what is included in the Inspire Impact Score™ calculation. The Inspire Impact Score™ is not meant to include all activities, whether public or private, of each company scored, but rather to assign a score to companies based on the data the Adviser has found from the specified publicly available sources and/or third-party data providers. The Inspire Impact Score™ represents the Adviser’s viewpoint on the biblical alignment of scored investments, and other investors may have different opinions about what should or should not be considered a violation. The Adviser seeks to update Inspire Impact Scores™ in a timely fashion at regular intervals, but due to differences in research schedules, corporate engagement efforts and data publication timing, a company’s Inspire Impact Score™ may not immediately reflect all known data as soon as it is researched.

The specific exclusionary categories deemed to not be in alignment with biblical values and which the Inspire Impact Score™ seeks to assign negative scores and exclude from the investment universe are as follows:

In addition to excluding companies involved in the preceding categories, the Adviser also excludes investment from companies engaged in the following categories, though they do not constitute a negative Inspire Impact Score™:

The specific biblical alignment categories, for which the Inspire Impact Score™ seeks to assign positive scores (to companies not found to be in violation of the previously mentioned exclusionary categories), are listed below. FactSet provides the data for each category.

The Index Provider uses software that analyzes publicly available data relating to the primary business activities, products and services, philanthropy, legal activities, policies and practices when assigning Inspire Impact Scores™ to a company. The 400 securities with the highest Inspire Impact Scores™ are included in the Global Hope Index and are equally weighted. The Global Hope Index is typically comprised of 50% domestic securities, 40% in developed foreign securities, and 10% in emerging market securities. The Inspire Impact Scores™ of the securities in the Global Hope Index are reviewed periodically (at least annually), and the Index is rebalanced quarterly. If, upon review, the Inspire Impact Score™ of a security falls below an acceptable level, the security is removed from the Global Hope Index and replaced with a higher scoring security. A security with a score of zero—indicating that the issuer has no violations to merit a negative score, but there is insufficient data to assess a positive score—may be included in the Global Hope Index.

The equity securities included in the Index are typically foreign and domestic equity securities of large capitalization companies. Under normal market conditions, the Fund will invest at least 40% of its net assets in securities of companies in at least 3 countries outside the U.S.

The Fund may or may not hold all of the securities in the Global Hope Index because, in certain circumstances, it may not be possible or practicable to purchase all of the securities in the Global Hope Index in their proportionate weightings. In that case, the Adviser may purchase a sample of the securities in the Global Hope Index to track the Global Hope Index. “Representative sampling” is an indexing strategy that involves investing in a representative sample of securities that collectively has an investment profile similar to that of an applicable underlying index. The securities selected are expected to have, in the aggregate, investment characteristics, fundamental characteristics and liquidity measures similar to those of the underlying index. The Fund may concentrate its investments in a particular industry or group of industries to the extent that the Global Hope Index concentrates in an industry or group of industries.