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Our continued success relies on a shared commitment to achieving results and acting responsibly. We encourage everyone at GID to remain accountable for delivering against our goals, prioritizing responsible investments decisions and remaining transparent and honest about our progress.

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Our Responsible Investments Structure

Our Executive Committee is focused on putting our residents, tenants, associates, and investors first in everything we do, and is supported by a Responsible Investments Committee. This committee brings together representatives from across the company, ensuring a range of perspectives are represented. We have a dedicated four-person Responsible Investments Team, supported by consultants to lead efficiency projects, engage with our investors, ensure compliance with regulations, deliver transparent reporting, and strengthen stakeholder engagement across our portfolio.

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Our Responsible Investments Policies and Guidelines

Our commitment to a sustainable future is communicated across both GID and Windsor Communities®. To ensure our strategy remains consistent across the company, we have established a comprehensive set of policies and guidelines. This suite of documents and procedures enables us to create a resilient, sustainable, and coordinated platform from which to operate.

A light-colored interior with seating area, prominent pool table and other games, with large windows letting the light in — Windsor Meridian, Englewood, Colorado

Our Culture of Compliance

We are deeply committed to embedding accountability into our everyday work, with every team member playing a role in ensuring we meet the necessary internal and external standards. We enforce this through our Code of Professional Conduct, which we expect all GID associates to uphold.

This code is supported by our suite of tools and training, as well as our compliance framework, comprising 33 separate committees that manage the unique compliance requirements of different GID teams and functions.

Through our ethics hotline and web-based reporting form, associates can confidentially report compliance concerns or suspected wrongdoing. Our Anti-Retaliation Policy ensures reporting is encouraged without fear of repercussions.

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Stakeholder and Investor Relations

Through regular engagement with stakeholders, we prioritize outcomes that benefit our business, associates, residents, and tenants.

Our investors are actively engaged in our sustainability performance and progress. Through regular updates and open communication, we ensure stakeholders are updated on our sustainability strategies, goals, and progress. This approach helps build trust and transparency, which are essential to our financial performance and long-term success.

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Industry Participation

GID is committed to collaborating with industry organizations and maintaining partnerships that support our Responsible Investments strategy.

We have maintained our status as an active member of the Urban Land Institute’s Greenprint Performance Committee and Multifamily, Industrial, and Sustainable Finance Disclosures Regulation (SFDR) subcommittees. We also continue to engage closely with the Pension Real Estate Association, the National Multifamily Housing Council (NMHC), the U.S. Green Building Council, the National Association for Industrial and Office Parks, and the Institute of Real Estate Management (IREM).

In 2024, a member of our Responsible Investments Team Jeffrey Palmer earned his GRESB Accredited Professional (AP) Team Leader designation. Jeffrey was one of the first 100 globally to earn this accreditation, helping drive our best-in-class sustainable practices. He was also a panelist at IMN’s third Annual environmental, social, and governance (ESG) and Decarbonization Forum in Nashville, Tennessee where he was joined by peers to discuss Building Performance Standards (BPS) and local and state-level transition risks.

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Neither GID nor the clients it manages are considered to be environmental, social, and governance (ESG)-focused. Notwithstanding the foregoing, as determined appropriate and in its sole discretion, GID takes certain ESG-considerations into account in the selection, management and investment decisions related to portfolio investments; however, the type of considerations and the weight given to such considerations may vary from investment to investment and remain subject to GID’s discretion, fund investment objectives/constraints, and any underlying fiduciary duties. Any discussion of ESG issues or results contained in this presentation is subject to the foregoing limitations.