Board Chair of Global Footprint Network,

Your support has helped us accomplish many great things over the past decade. Here are a few highlights:

• The Ecological Footprint method – in widespread use by national and regional governments, corporations, and NGOs – has contributed to an on-going paradigm shift in managing environmental assets.
• Over a million people every year use our Ecological Footprint calculator to measure their personal Footprint.
• Our annual Earth Overshoot Day campaign is educating the public about our planet’s ecological limits. More than 200 million people on the internet alone learned about the Earth’s annual limits during Earth Overshoot Day 2013.
• Our researchers calculate the Ecological Footprint and biocapacity for 234 countries every year, using 6,000 data points for each country in our National Footprint Accounts. This data set serves as the basis for the myriad Ecological Footprint analyses conducted at all scales all over the world.
• Eleven nations have officially adopted the Ecological Footprint – with more on the way.

We need your help to take our work even further.

National governments, international agencies like the United Nations, states, regions and the business community are seeking our advice and decision making tools as we grapple with an uncertain future on this planet. The risks of damaging or depleting our planet’s natural resources are becoming increasingly clear.

It has never been easier for you to help make a difference.

Our partners at the Skoll Foundation and Huffington Post have launched a crowd funding challenge that highlights our award-winning social entrepreneurship. When you give to us online through this campaign until November 22, your donation makes us eligible for a matching gift. And you also increase our visibility among important stakeholders around the world. So please click the link to give as much as you can. And share our campaign with others in your social networks so that your friends and family can learn about the work you are supporting.

Of course, you can also continue to donate securely online. When you donate $50 or more annually, you are automatically enrolled as a “Friend of Global Footprint Network,” and included in our most important events, announcements, and progress reports.

With your support, our impact can be even greater in 2014.

Having you on our team makes our exciting and important work a tangible reality throughout the world. We are grateful to have earned your continued trust and commitment to our vision.

With warmest regards,

Terry Vogt Chair, Board of Directors

P.S. Your support today will help us accelerate the shift towards a sustainable economy.