Global Footprint Network Inc

“The ceo and interim cfo review a complete draft copy of the form 990 prior to filing. Revisions are made, if necessary, before a draft copy is made available to all members of the board of directors for additional review.”

“Board members are required to actively disclose conflicts of interest to the unaffected board members as soon as they arise. If a board member fails to resolve a conflict of interest, the chairperson is empowered to take appropriate action.”

“Salaries for all employees, including officers and key individuals, are determined based on comparable rates established via compensation studies and are included in the annual budget, which is approved by the board of directors. The compensation packages for the ceo and president are reviewed annually by the board of directors.”

“The organization makes it's governing documents and conflict of interest policy available upon request. The audited financial statements and the form 990 are available on the organization's website (www.footprintnetwork.org) and upon request. The form 990 is also available on the guidestar website.”

“The governing documents (articles of incorporation, bylaws) and conflict of interest policy of the organization that are subject to the federal (or state) public disclosure rules, will be made publicly available as applicable law may require. Otherwise, the governing documents and conflict of interest policy will be provided to the public, at the discretion of management.”

“Programs & outreach - global footprint network advances novel applications of the ecological footprint through various projects including city footprint assessments, country studies and investment appraisals. We also support cities, regions, countries, businesses and other institutions by applying the ecological footprint methodology to aid in decision making and risk analysis. Outreach/communications - in order to make footprint calculations relevant and empowering for any user, we communicate the results in creative and engaging ways: *a key entry point for our communications efforts is our popular ecological footprint calculator, (http://www.footprintcalculator.org/). The footprint calculator is one of the most powerful sustainability education tools in the world, attracting more than 5.1 million users in 2024. *annual earth overshoot day media campaign (https://www.overshootday.org/) every year since 2006, global footprint network has been marking earth overshoot day: the date when humanity has exhausted the planet's ecological budget for the whole year. This year 97 countries covered earth overshoot day, which fell on august 2, 2024. In 2024, we have documented over 6,400 news stories in over 120 countries, leading to over 7 billion media impressions from 5,007 websites. *we published our annual national footprint accounts, which contains ecological footprint and bio-capacity results of nearly every country since 1961, under a creative commons license so it can be free and accessible to all people. This open data platform is called ecological footprint explorer http://data.footprintnetwork.org/#/ *we are working with york university in toronto and have established an independent international not-for-profit that can maintain and improve the national footprint and biocapacity accounts. This makes the results more trusted and more broadly accepted. The website for this venture is www.fodafo.org *we help build a carbon sequestration business: www.replanet.org.uk”

“Technical services: program service expenses 11,230. Management and general expenses 0. Fundraising expenses 0. Total expenses 11,230. Communications: program service expenses 6,527. Management and general expenses 0. Fundraising expenses 0. Total expenses 6,527.”

“No changes to the process have been made since the prior year.”

“Their board is controlled by current and former global footprint network trustees, directors, officers and key employees.”