Global Footprint Network Inc.

“Susan burns, founder/director of finance for change, is married to mathis wackernagel, founder/ceo.”

“Per the bylaws, mathis wackernagel and susan burns have the authority to each appoint 2 members to the board of directors.”

“The founder/ceo and accounting manager review the form 990 prior to filing, before they provide a complete copy of the 990 to all members of the board for approval.”

“The conflict of interest policy is distributed to board members and all members of the governing body. Potential conflicts of interest would be discussed at this time.”

“Salaries for all employees, including officers and key individuals, is determined based on comparable rates as determined via compensation sutdies and are included in the budget. The ceo, president and highest paid indiviuals are reviewed annually by the compesation committee.”

“The organization makes it's governing documents, conflict of interest policy and financial statements available upon request of an individual or organization. The form 990 is 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 public disclosure rules (or state public disclosure rules), these documents 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.”

“Research - global footprint network is known for having developed the ecological footprint, the only integrated sustainability tool in the world that addresses the closely interconnected challenges of climate change and natural resource constraints in a single, easy to understand metric. No other resource accounting system exists worldwide that can compare human resource demand to what the planet's ecosystem can renew in a scalable way, from the individual to the city to the global level. Our national footprint accounts, contain ecological footprint and bio-capacity data for nearly every country since 1961 and this core data is drawn from un data sources. Some 2,000 universities around the world have downloaded ecological footprint data for research, articles and books. Global footprint network's data and graphs are citied in virtually every sustainability report, as the data is used to tell a story and to demonstrate collective trends and variations around nations/regions.”

“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 one of the most powerful sustainability education tools in the world, attracting more than 2.4 million users in 2017. *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. In 2017, there were almost 2,000 webpage mentions in 104 countries, resulting in 1.3+ billion media impressions, including front page coverage in france in the leading newspapers. *in 2016, we published our national footprint accounts, which contains ecological footprint and bio-capacity 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/#/”

“Technical services: program service expenses 157,218. Management and general expenses 4,412. Fundraising expenses 12,396. Total expenses 174,026. It consulting: program service expenses 39,517. Management and general expenses 9,955. Fundraising expenses 8,997. Total expenses 58,469. Communications: program service expenses 39,341. Management and general expenses 0. Fundraising expenses 70. Total expenses 39,411.”

“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.”