Global Footprint Network Inc.

“Susan burns, founder/board member, is married to mathis wackernagel, founder/board member/president/interim ceo. Susan burns left the board in june 2023. Mathis wackernagel stepped down from being president in july 2023.”

“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 chariperson as soon as they arise. If a board member fails to resolve a conflict of interest, the remaiing board is empowered to take appropriate acction.”

“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.”

“Research - global footprint network and its staff are known for having developed the ecological footprint, the only accounting system in the world that comprehensively compares overall human demand on nature with what our planet, or each region's ecosystems can renew. It summarizes the results in a single, easy to understand metric: number of earths used. This resource accounting system can be applied, from the individual to the city to the global level. Our national footprint accounts, now managed via www.fodafo.org with global footprint network's participation, produce ecological footprint and bio-capacity data for nearly every country since 1961 and this core data is drawn from united nations data sources. Global footprint network publishes those results on its data platform which is visited by more than 500,000 researchers every year. 1000s of university resaerchers and policy analysts from around the world have downloaded ecological footprint data for research, articles and books from our website. 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. Our earth overshoot day is known around the world, and has generated since 2020 over 9 billion media impressions per year, up from about 4 billion in the 5 years prior.”

“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 million users per year. *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, over 90 countries covered earth overshoot day, which fell on august 2, 2023. In 2023, we have documented over 6,300 news stories leading to over 10 billion media impressions. *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 an eclogical restoration business that is also producing biodiversity and coarbon credits: www.replanet.org.uk”

“Technical services: program service expenses 2,500. Management and general expenses 0. Fundraising expenses 0. Total expenses 2,500. It consulting: program service expenses 45,778. Management and general expenses 9,050. Fundraising expenses 0. Total expenses 54,828. Communications: program service expenses 21,555. Management and general expenses 4,942. Fundraising expenses 0. Total expenses 26,497. Human resources: program service expenses 1,362. Management and general expenses 0. Fundraising expenses 0. Total expenses 1,362.”

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

“Their board is controlled by current global footprint network trustees.”