Friends of Erowid,

WHO DO YOU KNOW?
WHO WANTS TO HELP CHANGE THE WORLD?

Erowid Center is entering a critical period of seeking major new
funders to make up a $60,000 budget shortfall, at a time when our
site requires considerable infrastructure upgrades in order to
continue providing top quality information about psychoactive drugs.
We're excited to have received one new $5,000 grant, and we've had
discussions with other possible funders. But we continue to need
your help in locating potential donors or foundations that support
cutting-edge efforts to break through the educational and harm
reduction gridlock created by prohibitionist regulations.

With 40% of Erowid's members outside of the USA and 30% of our
traffic coming from non-U.S. addresses, our small non-profit has
global impact, influencing information accessibility and public
policy from the United States to Australia, Europe and beyond.

Erowid's primary mission is educational, providing information
about recreational drugs in order to improve health and build the
groundwork necessary for societal reform. We work with you, our
visitors and contributors, as part of a global community, exploring
new information while preserving and archiving existing resources.
We are not an advocacy organization. Erowid acts directly--this
year, this month, today--to foster the cultural changes that are
necessary, given the increasing availability of psychoactive
substances and technologies.

Erowid has over a decade-and-a-half of success in bringing together
doctors, lawyers, parents, and young people, allowing them to share a
reviewed, refereed, high-quality source of information. This global
community of Erowid users now has the opportunity to build on that
success and help ensure that a balanced, non-judgmental, visionary
voice continues to be heard within the dialog regarding shifts in
policy, research, education, and recreational drug use.

We need to locate previously untapped sources of non-advertising
funding, especially in the $5,000 to $50,000 per year range. Please
bear with us as we search for these crucial new funders over the next
few months. We appreciate any assistance that you can provide in our
quest. Contact us at donations@erowid.org with leads or suggestions.

Earth & Fire,
Co-founders, Erowid Center