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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