FOUNDATION FOR GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY INC

Programs

1. The Foundation for Global Sustainability took last-minute action to prevent the imminent sale of a narrow, 4,000-feet-long strip of land that serves as an urban wildlife corridor near busy Middlebrook Pike in Knoxville, Tennessee. It would almost certainly have been subdivided and fenced off into multiple pieces, likely to include extra parking spaces, utility sheds or container storage for a variety of adjacent warehouses and businesses. The corridor provides connectivity for species that could not traverse this highly developed urban area. It also contributes a substantial portion of the total mature tree canopy in this section of the city. The action received much support from wildlife enthusiast and neighborhood residents.

   $76,972 spentof which $79,302 as grants
   66% of program spending

2. Hellbender Press continued its tradition of excellence in journalism in 2024 with award-winning coverage of the unprecedented disaster spawned by Tropical Storm Helene in the Southern Appalachians. Starting on September 27, 2024 Hellbender Press coverage of the storm provided practical information on relief and aid supplies, and personal and overarching accounts of the epic disaster. Stories were told via on-scene reporting, video and photography, and traditional and digital reporting methods by Editor and Publisher Thomas Fraser and writers and reporters Stambaugh, Wolf Naegeli and Paige Penland. The coverage ranged from Hartford to Hot Springs and Erwin, where multiple workers at a plastics facility died, and included multiple interviews with people who had helped victims, who had barely escaped with their lives, or both. Follow-up reporting included a look at the role climate change played in the disaster. Hellbender Press ultimately reported from three watersheds: The French Broad; the Pigeon; and the Nolichucky. This effort received three first-place awards in the digital-only category, all related to Helene - Hurricane Helene Breaking Coverage; Deadline-Breaking News…

   $38,207 spentof which $17,750 as grants
   33% of program spending

3. PLANETARY SOLIDARITY: FGS is building a regional portal and model program to support community members in developing strong individual and cooperative initiatives to adopt more sustainable and resilient ways of consumption, production, operation, interaction, and exchange. Initiatives may range from the personal to the global level. Our actions are focused on local or bioregional IMPLEMENTATION, yet not without a clear awareness and idea of how each initiative will contribute to the solution of a concerning planetary problem. By following the "Think Globally, Act Locally" ethos of solidarity with Mother Earth, all people and all other forms of life, participants can identify immediate, practical, locally adapted opportunities to achieve more effective improvements than governmental mandates could and would. -- For decades, concerned citizens have demanded that governments take action to avert global environmental catastrophe. With every day it becomes clearer how we are already engulfed by it and that its severity is ever accelerating. It is high time for everyone to do their best by themselves as well as with their family, neighbors, coworkers and everyone else they can motivate…

   $1,080 spentof which $1,001 as grants
   1% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $116,259.