2026-06-10T10:51:20-07:00 2025-06-30 990EZ 2024-07-01 611148736 FOUNDATION FOR GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY INC FOUN 8658004440 PO Box 1101 Knoxville TN 379011101 Wolf Naegeli President 8655844806 2026-05-26 1 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z X https://GetSustainableNow.org X X 98284 X 98023 0 0 261 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 98284 0 0 0 60888 0 188 1878 62954 35330 69081 960 105371 X 47740 29959 0 75222 21341 190 69081 105371 0 0 69081 105371 The Foundation for Global Sustainability (FGS) works to restore balance between human activities and Earth's natural life support systems. It monitors environmental and social justice issues in Southern Appalachia. It represents its supporters and those who are concerned about developments that degrade ecosystem processes and the quality of life for ordinary citizens in public hearings and through comments on environmental impact statements. FGS cooperates with local, national and international organizations to promote planetary solidarity with Mother Earth and ALL its life forms to implement the Sustainable Development Goals. At HellbenderPress.org website, FGS increases public awareness of opportunities to reduce environmental damages, make businesses and institutions more sustainable, build resilient communities and adopt life styles that will preclude Earth's living conditions from deteriorating to an inhospitable level for future generations over centuries if not millennia. 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. 79302 76972 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 Reporting; and Series-Package-Project Writing. Two of the judges drew parallels with news coverage of other historic events. "I was on the news desk of The Oklahoman in 1995 after the Murrah federal building attack. The Oklahoman perhaps created the textbook on how to interview victims in a mass casualty event. Here, the Hellbender Press - whether they knew it or not - followed the Oklahoman's victim coverage and delivered exemplary stories of people affected by impact and by the fatalities of families and friends. I know. I was there. Hellbender Press reported on the how and why of a mass flooding disaster ... outstanding. Reporting on the victims of the Appalachian flooding was exemplary. Well done, journalists!" "Hellbender Press, apparently a normal environmental news and information website, was transformed into a severe weather and flooding news reporting operation with quick efficiency that has to be envied by Oklahoma news outlets that face quickly developing weather news on a yearly basis every spring," said another judge. "The environmental writers of Hellbender Press posted stories, photos, graphics and maps as the flooding quickly developed. Hellbender Press showed how to cover fast breaking weather storms and apparently without the expertise of news outlets in tornado alley, including Oklahoma. An excellent achievement!" 17750 38207 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 and engage! -- Hellbender Press is providing background information on local and regional issues. It emphasizes their implications for ecosystems and the global commons and highlights sustainable solutions. -- We also work with the University of Tennessee, other academic institutions and high schools to build a foundation for environmental journalism in East Tennessee. Interns get editorial advisement and opportunities to contribute stories that help them start a journalism career and get clips for their portfolio. They may even find an occasion to boost scholarly research and earn a shared professional byline. Four students participated in completing vignettes as part of a years long cooperation with the environmental journalism class of Dr Mark Littman, School of Journalism and Media, at UT Knoxville. Ivy Zhang, a college bound honors student, considered her experience working with the Hellbender a bonus on her applications. Recent marketing graduate Robert Norris approached Hellbender for substantive bylines to further his career and the popularity of his "Maryville College Podcast." Keenan Thomas, a recent graduate of the UT journalism school, reached out to Hellbender to further his writing career. He ultimately went on to become a staff writer at the Knoxville News Sentinel. To read examples of their stories, go to hellbenderpress.org/search and enter Ivy Zhang, Robert Norris, Carly Broady, Keenan Thomas, Elan Young or 'vignette,' then press the Return key. 1001 1080 116259 Wolf Naegeli President 8 0 0 0 Amadou Sall Vice President 1 0 0 0 Lauren Parker Treasurer 1 0 0 0 David Rick Vaughan Secretary 1 0 0 0 Stephen Smith Chair of the Board 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 TN Wolf Naegeli PO Box 1101 Knoxville TN 379011101 8658004440 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 NONE NONE 1 X 175630 193717 645 1150 98023 469165 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 175630 193717 645 1150 98023 469165 0 469165 596 16 335 150 261 1358 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 470523 0 0.99711 0.99630 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 16 Description;Amount^Program advertising;317|Information Technology software subscriptions;1187|Program travel;121|Bank service and online donation processor charges;33|Depreciation and amortization;220^Total;1878^ Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 20 Description;Amount^GCBLX mutual fund change in market value;960^Total;960^ Form 990-EZ, Part II, Line 22 For Tax Year 2023 $44,733 was incorrect because after several crashes of Quickbooks Desktop for Macintosh, the Verify Data Utility always reported, No problems have been detected in your QuickBooks data. I failed to notice, firstly that several payments at various times were duplicated for a total of $3,573.45. Thus the total for checking was too low by that amount, and scondly that a similar issue had occurred in the Mutual Funds accounts. It must have happened just after I started to enter information from the statement of the Irene Dickinson Internship Fund which showed an increase by $565.86. The crash probably happened right when I entered that amount. When I pulled the 1052 account up again to enter the detailed breakdown for reinvested dividends, etc., I would not have seen that said total addition had been moved to the 1050 Mutual Funds mother account. Together these mishaps lowered the total for field 22 by $3573.45 and increased it by $565.86 resulting in a net difference of $3007.59. Therefore the total for 2023 should have been reported as $44,741. Form 990-EZ, Part II, Line 24 For 2023 the amount reported on the 2023 tax return should have been $21,341, because a Prepaid writer compensation of $700 from the 2022 tax period was actually paid out early in 2024, but inadvertently not deducted from the Prepaid account which therefore should no loger have been show as prepaid. For 2024 Book value of capital equipment is $190 Form 990-EZ, Part II, Line 26 In our 2024 990-EZ we showed $75 of payable writer compensation by mistake. The writer had actually been paid early in that tax period, but inadvertently that was charged to current year expenses instead of deducted from the prepaid account. The late filing is due to unforeseen circumstances. The Board of Directors will redouble its efforts to move accounting to a more reliable platform.