In 2009, donor support allowed us to:

• Explore the practice of grateful living as a global ethic capable of ushering us peacefully into a new era in which we share the world's resources fairly and conserve the environment for future generations.
• Open our sixth annual Gathering in Gratefulness to the public, drawing 85 participants on the weekend of February 20-22, 2009 at the Institute for Noetic Studies in Petaluma, California.
• Offer our Art of Gratefulness retreat at Lifebridge Sanctuary north of NYC (May 30-31).
• Update our forum software to a new, more user-friendly version.
• Coordinate Br. David’s travels, wending through the Sahara, Central America, the United States, Australia, and Europe.
• Create an .mp4 version (iPod-and-iPhone compatible) version of “A Good Day” and fulfill scores of requests for DVD copies of the video.
• Complete major upgrades to our web-server, which improves page-loading times.  
• Add to Gratefulness.org a steady stream of new ecards, including a series of 12 new Helen Siegl woodblock prints.
• Run two series of book excerpts, from Felicia Norton and Charles Smith’s An Emerald Earth and Anne Scott’s Women, Wisdom, and Dreams.
• Follow Gratefulnews from a Muslim feminist in West Virginia to a lost aboriginal language revived, to hardhats going green, Wynton Marsalis on the hard-court, and dozens of other thought-provoking articles.
• Pass the 8,000,000 mark of candles lit; the 30,000 mark in newsletter subscribers; and the 18,000 mark in Word for the Day subscribers.
• Place in our Gift Shop a dynamic, 160-page gratitude journal awaiting your creative inspiration.
• Offer ten new, downloadable audio clips by Br. David on the topic of Wholeheartedness.
• Post a documentary film about Br. David’s life that includes interview footage shot at Mt. Saviour monastery and rare archival photos.