In 2005, donor support enabled us to:

• Post our first lecture clips online.  Visitors enjoy talks on peak experiences, the Buddha's flower sermon, a rabbi's ecstasy, meaning in crisis, and much more.
  
• Create a German homepage, www.dankbarkeit.org, which offers links to the four features currently in German:  Eine Kerze Anzünden (Candles), Stundenengel (Angels of the Hours), Texte (readings), and E-Karten (e-cards).  German publicity offers us much potential for expansion.
  
• Provide Swedish and Danish translations of “Light a Candle,” bringing more than 4,500 new visitors to our site.
  
• Complete a comprehensive evaluation of how ANGeL operates and develop a structure to effect a smooth transition into the future.
  
• Present “Light Up the World,” a spinning globe that spotlights thousands of groups worldwide taking a stand for a sane and fair political, environmental, and economic future of our planet. 
  
• Offer a page of suggested readings, practices, and resources for people finding or forming Gratefulness support groups.  So far we know of groups in La Sauvetat, France; Manila, Philippines; Wellington, New Zealand; Jacksonville, Florida; and Jona, Switzerland.
  
• Make it possible for people to send ecards in French, German, Portuguese, and Spanish.
  
• Run two five-part series:  “Being with Dying:  The four boundless Abodes,” by Joan Halifax Roshi and “A God-Centered Ecology,” by Dr. Maria Jaoudi.
  
• Feature pieces by special guests, such as communications expert Terry Pearce’s essay on prescription for authentic appreciation and Martha Kate Miller’s heartbreakingly beautiful script about the inner work of aging.
  
• Quadruple our subscriber base, with more than 12,000 people now subscribing to our monthly newsletter.
  
• Approach the one million mark in numbers of online candles lit, bringing special solace and solidarity in moments of worldwide concern, especially for victims of devastating natural disasters.
  
• Offer a continual stream of poetry, Gratefulnews updates, Gift-People essays, Question-and-Answer Box answers, and new and seasonal ecard selections.

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  Thanks to your support, we have been able to keep Gratefulness.org thriving since Thanksgiving 2000.
  We welcome contributions
  of any size.
  
  

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  Questions?  Please contact us.
  2004 Report: What your support enabled us to accomplish.