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Thank
You for Your Support in 2007
 Our
Volunteer Staff is working hard on putting together
our 2007 Annual Report, and we want to take
a moment to thank each and every one of you who became
a member of Rock the Earth, bid on an item in an auction,
dropped a few bucks in a donation jar, or even just
spread the word about our growing organization. It
is only through generous grassroots support from kind
donors and volunteers like YOU that we were able to
accomplish so much in 2007! To preview some of our
2007 accomplishments, consider the following:
- Rock
the Earth's Annual Education and Outreach Tour included
nearly 100 concert events, 130 concert
dates, and reached well over 1 million people
- Rock
the Earth was present on some of the summer's biggest
tours in Rock, including Ozzfest, the Warped
Tour, the Allman Brothers Band, Incubus,
and the Dave Matthews Band
- Rock
the Earth raised over $125,000 in 2007, the
vast majority of which was from grassroots memberships
and donations
- In
only its third full year in operation, Rock the
Earth continued to prosecute its first litigation
matter (our lawsuit against the National Park
Service over the Colorado River Management Plan)
and worked on no less than a dozen other issues,
including a successful public campaign to persuade
Wal-Mart to cease selling cypress mulch from the
Gulf Region
- Rock
the Earth's active membership grew to nearly
2,100 paid members!
- Rock
the Earth's database and monthly e-newsletter subscription
list grew to over 15,000 people!
- Rock
the Earth received significant funding from a variety
of charitable and for-profit sources that included
the Yahoo! Employees' Foundation, Bonnaroo
Music Festival/Superfly Presents/AC Entertainment,
New Belgium Brewing Company, Stoneyfield
Farms, Bonnie Raitt's Aria Foundation,
the All Good Festival, the Fox Theatre
(Boulder), Jam Cruise, and TicketsWest
- Bands
that put on benefits for Rock the Earth included
the Everyone Orchestra, Hot Buttered Rum,
Umphrey's McGee, New Riders of the Purple
Sage, Rob Drabkin, and the Winter
Jamfest tour
- Rock
the Earth played a large part in the environmental
programming at Bonnaroo, Jam Cruise,
the Northwest String Summit and the Echo
Project, and also partnered with the All
Good Festival, Wakarusa, and Mountain
Jam
And
most importantly, Rock the Earth accomplished all
of this with only one full-time and two part-time
hard-working paid employees. Our thanks to our supporters,
our Volunteer Staff, our Advisory Board and our volunteers
for making 2007 our most successful year ever!! Look
for the full Annual Report on our website in March!
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