Dear NRDC Supporter,

Today is the most important fundraising day of the entire year for NRDC. As our Chief Development Officer, I wanted to send you a quick note to explain why today matters so much.

It's pretty simple: The funds we raise today will help us make tough decisions about how we most effectively use our budget to protect the environment next year — from pressing the incoming Biden-Harris administration to reverse Trump's anti-environmental assaults to holding them to their promises for bold climate action.

I just checked the numbers and we haven't hit our $500,000 quadruple match goal yet. If we're going to make progress on our ambitious plan for next year, we need to hit that goal.

You can help by making a tax-deductible gift to NRDC right now. Please do this before our midnight deadline — if you do, every dollar you can spare will go FOUR TIMES as far to power NRDC's critical work for the planet next year. Even $5 helps.

You don't need me to tell you that 2021 is going to be a pivotal moment for our environment and climate future. Here's a preview of what's ahead for NRDC:

• Restoring clean water and clean air safeguards gutted by the Trump administration.
• Permanently protecting the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge from devastating oil and gas drilling.
• Fighting alongside Black people, Indigenous people, and communities of color who are disproportionately impacted by pollution and the climate crisis.
• Halting construction of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline once and for all.
• Saving millions of acres of priceless old-growth trees from logging and other destruction in Alaska's Tongass National Forest.
• Preventing dangerous offshore drilling from wrecking our oceans and coastal communities.
• Pushing the Biden-Harris Administration to take bold, decisive action to fight climate change.

Sounds like a lot, right? That's because it is. And that list only scratches the surface of what we need to get done in the weeks and months ahead. It's costly work — but it's work we must do if we're going to begin to reverse the Trump administration's damage to our environment and mitigate the worst impacts of climate change before it's too late.

We're looking to NRDC supporters like you to help make it happen, . Pitch in now, while every $1 has the power of $4.

Thank you and have a wonderful New Year's Eve!


Jennifer Bernstein
Chief Development Officer, NRDC