Erowid Center

Grass Valley, CA

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Erowid Center

Physical Address:: Grass Valley, CA 95945
EIN:: 20-3256212
Web URL:: www.erowidcenter.org/
Leadership:: F. Erowid

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Fiscal Year Starting: Jan 1, 2010
Fiscal Year Ending: Dec 31, 2010

Revenue
Total Revenue	$296,643

Expenses
Total Expenses	$280,332

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Basic Organization Information

Erowid Center

Physical Address:: Grass Valley, CA 95945
EIN:: 20-3256212
Web URL:: www.erowidcenter.org/
NTEE Category:: B Educational Institutions; B99 Education N.E.C.; B Educational Institutions; B70 Libraries, Library Science; None
Ruling Year:: 2007

Mission Statement

Erowid Center's mission is to provide and facilitate access to objective, accurate, and non-judgmental information about plants, chemicals, technologies, and related issues that affect the mind, body and culture. To support medical, legal, scientific, academic and independent experts in developing and publishing related resources.

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Impact Summary from the Nonprofit

Erowid's information about psychoactive plants and drugs is read by 100,000 unique people every day (2.5 million each month). It is a resource used by physicians and toxicologists in the treatment of patients, by teachers and parents in educating youth, by authors and news organizations as a reference, and by psychoactive users looking for practical safety and usage information. It is an independent, non-judgmental resource which helps people make better decisions and policies about mind-altering drugs and technologies.

Personal Reviews

Becca3

"I have been using Erowid's services since they were hyperreal.com(circa 1995-96). I have always found their information to be both informative and useful, and also easy to understand for a lay person..." Read more »

ltrain

"Erowid Center is a great resource! The war on drugs can not be won. It should not be won. Because of this war on drug, as a culture, we are losing what some of these drug can and have taught us. All o..." Read more »

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Forms 990 Received from the IRS IRS Form 990 is an annual document used by approximately one-third of all public charities to report information about their finances and operations to the federal government. GuideStar uses data from Form 990 to populate its database with financial information about nonprofit organizations. Posting Form 990 images on the GuideStar Web site is an ongoing process.

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Financial Statements

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Annual Reports

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Leadership

F. Erowid

Board Chair

Board of Directors

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Program: Online Psychoactive Information Services

Budget:: $110,000
Category:: Education
Population Served:: General Public/Unspecified

Program Description:

We develop, maintain, and provide free access to an online collection of more than 59,000 documents and other media files related to psychoactive drugs. More than 2.5 million people access the information in this archive each month. The collection contains essays and articles authored by a broad spectrum of contributors including health care professionals, substance abuse counselors, chemists, therapists, law enforcement agents, anthropologists, lawyers, researchers, educators, and the general public.

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Program: EcstasyData Testing Program

Budget:: $23,000
Category:: Education
Population Served:: General Public/Unspecified

Program Description:

Erowid Center runs a street ecstasy testing program. Members of the public submit suspected ecstasy tablets to a DEA-licensed laboratory for analysis. Its purpose is to collect, manage, review, and present laboratory pill testing results from a variety of organizations. The information is made publicly available to help harm-reduction efforts, medical personnel, researchers, and the general public. Results are published online at Erowid Center’s Ecstasydata.org.

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Program: Erowid Extracts Newsletter

Budget:: $32,000
Category:: Education
Population Served:: General Public/Unspecified

Program Description:

We publish two issues of our print newsletter each year, including all new educational articles and information about psychoactives and related events and organizations. We print 2,500 copies of this 28-page advertisement-free publication and distribute it to members and the public. All articles are later published online.

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Program: Generations - Document Archiving

Budget:: $15,000
Category:: Education
Population Served:: General Public/Unspecified

Program Description:

Collecting, maintaining, and preserving resources about psychoactives as a historical record for the future in order to help transmit the wisdom of psychoactive-using elders to younger generations. This project includes the archiving and transcription of documents from the valuable collections of elders such as Albert Hofmann, Alexander Shulgin, and Myron Stolaroff.

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