We would like to extend our deepest thanks to those who responded to EFF’s call for end-of-year donations in December. Gifts from individuals strengthen our ability to bring a relentless passion for the public interest into everything we do, from challenging the NSA’s mass surveillance, to stopping patent trolls, to finding a path for real net neutrality, and more. Last year’s Power Up Your Donation campaign and the Last Call donation challenge were led by people who wanted to convince others to affirm a dedication to privacy, free expression, and other essential values. After many thousands of individual gifts and stirring gestures of encouragement, the sentiment from our community is clear—let’s keep up the fight and be ambitious.

2015 marks EFF’s 25th year of fighting for digital civil liberties—a milestone that comes as the whole community bears down on a proliferation of definitive challenges—stopping unchecked surveillance, regaining control of our computing devices, and bolstering commonsense computer security, just to name a few. EFF has undertaken deliberate growth in the last few years, bringing in more firepower for our legal challenges, more essential know-how for privacy-enhancing technology, and more capacity to collaborate in defense of our rights.

With your support, we’ve been able to think big for our objectives this year. We’re setting our sights on fixing Executive Order 12333, the secretive order purporting to justify large swathes of the NSA’s mass spying. We’ve kicked off a mission to eradicate DRM in our lifetimes, developing challenges to the infamous, innovation-killing provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). We're uncovering important details about law enforcement’s heedless rush to adopt surveillance technologies. And we’re persisting in our legal challenges to NSA spying and national security letters, work to encrypt the web, and putting an end to patent trolls.

Thank you for standing with us and setting the stage for another dynamic year. EFF's deeply held pledge to defend freedom in a digital world would be merely a promise without your dedication to a better future.