Dear Friends, Partners, and Collaborators,

When GoodLands began, our vision was to map and mobilize Catholic property for environmental stewardship and social good. Thanks to an extraordinary community of GIS experts, cartographers, researchers, Church leaders, and conservationists, the demand for this work has grown far beyond what a single small nonprofit could fulfill on its own.

GoodLands as a standalone organization is winding down its operations, but the mission is not ending.

To ensure this work truly scales to meet need and demand, we are not holding our resources inside a closed organization; we are releasing them. We are officially sunsetting GoodLands’ direct organizational structure and fully transitioning our data, methodologies, and spatial frameworks into the public domain. Open-sourcing these solutions allows universities, dioceses, developers, and local communities to replicate, improve, and deploy them with complete autonomy and longevity.

Where the Work Continues

The impact will be far greater as we build on our existing foundation using emerging AI tools and open frameworks alongside dedicated partners:

• Catholic Digital Commons Foundation: Ensuring long-term, open-access stewardship of our core geospatial datasets and digital tools.

• Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development’s Laudato Si’ Action Platform: Integrating spatial intelligence directly into Church-wide ecological action and sustainability benchmarks.

• CUA Leonum Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies: Partnering to apply modern AI tools and data science to Catholic land stewardship.

• Angelicum (Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas): Continuing foundational research in social sciences and ecclesiastical data frameworks through ongoing graduate studies.

By pairing open data with emerging AI technologies, local communities worldwide will be equipped to analyze, protect, and restore their own lands with greater scale and precision than ever before.

With my deepest gratitude to everyone who supported, advised, volunteered, and journeyed with GoodLands over the years: thank you. What an incredible journey it has been and it continues now in a new, more expansive way.

Peace in Christ,

Molly Burhans

Founder, GoodLands