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@@ -268,13 +268,11 @@ Wine, BusyBox, QEMU, Inkscape, Selenium, and dozens more.</p>
 
 <p>We are asking for you
   to <a href="#donate-box" class="donate-now">join us and become a
-    Conservancy Supporter</a>. Last year, we said needed at least 750 
-  of you to become annual Supporters just to continue our basic community
-  services, and we thank you so much that you responded.  But 
-  we still need 2,500 (total) of you to become annual Supporters to continue
-  our licensing work through 2017, including defending copyleft.  If you don't become a Supporter now,
-  we will be forced to radically restructure and wind down a substantial portion
-  of our operations.</p>
+  Conservancy Supporter</a>. Last year, over 1,000 of you became annual
+  Supporters, allowing us to continue our basic operations.  We still need
+  2,500 (total) annual Supporters to continue our full range of operations
+  through 2017.  If you don't become a Supporter now, we will be forced to
+  reduce our program activities going forward.</p>
 
 <h4 style="clear: left;">2016 successes</h4>