This story was updated on January 7, 2014.

As the holidays approach and the year winds down, we’re reminded of how much each of you brings to ProPublica’s work.

We couldn’t do what we do so effectively without the subscribers to our daily and other newsletters, our Twitter followers, our Facebook fans, the commenters on our stories, the participants in our chats and Facebook groups — the people who not only read our investigative journalism in the public interest, but think about it, talk about it with friends and colleagues, support it and push for change based on what they read.

We hope you agree that we’ve worked hard this year to deliver on our mission. It’s been a year in which ProPublica didn’t hesitate to take on the biggest subjects, from the NSA undermining encryption to the dangers of Tylenol, from the perils of unregulated assisted living to the waste of billions of tax dollars in Medicare Part D, from the exploitation of temporary workers to the latest abuses in predatory lending. If you value this work, I hope we can count on you to show your support at this season by becoming a ProPublican — and donating.

ProPublica, as a non-profit, depends on the generosity of people like you. We’ve already had thousands of donors this year. If you’ve been one of them, thank you. If you can give, or give again, at this time, it will really make a difference, enabling us to carry on the same kind of hard-hitting, change-making investigative journalism in the year ahead.

I hope we can count on you again as a ProPublican. Please donate today.

Update: We were thrilled with the response from our readers over the holidays. From the original time of this post, through Midnight on New Year’s Eve, we received more than 900 donations, nearly twice the number we targeted. In all in 2013, ProPublica had more than 3000 donors. It was our most successful fundraising year ever; donations made directly online topped $200,000 for the first time. Details to come soon in our annual report, out later this month.