On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 00:33, Daniel Schwenlists@schwen.de wrote:
receives come with strings attached, and Wikimedia PL can only spend that money _within Poland_. None of their doing, it's the law, you can't do anything about it. It goes with their non-profit status. In
I find this hard to believe. By the same logic it would be impossible for a polish non-profit to perform humanitarian aid in development countries.
Not all donations come within this frame. I hope I'm not saying anything wrong here, as this is the way I have understood it, but there is a special way a charity can get donations in Poland, and that is through people's income tax. To make a long story short, at the end of the fiscal year as a tax payer in poland, you have the possibility to decide that 1% (or some other %?) of your income tax goes to a designated charity (approved by the tax office). Donations received through this mean are to be spent in Poland.
Charities can also fundraise in various other ways and the donations coming through those other channels do not come with those strings attached. Not all charities are "designated charities", although they can still have tax-deductible status. Which should answer your disbelief... charities in Poland _can_ spend their money elsewhere than in Poland, if it does not come through this 1%.
Delphine