There are a number of lists of US charities for which WMF has not been included to date, owing to its lack of audit. Our auditors are presenting their final report to the Board this week; expect many things to change in the coming weeks, for the good!
-Brad
On 11/28/06, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
On 28/11/06, Sebastian Moleski sebmol@gmail.com wrote:
On 11/28/06, David Monniaux David.Monniaux@free.fr wrote:
An email on OTRS suggests the Wikimedia Foundation should be on the
list
of charities of this system. I'm unsure we can apply.
This seems like an interesting source of donations to pursue. As to eligibility, from what I read, Wikimedia should fall under the
eligibility
criteria (provided they are up to par on the usual paperwork required of charities). I've looked at the list of organizations ( http://www.cfctoday.org/federations/index.html) that are currently part
of
the program. Among them were several who in whole or part have education
as
one of their goals so I don't see why Wikimedia could not be eligible.
I'm unsure quite what "demonstrate that they provide or conduct real services, benefits, assistance or program activities in [geographic areas]" might mean - online-only projects which don't give physical charitable donations might get a bit misplaced under a strict reading of this.
I suppose there's nothing to be lost in sounding it out.
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