People tend not to fund paper nonprofits. If someone pokes the grant funders hard enough,
they will reconsider their grants.
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From: Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com>
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 9:07:31 AM
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] The Wkii Way
2008/11/26 Geoffrey Plourde <geo.plrd(a)yahoo.com>om>:
Democracy is still the enemy of autocracy. Also if a
chapter gets really bad, people will vote with their dues and chapter will soon find
itself in the red.
That depends on the chapter - I think different chapters rely on
membership fees to different extents. If a chapter gets its funding
primarily from donations (and perhaps grants) from non-members it
would be theoretically able to function effectively without a large
membership (although a lack of manpower may harm the quality of its
outreach programs, etc.).
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