Phoebe, you said, "... in our meeting the board discussed whether we should try to raise more money now to build our long-term reserves (which I personally think is wise, given current trends)."
Phoebe and Samuel, I would be very concerned if your foundation created an endowment fund to ensure its survival in perpetuity. If your foundation were to disappear tomorrow, there would be a moment of chaos, followed by business as usual, with hosting supplied by another (possibly pre-existing), hopefully competent non-profit with a mission to educate.
I'm very optimistic that Lila is turning things around, but all we have to go on at the moment is the past performance of your foundation. Your failure of a foundation that has added nothing to the reliability and value of the world's encyclopedia, while sucking up hundreds of millions of readers' dollars does not deserve immortality, based on its performance up to now. Consider an endowment fund when you have a track record that justifies one.
Anthony Cole http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Anthonyhcole
On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 9:58 PM, K. Peachey p858snake@gmail.com wrote:
On 6 December 2014 at 20:47, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
Whining about effective fundraising is just that.. Please help us with approaches that bring in the additional money to do even more in stead. Thanks, GerardM
Oh, I don't know, maybe have smaller ads which don't cover up whole screens or over half (like in my case). We have seemed to do alright with smaller [screen wise] ads in previous years, which we could more efftively target rather then pushing people away. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe