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(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 6 December 2014 at 20:47, Gerard Meijssen
<gerard.meijssen(a)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.
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