On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 12:12 AM, Christiano Moreschi moreschiwikiman@hotmail.co.uk wrote:
Lol, global recession and people give MORE to charity? It's a funny old world. That said, despite this general trend we definitely upgraded the sex appeal of the banner for this year's run...
Actually, no. 2008 was the first year with ED working for the whole year. If I remember well, Sue was working just two-three months during 2007. The first recession year for WMF will be 2009, but I think that there are a lot of space for improving fundraising.
I remember an anecdotal situation from 2006 or so: WM DE gave some money to WMF and WMF didn't know what to do with that. I don't think that it would be the case now.
So, the whole situation is much less about the recession and much more about us. (Yes, not just about WMF, but about all of us.)