On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 12:14 PM, Ilario Valdelli <valdelli(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Basically there is a weak evaluation costs/benefits.
An organization
spending 30 millions of USD should produce benefits for 30 millions of USD
and should be evaluated as an organization spending 30 millions of USD. Big
budget -> stronger evaluation and stronger measures.
An organization (for instance a small chapter) spending 500K USD should be
evaluated as an organization spending 500K USD and this organization should
produce benefits for 500K USD. Small budget -> weak evaluation and flexible
measures.
Basically if a small chapter, spending 500K USD, is evaluated using the
same parameters of WMF, it should spent an additional amount of 500K USD to
create an organization and a paid staff in order to be able to be evaluated
at the same level of WMF and to receive the 500K USD for their projects
(total = 1 million of USD).
This would only make sense to me if the organization spending $500k is
spending its own money. In this case, it's spending money donated to
the WMF; that means it is subject to the level of scrutiny applied to
the WMF, even if that money is spent on its behalf instead of by it.
~Nathan