Hi Renata St and Dan-
I just wanted to assure you that there is no change in fundraising
strategy. WMF raises that great majority of its funds from online
donations, with most of them being under USD $30.
We also raise approximately $6 million from foundations and major donors.
The guidance for this comes from the Revenue Plan that was developed in the
five year strategic plan (page 17):
“In addition to seeking increased support from community donations,
Wikimedia will continue to raise limited but critical funds from
foundations, major donors, and licensing and other business partnerships.”
Yes, the event at the Dillion Gallery is our. That said, we focus the
lion’s share of our work on the online donation model.
Thank you,
Lisa Seitz Gruwell
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 5:30 PM, Dan Collins <en.wp.st47(a)gmail.com> wrote:
What are you talking about? A quick Google reveals no
evidence that the
Wikimedia Foundation and the Dillon Gallery have any association, apart
from we have a wiki page on them. Who is the mail from - WMF or a chapter?
Do you often receive snail mail from them? If not, do you have any evidence
that you haven't fallen victim to an elaborate scam? What is an
"invitation(?)" and how does it differ from an invitation?
To borrow your TL;DR, In short: huh???
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 8:09 PM, Renata St <renatawiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi, so I got this snail mail with an
invitation(?) to an event(?) at
Dillon
Gallery on Oct 1 for a suggested(?) donation of
$500... and it left me
confused more than anything else.
What's the event about? I can't find anything anywhere else (not that I
looked very hard). I understand it's a fundraising function, but besides
that? If I go there, what am I going to get (other than Cocktails & Hors
d'oeuvres)?
What if I don't do the suggested donation?
On a whole different level, since when does Wikimedia do fundraising
events? I thought it was a policy to abandon attempts to gain major
donors
and to focus on the $10 donations? When did that
change?
In short: huh???
R.
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