On Feb 4, 2008 10:15 PM, Erik Moeller <erik(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> The point
was also made that matching donations came too late in the
> campaign to be as effective as they might have otherwise been. This
> might have been unavoidable because of the individual donor though.
> There is no mention in the report of matching donations?
The timing of the donation made it impossible to phase it in earlier -
and given that it overlapped with a general boost around New Year's,
it's hard to tell what the impact on donor behavior was. But we'll
certainly continue to, *cough*, play with matches to see what effect
they might have. ;-)
In the current US Presidential Election, Barack Obama has been driving
contributions with a "matching donors" program, which just puts two
individuals who give at the same level in touch with each other.
Perhaps something similar could be looked into for future use?
I will not link the Obama matching donors program directly, for fear
of being accused of electioneering. :-)