As far as I know, WMF has done one or two small fundraising events most
years. It is a minor part of overall fundraising strategy. We have some
donors who like to give at social events, instead of online, and these
events are for largely initiated and organized by them. They have all been
held at fairly small (usually donated) venues. I don't see this as a change
in policy. The revenue plan calls for us to have online fundraising as our
primary strategy and major donors (who typically give through events),
foundations, etc. as a secondary revenue stream. The fundraising team's
work is in line with that direction.
On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 11:19 AM, HaeB <haebwiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
2013/8/30 Renata St <renatawiki(a)gmail.com>om>:
Hi Lisa,
Thanks for the reply, I never doubted it's WM event -- it just majorly
surprised me and I still have a bunch of questions:
1) is this the first fundraising event? I have never heard of them
before...
FWIW, here is a Signpost article about a previous fundraising event:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2010-10-18/News_…
2) what's going to happen at that event and
why should I go? Invitation
had
not a peep about that...
3) why there is nothing about it anywhere?
4) when did this policy change come about? I know Sue was quite adamantly
against it...
Thanks!
Renata
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 8:39 PM, Lisa Gruwell <lgruwell(a)wikimedia.org
wrote:
> 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.
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > Wikimedia-l mailing list
> > > Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> > > Unsubscribe:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l,
> > >
<mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org
?subject=unsubscribe>
> >
_______________________________________________
> > Wikimedia-l mailing list
> > Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> > Unsubscribe:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ,
<mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
_______________________________________________
Wikimedia-l mailing list
Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Unsubscribe:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l,
<mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
_______________________________________________
Wikimedia-l mailing list
Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Unsubscribe:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l,
<mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
_______________________________________________
Wikimedia-l mailing list
Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Unsubscribe:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l,
<mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>