Dear Katherine and Wikimedians,
I'm not sure if this email will go through to this list or not, since I've
gotten some bounce backs, but I'm writing to let you know of a last minute
grant writing workshop in SF at Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi's
office tomorrow at 11 am. I just emailed the following to the SF Quaker
Meeting (on 9th Street) list about this opportunity. (And World University
and School, of which I'm the founder, president and presiding clerk,
donated CC WUaS to CC Wikidata last October 2015).
Dear Friends,
Do you know anyone in SF Friends' Meeting who might be interested, at this
last minute, in a grant-writing workshop in Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi's
office tomorrow morning at 11am? The workshop still has spaces available.
I'm seeking to write grants via Nancy's office for Friendly-informed World
University and School. (I'm heading to the Federal Building on 7th Street
from the SF Friends' Meeting House with Quakers for a 10am meeting there -
to join in a Quaker conversation beforehand. For this 10 am Quaker
gathering, Friends are gathering at 9 am at SF FM, probably partly to get
into the Federal Building early to deal with their "Airport Security" per
Jocelyn Yow's email below, and possibly for Meeting as well. I'm leaving my
little Swiss Army pocket knife at home right now). If interested, you would
need to RSVP with Jocelyn Yow for this at Jocelyn.Yow(a)mail.house.gov soon.
Friendly greetings, Scott
worlduniversityandschool.org
- Scott
From *Jocelyn Yow*
Field Representative
*Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, Democratic Leader*
Greetings,
Thank you for your RSVP for tomorrow’s grants workshop at 11a.m. at 90 7th
Street, San Francisco, California 94103 .
As a reminder, all visitors must present government-issued photo
identification, such as a valid state driver license, ID card or passport,
to gain access to the Federal Building. Entering the building is much like
airport security, and will require extra time. Arriving early is highly
recommended to allow for security procedures. The San Francisco Federal
Building is located one block south of the Civic Center/UN Plaza Muni and
BART Station
http://www.bart.gov/stations/civc. The closest parking garage
is the SOMA Grand, 1160 Mission Street, at $2 an hour
http://www.yelp.com/biz/soma-grand-garage-san-francisco.
We still have spaces available. If you know anyone else who is interested
in attending, feel free to bring them along to the workshop.
Thanks,
*Jocelyn Yow*
Field Representative
*Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, Democratic Leader*
90 – 7th Street, Ste 2-800, San Francisco, CA 94103
Tel (415) 556-4862 | Fax (415) 861-1670
www.pelosi.house.gov <http://www.house.gov/pelosi>
www.DemocraticLeader.gov <http://www.democraticleader.gov/>
On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 6:17 PM, Joseph Seddon <jseddon(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
It's mostly the fact that it's a low priority
dump, isn't maintained
actively, some of the queries used to produce it are old and probably need
updating and some of them are definitely broken (the refund sheet certainly
is). It includes some major gifts donations (which we don't include in our
campaign target for online fundraising), but almost certainly not others.
So all in all it just needs an overhaul (the YTD sheet only includes
$59,000,000 for the last calendar year which is some $18,000,000 short.
Something to look into.
Seddon
On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 9:36 AM, WereSpielChequers <
werespielchequers(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Seddon,
I can understand a few anomalies where people give when they don't have
funds to cover it, and for a difference between estimated exchange rates
and the actual exchange rate that applied when the transaction was
processed (currencies float and are quite capable of moving between the
moment you are aware of a donation and the moment it is converted into
one
of the currencies you bank in). But I'd
expect such anomalies to be a
tiny
fraction of a percent. OK one of these days we
will have a record
breaking
donation day in a currency that then devalues by
half before we convert
that money into dollars, but I don't recall any spectacular devaluations
in
the last two weeks.
Is it worth checking to see why these numbers in the frdata dump are
only a
rough guide?
If its something as innocent as our estimates still working on say 2012
currency conversions and the actual currency conversions are based on the
day rate, then meh. But if one set of figures is gross before credit card
and other transaction costs and the other figures are net, or one set
assumed a UK Gift Aid sign up as high as Wikimedia UK could have got and
the reality was much lower, then I'd be alarmed at such a difference.
Jonathan
> Hey
Andreas
>
> A very quick email just noting I don't know the method by which
> that
frdata
> dump is created (its very old and not maintained) but it would
> seem
that
> numbers in the frdata dump are only useful
as a rough guide.
>
> We are basing our numbers on internal accounting figures which is
> more representative of the actual cash flow since it is more
> closely based
on
> > actual cleared payments.
> >
> > Seddon
_______________________________________________
Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/
wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines
New messages to: Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Unsubscribe:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l,
<mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
--
Seddon
*Advancement Associate (Community Engagement)*
*Wikimedia Foundation*
_______________________________________________
Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/
wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines
New messages to: Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Unsubscribe:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l,
<mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
--
- Scott MacLeod - Founder & President
-
http://worlduniversityandschool.org
- 415 480 4577
- PO Box 442, (86 Ridgecrest Road), Canyon, CA 94516
- World University and School - like Wikipedia with best STEM-centric
OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in
California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization.
World University and School is sending you this because of your interest in
free, online, higher education. If you don't want to receive these, please
reply with 'unsubscribe' in the body of the email, leaving the subject line
intact. Thank you.