On 31/12/06, The Cunctator cunctator@gmail.com wrote:
The Democrats actually did an innovative fundraising drive with matching gifts -- but at the, let's call it, peer-to-peer level. People could pledge to be matchers -- e.g. pledge to contribute $75 to match three donations of $25, or contribute $50 for a matching donation of $50, or pledge to contribute $5000 for 50 matching donations of $100, etc. and had the option of having their email/name be open to the people who matched their contributions.
That's a great idea!
Another thing the DNC does is have monthly contributions, which they call Democracy Bonds. There's no reason Wikimedia should only accept one-time contributions.
Any sensible charity makes arrangements to try to subscribe contributors. I'm sure, in Danny's copious free time ...
- d.