On 12/28/06, David Still daveydweeb@gmail.com wrote:
What about a fundraising drive featuring matched gifts? :D
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.
Other people would come in and contribute and have their donations matched. They could write messages to the original donor, and publish a note online.
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.