[Foundation-l] Disclaimer on fundraising page

[Daniel Mayer]

--- Delirium <delirium at hackish.org> wrote:
> In the United States, many states have requirements that you officially 
> register with the state before you solicit donations as a non-profit 
> organization.  Since Wikimedia is only registered in Florida, it's not 
> permitted to solicit donations elsewhere (except in a few states without 
> that requirement).  There might be requirements in other countries as well.
> 
> Historically this has meant things like being outside a mall, or mailing 
> solicitations to people's houses; the court cases on whether having a 
> website in state [X] that permits donations from state [Y] counts as 
> soliciting in state [Y] seem inconclusive, at least the last time I 
> searched for some.

Yep - that is my understanding as well. 

 > But I agree, we are basically soliciting donations ("Please donate"), 
> but saying that we're not, which is a little odd.  If we really don't 
> want to be soliciting donations, we need to change our language so that 
> we don't say things like "please donate" or "help us reach our 
> fundraising goals".  Saying the equivalent of "Please give us money 
> (this is not a request to give us money)" is a little bit silly.

Where is that wording? I can't find the wording "please donate" or "help us
reach our fundraising goal." Please tell me so I can rewrite it to be
informational instead of pleading. 

-- mav




		
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