[Foundation-l] Help needed to develop fundraising appeal ideas

[Anthony]

On 5/25/06, Anthere <Anthere9 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I asked Michael if we could get a financial report to evaluate the
> situation. Financial statements for the year are roughly done, but for a
> part about Wikimania still not fixed. I suppose Mav should soon give us
> more feedback I expect. We have approximately 530 000 dollars in cash,
> which is roughly what it was at the end of February.

> In a message dated 11/6/2006 10:58:45 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> messedrocker at gmail.com writes:
>
> WMF has  around $500k in its bank account last I heard, though they're going
> to be  spending AT LEAST that on servers. Keep in mind nothing I say  is
> official.

On 11/6/06, daniwo59 at aol.com <daniwo59 at aol.com> wrote:
>
> WMF has nowhere close to $500k in its bank account(s).
>

Yes, that financial data is desperately needed, audited or not.  It's
hard to come up with a good (*) appeal for money when you don't have
any idea what you have or how much you need.

Anthony

(*) where "good" means more than just "successful"