[Foundation-l] Fundraising idea

[James Hare]

We could list the Top 5 donors in the watchlist and see if people feel they
can take the challenge to add themselves to that list. But that may be seen
as some sort of advertising... and companies won't like that individuals are
allowed yet they aren't, even though they have $1,000,000 to donate and the
wealthiest individual philanthropic benefactor only has $100,000 set aside.

On 11/8/06, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 08/11/06, James Forrester <james at jdforrester.org> wrote:
>
> > I am aware that this may get derided as advertising, but I really
> > don't think it's true - this is merely an extended press release, as
> > it were. I think that a line (in the site notice), saying something
> > like "Foo have pledged to match up to US$200,000 in our [[current
> > fund-raising drive]]" instead of the current text ("Your [[continued
> > donations]] keep Wikipedia running!") would be appropriate and
> > understated (believe me, I'm British, "understated" is what we /do/).
>
>
> We wouldn't get away with naming the company in the sitenotice - it'd
> have to be a link to a page listing the matching donations. Think
> that'd work for anyone?
>
>
> - d.
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