[Foundation-l] Combined Federal Campaign

[Brad Patrick]

There are a number of lists of US charities for which WMF has not been
included to date, owing to its lack of audit.  Our auditors are presenting
their final report to the Board this week; expect many things to change in
the coming weeks, for the good!

-Brad

On 11/28/06, Andrew Gray <shimgray at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 28/11/06, Sebastian Moleski <sebmol at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 11/28/06, David Monniaux <David.Monniaux at free.fr> wrote:
> > >
> > > An email on OTRS suggests the Wikimedia Foundation should be on the
> list
> > > of charities of this system.
> > > I'm unsure we can apply.
> > >
> > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combined_Federal_Campaign
> >
> >
> > This seems like an interesting source of donations to pursue. As to
> > eligibility, from what I read, Wikimedia should fall under the
> eligibility
> > criteria (provided they are up to par on the usual paperwork required of
> > charities). I've looked at the list of organizations (
> > http://www.cfctoday.org/federations/index.html) that are currently part
> of
> > the program. Among them were several who in whole or part have education
> as
> > one of their goals so I don't see why Wikimedia could not be eligible.
>
> I'm unsure quite what "demonstrate that they provide or conduct real
> services, benefits, assistance or program activities in [geographic
> areas]" might mean - online-only projects which don't give physical
> charitable donations might get a bit misplaced under a strict reading
> of this.
>
> I suppose there's nothing to be lost in sounding it out.
>
> --
> - Andrew Gray
>   andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk
> _______________________________________________
> foundation-l mailing list
> foundation-l at wikimedia.org
> http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
>



-- 
Brad Patrick
General Counsel & Interim Executive Director
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
bradp.wmf at gmail.com
727-231-0101