[Foundation-l] Three fundraising job openings

[Dan Rosenthal]

I think we're far to early to pass judgment over whether the 3  
positions are cost effective without a) knowing the salaries, which I  
doubt we will, and b) seeing how well they perform, and c) actually  
hiring anyone yet.

-Dan
On Apr 17, 2008, at 9:52 PM, George Herbert wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 6:25 PM, Chad <innocentkiller at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>> Do we honestly need 3 more employees all doing the same thing? I  
>> really
>> think a dedicated "Donations Coordinator" could accomplish the same
>> thing, rather than making 3 positions, at least at this point in  
>> time.
>
> These type of employees usually pay for themselves many many times
> over in the increased donations.  I have heard of exceptions, and
> hopefully Erik, Sue, and the Board will reverse this if the donations
> don't come through accordingly.
>
> But... if one looks out there at donating entities, foundations and
> rich individuals and companies and the like, there's a lot of
> charitable money out there that the Foundation should be going after,
> and the bandwidth and focused job role of doing so seems like an
> excellent idea to me.
>
> We want the foundation to be stable, growing, build an endowment, be
> able to help with creating and encouraging open content not just
> within the context of the projects but in society as a whole.  Those
> things aren't going to be cheap.  There is donor money out there.  If
> we want to do those things, we need that donor money.
>
> "Growing up" to the point that we acknowledge that, create the
> positions, hire for them, and then execute on chasing and catching
> donations of appropriate scope is an important evolution for the
> Foundation.  It's a good idea.  It's a necessary set of steps in the
> long term.
>
>
> -- 
> -george william herbert
> george.herbert at gmail.com
>
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