[Foundation-l] Three fundraising job openings

[George Herbert]

Dan, I can't predict the future any better than you can 8-)

However...

The general observations remain.  Other nonprofits use such people, to
do the same things, to drive large parts of their fundraising.  This
is normal and par for the course in the organized charity realm.

What the WMF wants to do, what we've asked the foundation to do, do
require these types of growth.

It's possible that executing on this will not go well, but trying to
do it seems clearly appropriate.


-george

On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 6:56 PM, Dan Rosenthal <swatjester at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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-george william herbert
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