[Foundation-l] The Wkii Way

[Geoffrey Plourde]

People tend not to fund paper nonprofits. If someone pokes the grant funders hard enough, they will reconsider their grants.


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From: Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 9:07:31 AM
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] The Wkii Way

2008/11/26 Geoffrey Plourde <geo.plrd at yahoo.com>:
> Democracy is still the enemy of autocracy. Also if a chapter gets really bad, people will vote with their dues and chapter will soon find itself in the red.

That depends on the chapter - I think different chapters rely on
membership fees to different extents. If a chapter gets its funding
primarily from donations (and perhaps grants) from non-members it
would be theoretically able to function effectively without a large
membership (although a lack of manpower may harm the quality of its
outreach programs, etc.).

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