[Foundation-l] Omidyar Network Commits $2 Million Grant to Wikimedia Foundation

[Anthony]

On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Guillaume Paumier <guillom.pom at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Gregory Kohs<thekohser at gmail.com> wrote:> A board member (or volunteer, or anyone who goes around and asks
> > someone to donate money to a cause) has some leverage if they can
> > answer: « I donated $2 million because I think this cause is worthy.
> > How much will you donate? »
> >
> > How unfortunate for Matt Halprin.  As far as I know, it was his employer,
> > Omidyar Network, that made the big donation, not Halprin himself
> personally.
>
> Simply replace my conclusion by « I had my company donate $2 million
> because I managed to convince them that this cause is worthy. How much
> will you or your company donate? »


Fairly huge difference, when you put it that way.  I'm still untwisting the
details trying to figure out who's getting paid what by whom for what,
though.