[Foundation-l] The end of donations

[geni]

2009/7/31 stevertigo <stvrtg at gmail.com>:
> It occurs to me that when people donate money to something, it is to
> some degree with an expectation that the recipient entity grows to
> eventually gain a certain kind of financial self-sufficiency. Is this
> not also the case with Wikimedia and many charitable donations to it?
>
> -Steven

Nope. Many charities of various sizes rely on year to year donations.
Financial self-sufficiency is mostly limited to various internet
projects that manage to replace donations with ads and merchandise.


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geni