[Foundation-l] Great news! Google gives Wikimedia USD 2 million

[Philippe Beaudette]

On Feb 17, 2010, at 10:12 AM, Bod Notbod wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:
>
>> The prior question is, where did the money come from?  I can't seem  
>> to
>> figure out what the Google Fund at the Tides Foundation is...
>
> It does seem slightly opaque.
>
> A small amount of digging suggests that Google gives money to here:
>
> http://www.tides.org/index.php
>
> ...which then releases it again on Google's say so. Maybe. My only
> evidence for this is really:
>
> http://bit.ly/d5I3PD

This response is drawn from my previous knowledge of the Tides  
Foundation, and no particular knowledge of how Google is using them:

In my experience in the past, the Tides Foundation manages a  
charitable fund for an entity.  Essentially, the entity gives money to  
this fund, and then says "Hey, these people are doing good work, let's  
help them do more of it..."; Tides then goes through and handles the  
legal due diligence and the paperworky stuff that no one really wants  
to do. :-)

Philippe