[Foundation-l] Board letter about fundraising and chapters

[Béria Lima]

The discussion in Internal-l is case-to-case and don't concern people who
are not involved in the chapter in discussion or WMF.

And - again - WMF don't "give money to chapters" in fundraising. The chapter
earn it alone. And the only thing to be in the way is the fundraising
agreement. Who - again - says that 50% goes to WMF and 50% stay with the
chapter. If that 50% is more than what the chapter need, is not WMF job to
ask the money back, because - again - the money don't belong to WMF.

I sugguest you to go tough chapters report and ask what they are doing with
the money they receive in Fundraising. They need to be transparent about
what they are doing, but WMF does not have a "policy" status over that.
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*Béria Lima*
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On 5 August 2011 21:48, MZMcBride <z em mzmcbride.com> wrote:

> Béria Lima wrote:
> > WMF *can't *ask money back from Chapters. By the agreement, Chapters who
> > participate in last year Fundraising need to give 50% of everything they
> > raised to WMF, but they are not forced to do anything more. And WMF can't
> > ask for more than that because there are 2 different organizations.
>
> I'm sorry, I don't follow.
>
> It's my understanding that some of these chapters received tens of
> thousands
> of dollars. In some cases, as noted by the Board, this far exceeded the
> chapter's needs. If that's the case, I'm not sure why it would be
> out-of-the-question to ask for some of the money back. There might be
> reasons that the chapters don't want to or aren't required to, but I don't
> see any reason why the Wikimedia Foundation couldn't ask.
>
> Can you clarify?
>
> (And to all those chapter-related people and Wikimedia Foundation staff
> currently discussing this on internal-l, could you please try to honor the
> transparency and accountability that Wikimedia was founded upon and discuss
> this on the public list?)
>
> MZMcBride
>
>
>
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