[Foundation-l] Fundraising update

[Anthere]

Aphaia wrote:
> Thanks, Brad, for your clarification.
> 
> On 12/18/06, Brad Patrick <bpatrick at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> 
>>I think the best approach is to keep the notice, and add individual
>>localized information on the Deductability of Donations page, see DE and
>>FR comments, for example. This will prevent any confusion that may arise
>>about the law that applies to WMF in other countries.
> 
> 
> So how are we going to clarify it? Here we need clear criteria what to
> describe and not. Currently the default link may be led to
> deductability page in English and now mentions only US, Deutschland (
> in German) and France ( in French). There is no other country or area
> information. Some editor tried to add "no deductability in ..." in her
> language, but self-reverted. Similar ideas could happen to arise in
> other's mind.

I think "her" was I in this case. It was for the swiss chapter. I 
realised I was not sure it was tax deductible (yet ?). The only chapters 
I am sure have tax deduc are the french and german. I know the italian 
does not as it is clearly mentionned on the site. For the other ones, I 
just have idea. I prefered removing the info by default.

> - Yes, add your country information in your language to the central page !
> - Eh, sorry no, we are going to say "In other countries no tax
> deductability is available as of December 18, 2006" on that page
> additionaly, and encourage you to their language page.
> 
> Which direction are we going? Thoughts?
> Cheers,

An important point to mention is that the chapters are different legal 
entities than the Foundation. It may be (likely it is) that the money 
collected by chapters serve the exact same mission than WMF, but we can 
not garantee that to donators. So, somehow, we need to make it clear 
that there is a difference. So, the general idea is not

We can give in countries x, y and z and get tax deductibility. In 
others, no tax deduc

The general idea is

The Foundaiton is tax deduc in the USA and no where else. If you want to 
help and want some tax deduction, consider giving to the chapters, which 
are different entities, but helping toward similar goals.

This does not confuse people in thinking they are giving to the same 
entity, only with different bank localizations.

Ant