[Foundation-l] Where we are headed

[Michael Snow]

Daniel Mayer wrote:

>--- Michael Snow <wikipedia at earthlink.net> wrote:
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>>One 
>>use of interest to us is that if a company has a charitable giving 
>>program in which employees can have an amount withheld from their 
>>paychecks to the charity of their choice, the company would need the 
>>charity's EIN. I'm not aware of any serious problem for a nonprofit 
>>publishing this number (the American Red Cross publishes theirs on their 
>>website). In fact, I've suggested putting ours out there in order to 
>>make it easier for companies to add us to gift-matching programs, but 
>>I'm not aware that this has been done yet.
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>Our EIN has been on the foundation wiki for some time now:
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>http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Deductibility_of_donations
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>Of course, that whole set of pages needs to be re-done so finding things like that are easy.
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Thanks for pointing me in the right direction, I'm glad to know that 
this did get done after all. I agree about reworking the site as well. 
One of the Communications committee's plans, which I need to do more 
work on, is trying to develop a better idea of what should actually be 
on the Foundation website as opposed to being on Meta.

--Michael Snow