[Foundation-l] Three fundraising job openings

[Aphaia]

This reminds me a talk which I had with a researcher and FLOSS guy recently.

He said he hesitated to think himself as a Wikipedian, despite of his
occasional editing on Wikipedia (I forgot either as an anon or a
registered user). I asked why, and he replied "I don't commit
Wikipedia so much. I haven't contributed (money, in this context) to
the project". He continued he thought he could call himself as a
supporter of FSF, since he regularly contributed to. I explained we
rather thought (registered) editors as Wikipedians (or whatever) and
donation is no sole form of contribution, but I found this idea
interesting and very excited to see the idea to cultivate the
community of donors.

Cheers,

In Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 6:22 PM, Florence Devouard <Anthere9 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> effe iets anders wrote:
>  > Maybe a question with an obvious reply, in that case please forgive my
>  > ignorance. Could you (Erik, Michael, or anyone else who spotted the answer
>  > already) elaborate a bit on what is meant by "community giving"? It sounds
>  > to me like it is asking the editing community to give more money, but that
>  > would strike me a bit as odd, as my amateuristic expectation would be that
>  > most of the fundraising money is coming from the visitors, not as much from
>  > the editors.
>
>  :-)
>  It recovers essentially fundraiser made through the website (eg, small
>  donations by many donors).
>  It comes from a definition of "community" which is larger than the one
>  we are usually accustomed to. But essentially, it means "every reader of
>  our projects who might care send 10 dollars via paypal".
>
>  Ant
>
>
>
>
>  >
>  > Finally, I hope very much that this will finally lead to a better strategy
>  > with respect to Europe, where quite some chances have been missed in the
>  > past imho (with respect to paying methods for example), so I hope that the
>  > person who gets this job does not only speak at least one other language to
>  > understand what translating is about, but also has experience with
>  > fundraising in at least two continents (but I am afraid this will be a tough
>  > skill set to find :) )
>  >
>  > For the rest I agree with Nathan, and I'll shut up with my doubts here, as
>  > we will have to work with and trust on the expert staff members we have
>  > asked to do this part of the job for us. What I do hope is that volunteers
>  > will remain to be actively involved in the process.
>  >
>  > Best regards,
>  >
>  > Lodewijk
>  >
>  > 2008/4/18, Michael Snow <wikipedia at verizon.net>:
>  >> Dan Rosenthal wrote:
>  >>> I don't disagree with you. Though I think that starting with one and
>  >>> slowly work their way might be an alternative, I don't see anything
>  >>> wrong with three fundraising staff members. I'm just saying we don't
>  >>> even have them yet, so it's a bit early to speculate on them.
>  >>>
>  >> For the major gifts position and the community giving position we're
>  >> looking for a rather different set of skills, because the approaches
>  >> required are quite distinct. The skillsets aren't likely to overlap much
>  >> in one person, so it doesn't make sense to try to shoehorn
>  >> responsibility for both into the first plausible candidate. That is in a
>  >> sense the staffing approach that has gotten Wikimedia into no end of
>  >> problems in the past.
>  >>
>  >> I expect Sue may fill one or another of these positions more quickly,
>  >> depending on the applicant pool. But effectively moving forward with a
>  >> diversified fundraising strategy requires all of them in the end.
>  >>
>  >>
>  >> --Michael Snow
>  >>
>  >>
>  >>
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