[Foundation-l] Fundraising committee?

[Michael Snow]

On 4/17/2011 9:07 PM, MZMcBride wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Someone pointed out to me that in 2006, the Wikimedia Board of Trustees
> approved a resolution to create a fundraising committee:
> <http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Fundraising_committee>.
>
> A few months later, it passed a subsequent resolution specifying the
> fundraising committee's membership:
> <http://wikimedia.org/wiki/Resolution:Fundraising_committee/Membership>.
>
> In 2010, the Board passed a resolution about fundraising principles:
> <http://wikimedia.org/wiki/Resolution:Wikimedia_fundraising_principles>.
>
> The history of the fundraising committee (and what happened to it) is what's
> confusing me. Did a subsequent resolution/motion abolish it? Was it simply
> disbanded (and is that possible with the force of a Board resolution behind
> it)? There are now fundraising staff, but I'm not quite sure how that
> happened or what happened to any type of committee/workforce.
The board passed a resolution redefining the committee system in 2009: 
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Wikimedia_Committees. 
That resolution defined all of the committees in operation at that time, 
and disbanded those that were no longer needed or inactive. The 
fundraising committee isn't mentioned specifically, but I'm sure it was 
no longer operational by that point.

While it may not have captured every committee that had been 
contemplated at some point previously, this resolution was intended as 
an "omnibus" resolution that would apply to all of the existing 
committees and establish a new base from which to develop the committee 
system. Additional committees have been formed since then, but I would 
consider all earlier committees dissolved unless their continued 
function was acknowledged in that resolution.

--Michael Snow