[Wikimedia-l] [Fundraising 2013] Wikimedia France stepping back from payment processing

[Christophe Henner]

Hey Dan,

Sure : http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconnaissance_d'utilit%C3%A9_publique
and http://vosdroits.service-public.fr/associations/F1131.xhtml

In France all associations are, a priori, charities. The french fiscal
services can withdraw that status for many reasons. One of them is if
they believe the money raised using tax deductibility is not
supporting french citizen/culture enough. Once you have that
recognition, this charity status is much much harder to remove.

We've been planning to ask for that status in 2013 for few month,
Sébastien Baijard, our fundraiser, had that as one of his goal when
hired. We didn't before because the process is a really complex one.
We actually rewrote our bylaws in 2010 and 2011 to best fit RUP needs
(it includes information about board member being forbiden to get
paid, the rules for employees to run for board once they leave their
paid job in the association, and other informations like that).

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask
--
Christophe


On 30 April 2013 12:37, Dan Rosenthal <swatjester at gmail.com> wrote:
> Christophe,
>
> About this "reconnaissance d'utilite publique" or "supercharity" concept;
> is there a link to an analysis (preferable) or even just the text of the
> law/provision/regulation? Even one in French only would be OK, I'm just
> curious to know more about how it works in practice.
>
> -Dan
>
> Dan Rosenthal
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 1:00 PM, Fae <faewik at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 29 April 2013 21:28, Christophe Henner
>> <christophe.henner at wikimedia.fr> wrote:
>> ...
>> > In face of that situation, Wikimedia France board has asked WMF to
>> > stop being a payment processor in 2013
>>
>> Hi Christophe, thank you for giving this difficult decision some
>> suitable context, and for doing so openly and promptly.
>>
>> Could someone advise me, is there an official table on meta showing
>> the current list of Chapters with payment processing agreements in
>> place for the 2013 fund raiser?
>>
>> Independently of any hat I happen to be wearing, I am planning on
>> putting aside some volunteer time to examine the
>> "admin:fundraising:program" ratio for our organizations over the next
>> few months, so it makes sense to ensure this is achieved for the
>> current payment processors, rather than just those organizations that
>> are "easy" to find the figures for or come forward spontaneously. I
>> would support other sensible top level performance indicators should
>> they be identified and become available soon, FDC members may have
>> a view on what might work well as the "top 5" indicators. Hopefully at
>> least the admin ratio can be publicly shared before October this year to
>> help foster a pragmatic discussion on simple dashboards and governance.
>>
>> I'm hoping that the WMF can set a lead by publishing a calculation of
>> admin ratio for themselves. ;-)
>>
>> PS staff salaries are not all automatically 'admin', I hope we can
>> agree that some
>> program activities are entirely justifiably supported by paid staff
>> and contractors.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Fae
>> --
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