[Wikimedia-l] Dillon gallery?

[Lisa Gruwell]

Hi Renata St and Dan-

I just wanted to assure you that there is no change in fundraising
strategy. WMF raises that great majority of its funds from online
donations, with most of them being under USD $30.

We also raise approximately $6 million from foundations and major donors.
The guidance for this comes from the Revenue Plan that was developed in the
five year strategic plan (page 17):

 “In addition to seeking increased support from community donations,
Wikimedia will continue to raise limited but critical funds from
foundations, major donors, and licensing and other business partnerships.”

Yes, the event at the Dillion Gallery is our. That said, we focus the
lion’s share of our work on the online donation model.

Thank you,

Lisa Seitz Gruwell



On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 5:30 PM, Dan Collins <en.wp.st47 at gmail.com> wrote:

> What are you talking about? A quick Google reveals no evidence that the
> Wikimedia Foundation and the Dillon Gallery have any association, apart
> from we have a wiki page on them. Who is the mail from - WMF or a chapter?
> Do you often receive snail mail from them? If not, do you have any evidence
> that you haven't fallen victim to an elaborate scam? What is an
> "invitation(?)" and how does it differ from an invitation?
>
> To borrow your TL;DR, In short: huh???
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 8:09 PM, Renata St <renatawiki at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi, so I got this snail mail with an invitation(?) to an event(?) at
> Dillon
> > Gallery on Oct 1 for a suggested(?) donation of $500... and it left me
> > confused more than anything else.
> >
> > What's the event about? I can't find anything anywhere else (not that I
> > looked very hard). I understand it's a fundraising function, but besides
> > that? If I go there, what am I going to get (other than Cocktails & Hors
> > d'oeuvres)?
> >
> > What if I don't do the suggested donation?
> >
> > On a whole different level, since when does Wikimedia do fundraising
> > events? I thought it was a policy to abandon attempts to gain major
> donors
> > and to focus on the $10 donations? When did that change?
> >
> > In short: huh???
> >
> > R.
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