[Wikimedia-l] Dillon gallery?

[Renata St]

Hi Lisa,

Thanks for the reply, I never doubted it's WM event -- it just majorly
surprised me and I still have a bunch of questions:

1) is this the first fundraising event? I have never heard of them before...
2) what's going to happen at that event and why should I go? Invitation had
not a peep about that...
3) why there is nothing about it anywhere?
4) when did this policy change come about? I know Sue was quite adamantly
against it...

Thanks!
Renata


On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 8:39 PM, Lisa Gruwell <lgruwell at wikimedia.org>wrote:

> 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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