[Wikimedia-l] Dillon gallery?

[Lisa Gruwell]

As far as I know, WMF has done one or two small fundraising events most
years.  It is a minor part of overall fundraising strategy.  We have some
donors who like to give at social events, instead of online, and these
events are for largely initiated and organized by them.  They have all been
held at fairly small (usually donated) venues. I don't see this as a change
in policy.  The revenue plan calls for us to have online fundraising as our
primary strategy and major donors (who typically give through events),
foundations, etc. as a secondary revenue stream.  The fundraising team's
work is in line with that direction.


On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 11:19 AM, HaeB <haebwiki at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2013/8/30 Renata St <renatawiki at gmail.com>:
> > 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...
>
> FWIW, here is a Signpost article about a previous fundraising event:
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2010-10-18/News_and_notes#Wikipedia_community_gathers_for_fundraising_event
>
> > 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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