[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia (Foundation) endowment

[Victor Grigas]

Lisa,

The article cites no exact reason for the longevity of Wikipedia
specifically, but does talk about passion to a mission:
http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2013/03/yuri-milner-google-facebook-100-years


On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 1:52 PM, phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 1:47 PM, Lisa Gruwell <lgruwell at wikimedia.org
> >wrote:
>
> > My team here at the foundation has begun to do a little leg work so that
> we
> > are ready to go, if the Board should decide to pursue an endowment.  We
> > have begun to "tip our toes" into the world of planned giving and have
> had
> > conversations with some of our major donors about it.  At this point, the
> > planned gifts are for general support, but our strategy would likely be
> to
> > direct these types of gifts to an endowment, if we go that route.  We
> also
> > set up a simple page on the foundation site about planned giving or
> "Legacy
> > Gifts," as we are calling it.
> > http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Legacy_Gift
> >
> > So far, the conversations have gone well.  There is an interesting
> > challenge in that donors have to be convinced that the organization is
> > going to be relevant in 20 or 30 years (or in the case of an endowment –
> > forever).  I'd love to hear your best arguments for why that this true.
> (Or
> > maybe we could devote some thinking to this during the next strategic
> > planning process).
> >
> > Best,
> > Lisa Gruwell
>
>
> Thanks Lisa -- now *that's* a good question :) I added a quick section to
> the endowment page, if people want to discuss there:
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Endowment#Will_we_be_relevant_in....3F
>
> -- phoebe
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