Hi Russavia-
I haven't seen the specific comment from SJ that you are referencing, but I am guessing that he is referring to the Gift Aid percentage match, which used to be 20% and is now 25%. The 1% I mentioned is the processing fee WMF pays to the U.K. Fund for Charities for processing our donations. We most often see large donors asking about Gift Aid and that is why we set up the account, but it is not exclusively for large donations. We refer anyone who is wishing to add Gift Aid to their donation to our account with the U.K. Fund for Charities.
When I said "in country", I meant anyone wishing to give to the chapter, instead of WMF. Those donations stay with the chapter and do not come back to WMF. We should be able to provide some numbers around this when our donor services team comes up for air in January.
Thank you, Lisa
On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 12:33 AM, Russavia russavia.wikipedia@gmail.com wrote:
Lisa
On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 2:56 AM, Lisa Gruwell lgruwell@wikimedia.org wrote:
- When a U.K. donor is looking to add Gift Aid to their donation, we
process the donation through our account with the U.K. Fund for
Charities,
which charges 1% for this service and returns the donor data to WMF.
When
a donor is looking to donate in country, we direct them to the chapter.
Can you please confirm whether you are talking about large donors, or the every day type donors who keep Wikipedia free by clicking on the banners. The reason this is needed is that it contradicts what Sj has stated on the Board noticeboard, where a figure of 20% was mentioned for the nickel and dime donors (which come about by way of the banners, etc).
Can you also give some further information on how many of these "in country" donors the WMF has sent WMUK's way? And what $/£ amount would we be talking about here? And are funds from these "in country" donors funnelled back to the WMF?
Apologies if this is covered elsewhere.
Russavia