Hoi,
Raising revenue is done in one way. We ask people, they give.
We tell everybody that the WMF is a charity in the USA.. FINE but it is
also a charity in many other countries for instance in the Netherlands.
Increasing the amount of money in the Netherlands can be done in many ways.
The chapter may help but there are other ways as well. To do this well. you
have to be aware about how things are done in a country. Given that it is
possible to have gifts to charities fully tax deductible, it is relevant to
look after such details.. I know about them and I do not mind to help.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 11 June 2015 at 11:49, Ilario Valdelli <valdelli(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi, the idea is interesting, I am a volunteer in same
grant committees of
WMF and I can only agree to have a more comparable financial sheets (mainly
in the use of the currencies).
But I have some concerns.
a) I hope that this project will produce more comparable financial sheets
but without leaving the context were chapters are working. An example is
the cost per day of an employee because if there is a standardization of
these financial data but "out of the context" the risk is that the
financial statements can generate not realistic data. It means that the
total costs of the staff in a country with high salaries cannot be
comparable with another having lower salaries without a "balanced" data.
b) I really hope that you will push also the addition of the relevance of
the results of the fundraising in each country, because we always think
that the cow produces milk, we never think that we have to harvest the cow
to produce its milk!!!! The financial statements of a chapters out of the
context of the WMF fundraising in each country limits a lot the real value
of the costs.
Regards
On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 12:15 AM, Michael Guss <mguss(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
Hi folks,
We are the Finance Fellows, a multicultural team consisting of 4 young
professionals. We are happy to introduce a 6-month movement-wide project
that focuses on the consistency of how we operate, which is explained
further in this announcement.
*But here's some information about us*:
Arda [User:Melmas_(WMF)] <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Melmas_(WMF)> is
from Turkey. He holds a BA in Economics.
Lene [User:Lgillis_(WMF)]
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Lgillis_(WMF)> is from Belgium.
She
holds a Master's degree in Applied Economics
and a Master's degree in
Business Communication.
Seyi [User:Oolukoya_(WMF)]
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Oolukoya_(WMF)> is from Nigeria.
She
holds a Master's in International Business
and a BSc in Economics.
Walter [User:Wagsegura_(WMF)]
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Wagsegura_(WMF)> is from
Nicaragua.
He holds a BA in Applied Economics.
*About the project "Movement-wide financial report"*
Driven by the Wikimedia Foundation's guiding principles of transparency
and
accountability, our goal is to gather data and
develop systematic metrics
in order to provide a better understanding of financial statements. The
aim
is to help make financial data and statements
more consistent and
comparable across all Wikimedia Chapters, Thematic Organizations, and the
Wikimedia Foundation, to the benefit of the whole movement.
The idea of this project comes from the WMF Board of Trustee's Audit
Committee and is supported by the Wikimedia Foundation. An initial
quantitative
analysis of Wikimedia Chapters and Thematic Organizations
<
https://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Chapters_in_Numbers>
demonstrated
at Wikimania 2013 by Michal Buczyński (User:Aegis Maelstrom)
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Aegis_Maelstrom>, highlighted the
importance of meaningful, obtainable and unified data.
The Finance Fellows have been formed by WMF to spearhead this project.
The
intention of this project is to enable Wikimedia
Chapters and Thematic
Organizations to benchmark activities and costs in a consistent way. We
will begin by gathering comparable quantitative financial data about
Wikimedia Chapters and Thematic Organizations. Our findings will later be
released movement-wide, on Meta-Wiki.
Please note that this is not an audit process. We are simply collecting
the
data and developing global metrics. The metric is
an objective
measurement
that will enable data to be consistent,
meaningful and comparable among
the
Wikimedia Chapters, Thematic Organizations, and
the Wikimedia Foundation.
We will build on existing data sets and reach out to Chapters and
Thematic
Organizations if further information is required.
After processing the
gathered information, we will confirm the data with each organization.
In the long run, we envision that this project could be replicated
annually. In this attempt to enable Wikimedia Chapters, Thematic
Organizations, and the Wikimedia Foundation to help make the movement's
financial data more consistent, we rely on the data provided by the
organizations. We believe that there is enough data available to make a
new
attempt on capturing the movement's finances
as a whole.
A meta page <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement-wide_Financial_Report>
was
created for the project, in order to make the information accessible to
everyone and create a space for discussion and/or suggestions. We
strongly
encourage you to share with us what types of
additional information is
desired.
And of course: This is all an experiment! If it does not work, we will
try
to apply a modified 'agile' process by
iterating, repeating, and trying
again based on the feedback we are getting. If this does not seem right,
or
if it appears we are missing something obvious,
please let us know!
Thank you,
WMF Finance Fellows (User:WMF Finance Fellows)
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:WMF_Finance_Fellows>
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