Lisa
Thanks anyway. Perhaps one of the members of the Board will comment, in
the interests of transparency.
Ronald
On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 8:57 PM, Lisa Gruwell <lgruwell(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
Sorry, I wasn't at the meeting, so I can't
speak to that.
On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 12:09 PM, Rogol Domedonfors <domedonfors(a)gmail.com
wrote:
> Lisa
> Thanks for that explanation. If it
had already been decided to
contribute
the $5M to the Endowment before the offer of
matching funds, then there
would be no appearance of the offer influencing the Board's decision.
Can
you confirm that was the case? But the main
point of my question to the
Board is to ask why they decided that placing this large sum into the
Endowment was more important than using it to support the work of the
volunteer community (whether or not the offer of matching funds was part
of
> that decision) directly. Can you throw any light on their reasons?
> Rudyard
> On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 6:38 PM, Lisa
Gruwell <lgruwell(a)wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
> > Just jumping in with a few
points of information regarding the
Endowment:
>
> > 1) I met with Lukas at
Wikimania regarding SRI and the endowment. As
> James
> > indicated, the endowment is invested through the Tides Foundation and
> this
> > is one of the areas of expertise. We have been looking at
environmental,
> social, and governance (ESG) ratings as well
as how funds perform
against
> > the benchmarks financially. We are going to be publishing more
> information
> > about this soon.
>
> > 2) Regarding the matching
grant, this funder has made large grants to
the
> Wikimedia Foundation for general support for
our annual work for
almost a
decade.
They have also now provided major support to the endowment.
They
> have provided generous support for our present work and our future
work.
> It is positive thing that this grant was
positioned as a matching
grant.
> > It doubles the impact of a portion of the contributions that our online
> > donors made this year. It is a great story that we are sharing with
> other
> > potential endowment donors. We are hoping to find another major donor
> (or
> > donors) that will match the $5 million for the endowment that is in the
> FY
> > 2017-18 annual plan as well.
>
> > Best,
> > Lisa
>
> > On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at
9:15 AM, James Heilman <jmh649(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> > > I have been send
further details. As expected Tides (who runs our
> > > endowment) has a strong philosophy around social justice.
> >
> > >
https://www.tides.org/
> >
> > > James
> >
> > > On Tue, Aug 22,
2017 at 11:01 AM, Cristian Consonni <
> cristian(a)balist.es>
> > > wrote:
> >
> > > > On
22/08/2017 17:03, James Heilman wrote:
> > > > > Andrea I agree completely that movement monies should be
invested
> > > inline
> > > > > with our values. We should not be invested in stuff that
promotes
> war
> > > or
> > > > > surveillance for example. I would image this is currently the
case
> > but
> > > > > would have to verify.
> > >
> > > > I
wholeheartedly agree with Andrea.
> > >
> > > > C
> > >
> > > >
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