On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Guillaume Paumier <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Gregory Kohs<[email protected]> wrote:> A > board member (or volunteer, or anyone who goes around and asks > > someone to donate money to a cause) has some leverage if they can > > answer: « I donated $2 million because I think this cause is worthy. > > How much will you donate? » > > > > How unfortunate for Matt Halprin. As far as I know, it was his employer, > > Omidyar Network, that made the big donation, not Halprin himself > personally. > > Simply replace my conclusion by « I had my company donate $2 million > because I managed to convince them that this cause is worthy. How much > will you or your company donate? » Fairly huge difference, when you put it that way. I'm still untwisting the details trying to figure out who's getting paid what by whom for what, though. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
