2009/8/27 Anthony <[email protected]>: > 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.
I agree, there is a big difference between spending someone else's money and spending your own. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
