Re: [Wikimedia-l] The 2016-2017 Wikimedia Foundation Annual Report

2018-01-23 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, As a document targeting donors it is effective. For me, it is indeed an accomplished selly thingie that does not connect. It is all Wikipedia and Wikipedia is not that shiny. It is a community where infighting is common, where external knowledge and tools are seen as problematic because they

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The 2016-2017 Wikimedia Foundation Annual Report

2018-01-19 Thread Lisa Gruwell
Thanks for the question, James. Performance benchmarking for the Wikimedia Endowment is described in the Investment Policy, which can be found here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Endowment#Endowment_Investment_Policy On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 1:00 AM, James Salsman wrote: > Thanks, Za

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The 2016-2017 Wikimedia Foundation Annual Report

2018-01-19 Thread James Salsman
Thanks, Zack. Does anyone know what interest rates the $56 million short-term and $6 million long-term investments earn? Are the CFO and the Endowment benchmarking their performance against commercial institutional endowment-grade mutual funds? I recently wrote the below to regulators; I hope it