On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 1:47 PM, Lisa Gruwell <[email protected]>wrote:
> My team here at the foundation has begun to do a little leg work so that we > are ready to go, if the Board should decide to pursue an endowment. We > have begun to "tip our toes" into the world of planned giving and have had > conversations with some of our major donors about it. At this point, the > planned gifts are for general support, but our strategy would likely be to > direct these types of gifts to an endowment, if we go that route. We also > set up a simple page on the foundation site about planned giving or "Legacy > Gifts," as we are calling it. > http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Legacy_Gift > > So far, the conversations have gone well. There is an interesting > challenge in that donors have to be convinced that the organization is > going to be relevant in 20 or 30 years (or in the case of an endowment – > forever). I'd love to hear your best arguments for why that this true. (Or > maybe we could devote some thinking to this during the next strategic > planning process). > > Best, > Lisa Gruwell Thanks Lisa -- now *that's* a good question :) I added a quick section to the endowment page, if people want to discuss there: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Endowment#Will_we_be_relevant_in....3F -- phoebe _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
