Lisa, The article cites no exact reason for the longevity of Wikipedia specifically, but does talk about passion to a mission: http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2013/03/yuri-milner-google-facebook-100-years
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 1:52 PM, phoebe ayers <phoebe.w...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 1:47 PM, Lisa Gruwell <lgruw...@wikimedia.org > >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 > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > -- *Victor Grigas* Storyteller <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Knv6D6Thi0> Wikimedia Foundation vgri...@wikimedia.org +1 (415) 839-6885 x 6773 149 New Montgomery Street 6th floor San Francisco, CA 94105 https://donate.wikimedia.org/ _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
