Parallel to that question, is what happens to the endowment if the WMF is
wound up. This would be of some interest to possible donors.
In principle I am in favour of an endowment.
Cheers,
Peter
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From: "phoebe ayers" <phoebe.w...@gmail.com>
To: "Wikimedia Mailing List" <wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2013 10:52 PM
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia (Foundation) endowment
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
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