Hi Lisa, Thanks for the reply, I never doubted it's WM event -- it just majorly surprised me and I still have a bunch of questions:
1) is this the first fundraising event? I have never heard of them before... 2) what's going to happen at that event and why should I go? Invitation had not a peep about that... 3) why there is nothing about it anywhere? 4) when did this policy change come about? I know Sue was quite adamantly against it... Thanks! Renata On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 8:39 PM, Lisa Gruwell <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Renata St and Dan- > > I just wanted to assure you that there is no change in fundraising > strategy. WMF raises that great majority of its funds from online > donations, with most of them being under USD $30. > > We also raise approximately $6 million from foundations and major donors. > The guidance for this comes from the Revenue Plan that was developed in the > five year strategic plan (page 17): > > “In addition to seeking increased support from community donations, > Wikimedia will continue to raise limited but critical funds from > foundations, major donors, and licensing and other business partnerships.” > > Yes, the event at the Dillion Gallery is our. That said, we focus the > lion’s share of our work on the online donation model. > > Thank you, > > Lisa Seitz Gruwell > > > > On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 5:30 PM, Dan Collins <[email protected]> wrote: > > > What are you talking about? A quick Google reveals no evidence that the > > Wikimedia Foundation and the Dillon Gallery have any association, apart > > from we have a wiki page on them. Who is the mail from - WMF or a > chapter? > > Do you often receive snail mail from them? If not, do you have any > evidence > > that you haven't fallen victim to an elaborate scam? What is an > > "invitation(?)" and how does it differ from an invitation? > > > > To borrow your TL;DR, In short: huh??? > > > > > > On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 8:09 PM, Renata St <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Hi, so I got this snail mail with an invitation(?) to an event(?) at > > Dillon > > > Gallery on Oct 1 for a suggested(?) donation of $500... and it left me > > > confused more than anything else. > > > > > > What's the event about? I can't find anything anywhere else (not that I > > > looked very hard). I understand it's a fundraising function, but > besides > > > that? If I go there, what am I going to get (other than Cocktails & > Hors > > > d'oeuvres)? > > > > > > What if I don't do the suggested donation? > > > > > > On a whole different level, since when does Wikimedia do fundraising > > > events? I thought it was a policy to abandon attempts to gain major > > donors > > > and to focus on the $10 donations? When did that change? > > > > > > In short: huh??? > > > > > > R. > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Wikimedia-l mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
