2013/8/30 Renata St <[email protected]>: > 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...
FWIW, here is a Signpost article about a previous fundraising event: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2010-10-18/News_and_notes#Wikipedia_community_gathers_for_fundraising_event > 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> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
