Hello Abhishek, thank you for your suggestion. The 'in-kind' donation idea, while good actually has a small glitch. Anything that comes to the Chapter would be considered an asset and be kept in a certain place physically. Moving it out to a different place becomes a problem. Anyway, thanks for the suggestion. Do spread the word about our fundraiser though.
On 2/7/13, Abhishek Suryawanshi <i.abhishek.suryawan...@gmail.com> wrote: > Nice initiative. > > It would be great to have 'in-kind' donations option along with monetary > option. > > i.e If someone wants to donate projector,room,laptop etc in-kind, It may be > easy for donor also as well as Chapter to receive it. This will also make > sure Tax money is saved from both ends. > > > > Just two cents from my side. > > > > Regards, > Abhishek Suryawanshi, > > On Behalf of Wikipedia Club Pune > > > > > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Karthik Nadar <karthik...@wikimedia.in> > To: Wikimedia India Community list <wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> > Cc: > Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2013 21:19:57 +0530 > Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India needs your support: Our First > Fundraiser > *Dear all,* > * > * > *On the second anniversary of the Chapter, we made public our intention of > running our first fundraiser. Going ahead with the first phase of this > plan, we will be running a central site notice on the chapter website for a > period of two calendar months starting 1 February, 2013. In the second > phase of this plan, we aim to approach high networth individuals and > corporates in the month of March 2013. This will be done using personal and > professional networks of current and past EC members, staff, volunteers > among others.* > * > Suggestions, help and support from the community on what we can do to > ensure success of this fundraiser are welcome. Every drop counts :) > > Donations can be made by Online Bank Transfer (NEFT/RTGS) or by sending us > a Cheque through snail mail. We are unable to accept card payments at this > current time. Link to the donation page on our website: > http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Donate > > Thanking you, > Executive Committee, > Wikimedia India. > > *Reasoning* (From our public statement on 4 January, 2013) > > A lot of people may ask why the chapter needs a fundraiser when it has > access to WMF funding. The answer is, we are still ineligible for FDC of > WMF (we hope to be eligible for the second round of funding in 2013) and > would need to rely on grants, spending of which is restricted by the WMF. > Since formation, the chapter has relied heavily on the Executive Committee > to take on the burden of running the show. In an ideal world, the EC would > like to take on the role of guiding the chapter rather than actually be > responsible for operations after two years of incorporation, which should > be best done by professionals rather than volunteers in their spare time. > > The chapter has hired an employee (Sowmyan Tirumurti, our Executive > Manager) as well as plans to lease its own office premises in Bangalore. We > will need the help of those volunteers who are in a position to support us. > It could be a small individual donation or in the form of a corporate > donation from an institution. A small token of support from you could go a > long way in helping us achieving our goals of furthering the movement in > India.* > * > * > * > * > > -- > Thanks and regards, > Karthik Nadar, > Secretary, Wikimedia India Chapter. > -- Srikanth Ramakrishnan Member of the Executive Committee Wikimedia Chapter [India] Donate to the Wikimedia India Chapter today<http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Donations> _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
