Donors donate based on perceived value received. End of story.
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On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 7:07 PM, James Salsman jsals...@gmail.com wrote:
donors who expect the Foundation to prepare for contingency
James,
While your statistical comments were well-informed and helpful, your
comments in this thread are less so, and your frustrated approach - while
presuming
James,
I forgot that you are not able to edit Meta. I will migrate the relevant
parts of the discussion here to the wiki, since a wiki is a useful place to
break down ideas and refactor solutions; but please feel free to continue
posting thoughts to the list.
On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 3:25 PM,
I forgot that you are not able to edit Meta.
Because I was accused of violating the research policy by a staff
member who admitted some months later that there was no research
policy.
I will migrate the relevant
parts of the discussion here to the wiki, since a wiki is a useful place to
Hi James,
How do you see the fiduciary responsibilities of the board playing into
fundraising targets? Are you suggesting the Board has a duty to raise as
much money as possible? I'm also curious why you highlight deliberately
slowing fundraising despite the 32% increase in revenue goals for the
I think raising a lot more money because its possible to raise a lot more
money is a for-profit mentality; the WMF has been actually narrowing its
scope, in the understanding that it can't solve all problems or be all
things, and it makes a lot of sense to me to raise only what it already
knows
How do you see the fiduciary responsibilities of the board playing into
fundraising targets?
The employees of the board share their fiduciary responsibilities.
Are you suggesting the Board has a duty to raise as
much money as possible?
No. When actual fundraising far exceeded expectations,
Costs don't scale linearly with pageviews. Nor do donations,
especially when you consider that much of that growth in pageviews now
comes from the 'Global South' (where people generally have less
disposable income to donate) and from mobile devices (which we don't
really fundraise on,
SJ,
Thank you for your reply:
Fundraising targets have been set to match our projected needs for the
year, for the past few years.
Does the very recent abandonment of several aspects of the Strategic
Plan, after the July 2012-3 Annual Plan goal was set at $46.1 million,
which itself was
James,
the Chief Revenue Officer reported that significant increases in
fundraising would be very difficult
I cannot speak for what Zack was thinking -- but I can tell you - as a
member of the fundraising technology team - that I was shocked, utterly
amazed, and astounded at how successful
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