[Foundation-l] New Wikimedia Committees

Mon Jan 30 03:44:10 UTC 2006

Garion1000 wrote:

>On 1/30/06, Anthony DiPierro <wikilegal at inbox.org> wrote:
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>>On 1/29/06, Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com> wrote:
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>>>A proper executive director for the organization will have decades (yes,
>>>decades!) of experience at a major international public facing charity
>>>with a strong volunteer component.  An ideal candidate should have
>>>extensive experience at an executive level with: fundraising, regulatory
>>>compliance, international chapters, donor relations management,
>>>staffing, budgeting, etc.
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>>What kind of salary do you think someone like that is going to get?
>>You bring up the Red Cross as an example in another post, the top
>>executives at that organization make around half a million a year.
>>Hiring from the outside is probably going to be expensive, though if
>>there's no one competant on the inside it might be more expensive not
>>to do so.
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>That is indeed something to be considered carefully. It recently happened in
>the Netherlands when the salary of the chair person of the heart foundation
>was revealed. (which was a lot). He finally resigned and the heart
>foundation lost a whole lot of money (and good will) in their following
>fundraising activities. Not that I think wikimedia will ever pay as much as
>that though.
>
This is best overcome by making all salary arrangements public and 
easily accessible.  Salary arrangements include any perks that might be 
paid directly or indirectly.

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