[Foundation-l] Three fundraising job openings

Fri Apr 18 09:22:42 UTC 2008

effe iets anders wrote:
> Maybe a question with an obvious reply, in that case please forgive my
> ignorance. Could you (Erik, Michael, or anyone else who spotted the answer
> already) elaborate a bit on what is meant by "community giving"? It sounds
> to me like it is asking the editing community to give more money, but that
> would strike me a bit as odd, as my amateuristic expectation would be that
> most of the fundraising money is coming from the visitors, not as much from
> the editors.

:-)
It recovers essentially fundraiser made through the website (eg, small 
donations by many donors).
It comes from a definition of "community" which is larger than the one 
we are usually accustomed to. But essentially, it means "every reader of 
our projects who might care send 10 dollars via paypal".

Ant

> 
> Finally, I hope very much that this will finally lead to a better strategy
> with respect to Europe, where quite some chances have been missed in the
> past imho (with respect to paying methods for example), so I hope that the
> person who gets this job does not only speak at least one other language to
> understand what translating is about, but also has experience with
> fundraising in at least two continents (but I am afraid this will be a tough
> skill set to find :) )
> 
> For the rest I agree with Nathan, and I'll shut up with my doubts here, as
> we will have to work with and trust on the expert staff members we have
> asked to do this part of the job for us. What I do hope is that volunteers
> will remain to be actively involved in the process.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Lodewijk
> 
> 2008/4/18, Michael Snow <wikipedia at verizon.net>:
>> Dan Rosenthal wrote:
>>> I don't disagree with you. Though I think that starting with one and
>>> slowly work their way might be an alternative, I don't see anything
>>> wrong with three fundraising staff members. I'm just saying we don't
>>> even have them yet, so it's a bit early to speculate on them.
>>>
>> For the major gifts position and the community giving position we're
>> looking for a rather different set of skills, because the approaches
>> required are quite distinct. The skillsets aren't likely to overlap much
>> in one person, so it doesn't make sense to try to shoehorn
>> responsibility for both into the first plausible candidate. That is in a
>> sense the staffing approach that has gotten Wikimedia into no end of
>> problems in the past.
>>
>> I expect Sue may fill one or another of these positions more quickly,
>> depending on the applicant pool. But effectively moving forward with a
>> diversified fundraising strategy requires all of them in the end.
>>
>>
>> --Michael Snow
>>
>>
>>
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