[Foundation-l] Donor comments?

Fri Nov 19 21:34:52 UTC 2010

On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Michael Snow <wikipedia at frontier.com>wrote:

> On 11/19/2010 12:12 PM, Keegan Peterzell wrote:
> > On 11/19/2010 12:33 PM, Renata St wrote:
> >> Thanks Sara. I was looking for that thinking that somebody already asked
> the
> >> q.
> >> That is so weird.... I would have never thought it would reduce
> >> donations....
> >>
> >> Another q: are you going to have matching donations? If yes, I will wait
> to
> >> make mine. If not, I'll contribute now.
> >>
> >> Renata
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> > We absolutely take matching donations, more information can be found on
> > the WMF website itself:
> >
> > http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate/Match_Your_Gift/en
> >
> > Thank you for your questions!
> I think there's some confusion here, I assume Renata was referring to
> having an organization that would match all donations for a certain day
> or week, as has happened in some of our past fundraisers. That link is
> information for people whose employers have a gift-matching program as
> one of their employee benefits, which can cover donations made at any
> time, even if they are not made during the current contributions campaign.
>
> --Michael Snow

Michael, you are correct. My employer does not have gift matching but in the
past I always waited to see if WMF would get some sponsor to match donations
for a particular day.

Renata