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Recurring donations seem like a good idea. Long-term, Liberapay might be worth consideration as a very mission-aligned platform for recurring donations; it could bring in new donors, since people browse it. Finding a donation request when you are looking for one isn't annoying. Q3. I do find the standard banners extremely annoying.
The Endowment received $13.4M in new donations during FY 2023-2024 and had $2.4M in investment income. Funding to support Wikimedia projects: The Endowment provided $2.9M in funding in FY 2023–2024 to support technical innovation on the Wikimedia projects: $1.5M for MediaWiki upgrades, $600,000 for Abstract Wikipedia, $500,000 for efforts ...
As 2022 came to a close, a Request for Comment (RfC) on English Wikipedia proposed changes to the messaging of year-end fundraising banners. The Wikimedia Foundation accepted the guidance provided by the close of the RfC, and established a co-creation page to seek volunteer input on banner messaging from community members.
Fundraising plays a central role in many presidential campaigns, and is a key factor in determining the viability of candidates. Money raised is applied for the salaries of non-volunteers in the campaign, transportation, campaign materials, media advertisements and other contingencies.
A note on the separate status of the Wikimedia Endowment. The Wikimedia Endowment, held from 2016 to 2023 by the Tides Foundation and now a standalone 501(c)(3) nonprofit, is not and has never been included in Wikimedia Foundation assets, even though Wikimedia Foundation fundraising staff solicit donations to the Endowment and the Wikimedia Foundation itself made donations to the Endowment.
It is a common mistake to either over-burden existing donors with funding requests or under-serve them to the point of disengagement. For effective fundraising to occur, the systems and operations in place, including reporting, should be organized to ensure that both new and existing donors are not just satisfied, but delighted to support.
Target (NYSE: TGT) Q2 2024 Earnings Call Aug 21, 2024, 8:00 a.m. ET. Contents: ... Our team helped to organize and deliver donations of critical supplies to their neighbors, while helping to clear ...
Wikipedia depends on donations (there is literally no other meaningful revenue source) and donations go to support Wikipedia both directly (software, hardware, bandwith, operations engineers) and indirectly (chapter activities of all kinds such as local press relationships, GLAM activities, new editor recruitment, etc.).