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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 organizations are developing technical options like mobile apps and donate buttons to attract donors around the globe. Common online and mobile fundraising methods include online donation pages, text to give, mobile silent auctions, and peer to peer fundraising. Since 2016, online giving has grown by 17% in the United States.
I also love this banner, and hope something like it can be part of regular campaigns, even if it is not the best performing. It is informative, sets context well, and welcomes readers into the community of practice and mutual support that makes all of this possible: the way you might a family member. – SJ + 22:02, 29 November 2022 (UTC)
Donations can take up to 90 days to be processed. [2] WAP donations: Mobile donating can also occur through a mobile WAP website. Cell phone users can access WAP donation pages by sending a specific text message to a designated keyword and receiving a link to the page in response, or by navigating to the page from a referring site.
Wikipedia and its fellow sites are hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organisation based in the United States. Sites like Google or Yahoo are hosted on thousands of servers, with thousands of employees; we have around 800 servers and around 350 staff, and cover our costs through donations—almost all from members of the public.
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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.
This practice continues with some individuals, such as "CNN Hero" Sal Dimiceli, and service organizations like the Jaycees. With the rise of more social peer-to-peer processes , many charities are moving away from the charitable model, adopting a more direct donor-to-recipient approach.