From jkominek@miranda.org Wed Jun 14 08:50:37 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list llg-board); Wed, 14 Jun 2006 08:50:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from miranda.org ([216.93.242.2]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with smtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1FqXdY-0001ey-Ci for llg-board@lojban.org; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 08:50:35 -0700 Received: (qmail 10892 invoked by uid 534); 14 Jun 2006 08:54:19 -0600 Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 08:54:19 -0600 From: Jay F Kominek To: llg-board@lojban.org Subject: [llg-board] Re: Raising money: we should tell people how donations will be spent Message-ID: <20060614145419.GJ23763@miranda.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-Spam-Score: -2.5 (--) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-archive-position: 121 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: llg-board-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: llg-board-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: jkominek@miranda.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: llg-board@lojban.org X-list: llg-board On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 04:30:23PM +0200, Arnt Richard Johansen wrote: > It is common knowledge that people are more likely to give money to an > organisation if they know how that money will be spent. The current > Donations page[1] is somewhat lacking in this regard. > > Therefore, I'd like to add something like the following blurb to the page: Whatever text you like is fine with me. > One specific point: the page > http://www.lojban.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=The+Complete+Lojban+Language > says that "We acknowledge all donations over $250 in accordance with IRS > regulations, and other donations by request." Now, why on Earth would we > turn down a donation just because it is less than $250? IIRC we have > hardly ever received donations above that sum. Hm? I think you've misunderstood this. It isn't a matter of turning them down. We just don't automatically write a receipt unless it is over the $250 limit the IRS has set, instead they have to ask for a receipt if they want one. -- Jay Kominek