Interesting case of a low percentage of common sense. At the moment, I believe that none of our chapters publish figures or estimates for the ratio between admin, fundraising and admin work, even if we publish detailed annual reports. Personally, I don't feel we are in a strong position to be amused by inadequate reporting by other organizations when we are not clear on this ourselves.
It would be a great improvement to transparency if I could say, even roughly, whether my own chapter were spending 90%, 80% or 70% of our donated funds and grants on planned charitable outcomes, rather than having no figures, and having to defend the position of not knowing and finding reasons why we would never try to calculate it from the figures sitting in our reports. If it turns out that less than 70% of the money was being spent on the outcomes defined in our shared mission, this might encourage us to look rather carefully at exactly where the rest was going, don't you think? Thanks, Fae -- [email protected] http://j.mp/faewm Guide to email tags: http://j.mp/mfae _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
