Re: Anonymous contributions WAS: PostgreSQL derivatives

All,

> > We can do anonymous-only contributions, but that is going to certainly
> > limit contributions.  I am not sure how a company contribution will be
> > explained to the accounting staff if it has to be anonymous.

As someone with three years professional fundraising and one of a few who
do the large-gift fundraising for PostgreSQL here in the US, donated
corporate funds come out of a company's marketing department.  As Mal
Warwick, head of the Bay Area's largest fundraising consulting firm says,
"Companies' charitible giving budgets are generally less than 1% of their
marketing budgets."  Companies want to stick their names on things.

So, requiring cash donations to be anonymous would basically cut our
corporate gifts (70% of all money we get) by 99%.

--
--Josh

Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL @ Sun
San Francisco