Re: Anonymous contributions WAS: PostgreSQL derivatives

Josh Berkus wrote:
> 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%.

Yes, that was my assumption too.

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