Directory:Wikimedia Foundation/Grand Donors

The Grand Donors are individuals who contribute more than $1,000 of their own money to the Wikimedia Foundation. The 2007 fund drive to monetize the 2008 budget includes allocations of $182,000 for Mike Godwin and the Foundation's legal hassles; $201,000 to help all of the Board members with their travel to the new headquarters in the very expensive city of San Francisco; $509,000 for Sue Gardner and her executive office staff; and $699,000 for overall finance and administration. Only 4% of the Wikimedia budget goes toward "Program Services" which are supposed to be the inspirational intentions of any well-meaning non-profit agency.

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1. Tyko Strassen - $1,000
Mathematician (specializing in computer science), full professor at a university of applied sciences, teacher of different didactic courses (in German) for university professors, registered as a Swiss Engineer STV.

"I use wikipedia almost every day. Best project on earth - keep it up!"

2. Anonymous - $1,500
Who can be identified as such (sha1:338c3706b3f34653d195ee40a310f73d2fb52b5c), but only by himself.

3. Joichi "Joi" Ito - $1,000
An American-educated Japanese activist, entrepreneur, and venture capitalist. Ito is the chairman of the board of Creative Commons and the chairman of Six Apart Japan. He is on the board of Technorati, Digital Garage, WITNESS, Pia Corporation, Socialtext, and iCommons. But since he is not on the board of the Wikimedia Foundation, he is not entitled to be on the board of Wikia, Inc.

Haven't we seen you moblogging, Joi?