Loco Council, or an alternative idea of what it could be :)

[Matthias Urlichs]

On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 16:24:05 +0100, Yann wrote:

> But when you give money to
> wikipedia, do you bother saying "I want this money to be used only by
> wikipedia france" or "this money should only be used by the wikipedia
> common project"? No, you give the money to "the wikipedia project" which
> then decides how to spend it the best way...

Sorry, but the real world does not work that way.

Specifically: if you want a tax break on your donations, you *need* a
local organization which has the appropriate status. That organization has
to guarantee that the money is spent *only* for its tax-exempt cause and
that its spending benefits the community *in that country*.

Thus, a blanket organization which puts its money into a big melting pot,
to be spent however somebody who is not legally accountable to anybody in
that country, may work in some countries, but it will not work in general.

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