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Wikipedia Gets Another $3 Mil from Sloan Foundation
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Wikipedia doesn't run on love and good vibes. It takes money to keep the Encyclopedia Brittanica of the millenium running. The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation–which also gives out a lot of money to filmmakers–just donated another $3 mil to Wikimedia ...

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Gregory Kohs
7/11/11 3:41pm
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So, the Sloan Foundation is sending $3 million to a “non-profit” organization that spends on program services only 43 cents of every donated dollar, which earns the Wikimedia folks ONE STAR (out of four) from Charity Navigator, on the important measure of “organizational efficiency”. Now we’re suppose to applaud that stupid misuse of funds?
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