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Wikimedia Foundation 2012–13 Annual Report edit
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Ten years of sharing and learning edit
In 2013 the Wikimedia Foundation celebrated a decade of supporting Wikipedia, its sister projects, and a global community of tens of thousands of volunteer contributors. The free knowledge contributed by our community is accessed by over half a billion readers every month, in more than 280 languages. It takes a movement to make something this extraordinary happen. To celebrate our tenth year, we wanted to share some of the passionate voices of the people who make it happen.
Your support edit
The Wikimedia Foundation is supported the same way Wikipedia is written: with millions of contributions. That keeps us independent and able to deliver what readers need and want from Wikipedia. Which is exactly as it should be.
Financial contributions 2012–13
More than two million people donated the equivalent of more than US$50 million in more than 82 currencies.
Volunteer contributions 2012–13
Individual contributors made 160.2 million edits, added 4.9 million Wikipedia articles, and uploaded 4.3 million images, audio files and video files.
Total cash expenditures in 2012–13
$35.7 million
in US dollars
Some of the people who make it happen edit
Chelsea edit
In a world filled with halfhearted tweets, self-serving status updates and a painfully pessimistic news media — Wikipedia is a refreshingly selfless take on something we all take for granted.
— Chelsea, donor, Ohio, United States
Lutho edit
I am a 17 year-old boy staying with a single mother, sister and a brother not forgetting my cousin and her child. We stay in a small shack with no one working, surviving with only R1100 (US$100) supporting grant in each and every month. When I pass my grade 12 I want to do BSc Degree in Geology and work here in South Africa. Wikipedia can be very useful to me in such a way that when I am doing my assignments and projects I just go to Wikipedia and it provides every information I need. Every term my marks are improving because of the information that I get on Wikipedia.
— Lutho, learner at Sinenjongo High School, Joe Slovo Park, Cape Town, South Africa
The learners of Sinenjongo High School from Joe Slovo Park, South Africa sent a letter to the region’s mobile carriers to urge them to make Wikipedia freely accessible via mobile phones. The letter has kicked off an online movement to increase the visibility and growth of Wikipedia Zero throughout Africa.
Stefan edit
The purpose of the Wikivoyage Association is to promote education and knowledge of all countries and regions in the world, as well as understanding among nations. We’re very excited about the launch of Wikivoyage as a Wikimedia project, and about the future role of the Association in supporting the Wikivoyage community through its programs.
— Stefan Fussan, Chairman of the board, Wikivoyage Association
The Foundation’s newest project, Wikivoyage, set sail in 2013, bringing a thriving community of free knowledge travel writers to the Wikimedia community. Also supported by the Wikivoyage Association, Wikivoyage’s mission is to build a free, multilingual and worldwide travel guide that anyone can edit.
Siko edit
Connecting people and ideas is a critical component for many projects, and grantees recognize that community engagement and active collaboration is key for a project’s success.
— Siko Bouterse, Head of Individual Engagement Grants, Wikimedia Foundation
In 2012–13 the Foundation created a new program team focused on making grants to individuals, groups and organizations working on building community and growing content on Wikimedia projects, as well as related open knowledge projects.
Geoff edit
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Freedom of speech and access to information are core Wikimedia values. These values can be compromised by surveillance: editors and readers understandably are less willing to write and inform themselves as honestly and freely. Put simply, “rights of privacy are necessary for intellectual freedom.”
— Geoff Brigham, General Counsel, Wikimedia Foundation
In June 2013 the Foundation reaffirmed its commitment to protecting the privacy of its users in the midst of allegations that the Internet’s largest companies were compelled to collaborate with the PRISM program of the U.S. Government’s National Security Agency. The Foundation has never collaborated to share private information under these programs, and in response to the issue launched a consultation with the Wikimedia community to hear views and feedback on the issue.
Gereon edit
Almost everybody who contributes to Wikipedia does so completely for free. No one makes money on Wikipedia's millions of articles and images. And yet, it works. Wikipedia keeps growing, and it keeps getting better.
Wikipedia editors are people of every age and every walk of life: businessmen, artists, housewives, students. They come from all over the world. They share one thing in common: they love learning, and they love sharing what they've learned.
— Gereon, Writer and translator, Germany
Sinako edit
Wikipedia is a very useful website especially for us students. For me as an individual it has helped me a lot for my school assignments, projects, research and many more that I can go further and make mention of. Honestly speaking, my marks at school have increased from good to excellent because of Wikipedia. This is the exact reason me and my fellow classmates wrote a letter of plea that would allow free access to Wikipedia.
With the help from Wikipedia, great change could be seen in the world as a whole.
— Sinako, learner at Sinenjongo High School, Joe Slovo Park, Cape Town, South Africa
Wikipedia Zero aims to make our projects’ free knowledge accessible at no cost to hundreds of millions of mobile phone users, particularly in the Global South. Partnering with over 23 mobile carriers, the program provides Wikipedia access to over 280 million mobile customers in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia.
Vibha edit
Consistent with the DNA of Wikipedia, it is critical to employ imagery and symbols that are sensitive to many cultures, while conveying complex concepts, some of which might be uncommon to the rest of the Web 2.0 world.
— Vibha Bamba, Interaction Designer, Wikimedia Foundation
Tony edit
On Wikipedia, you've got to present a balanced view in your article. You can't be biased, and you can only use reliable sources. Wikipedia helps people get to the truth of things.
I can appreciate this. I'm a father, and a grandfather. I hope Wikipedia will give my children and grandchildren a chance to use what they've learned, and to make this world a better one.
— Tony “Tony the marine” Santiago, retired U.S. Marine Corps, Arizona, United States
Juliusz edit
Anyone with a computer can edit, but with over 15 percent of our users accessing Wikipedia on mobile devices and growing, the Wikimedia Foundation had to do more to let anyone with Internet access contribute to the sum of all human knowledge. For this reason, we’ve just released a new feature: editing for mobile.
— Juliusz Gonera, Software Engineer, Wikimedia Foundation
With the continuous rise of mobile access as a primary means of accessing the Internet, the Foundation’s software developers have made strides in bringing the core Wikipedia contributing functions to mobile platforms. In 2013 the Foundation debuted mobile Wikipedia editing and photo uploading, with more functions in development.
Ravan edit
If you follow the news, you probably remember reading about the Arab spring. For young people like me and my friends, it was the beginning of a new era. As momentous events happened, we were obsessed with the news, following up second by second. We were checking our phones, Facebook, Twitter.
And I was writing on Wikipedia. I love Wikipedia because it's impartial; it's the best source for up-to-date information from a neutral point of view. I looked at CNN, Al Jazeera and the BBC, searching for the most reliable sources. Then I added updates in real time.
— Ravan Jaafar Altaie, Telecom Engineer, Iraq
Iolanda edit
If only my grandfather could have seen Wikipedia, he would have loved it. He considered the center of the world to be our little village in northern Italy, Esino Lario. And after the second world war, he started collecting Esino’s local history — documents and archives dating all the way back to the 14th century, even some incredible photos of the mountains nearby and the whole Lake Como area.
Today, I’m carrying on his life work and his passion for recording local history and heritage. The difference is I have a tool my grandfather did not — Wikipedia.
— Iolanda, Scientific Director and Curator, Milan, Italy
Valerie edit
It’s important to have women participate in MediaWiki, Wikipedia, and open source projects in general because their perspectives are important — and not just women, but men and women of color as well. The absence of these perspectives affects the type of articles that get deleted, promoted, and even created.
— Valerie Juarez, bug wrangler-in-training, Wikimedia Foundation, FLOSS Outreach Program for Women
David edit
One of the most stimulating aspects of this entire experience is the chance to help people convert knowledge into images that make that knowledge more comprehensible, and then to ensure the accessibility of those images by making them freely available.
— David Gómez Fontanills, Wikimedian, Barcelona, Spain
Michael edit
This position is perfect for me. It combines my academic passion for history, archives, open source advocacy and technology. I see my role as a facilitator, helping to bridge the gap between those who have the content and those who have the technical skills to make that information accessible to the whole world.
— Michael Barera, Wikipedian in Residence
In January 2013, Michael Barera was appointed the first-ever Wikipedian in Residence at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library & Museum in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Since 2010 more than 50 residencies have been created at galleries, libraries, and museums around the world.
Amina edit
I've always wanted to learn more about my family’s roots, but it's tough. If you look at the map or ask the United Nations, my country doesn't exist. Somaliland isn't recognized by many international bodies. But when you read about Somaliland on Wikipedia, it's so amazing and detailed. I feel I'm represented. I can study history, politics, geography, even folktales and myths. I learned so much about my own community, just from reading Wikipedia.
— Amina, donor, Nairobi
Denny edit
It is the goal of Wikidata to collect the world’s complex knowledge in a structured manner so that anybody can benefit from it. Whether that’s readers of Wikipedia who are able to be up to date about certain facts or engineers who can use this data to create new products that improve the way we access knowledge.
— Denny Vrandečić, Wikidata Project Director, Wikimedia Deutschland
Launched in 2013, Wikidata is the Wikimedia community’s effort to create an open, free, and massive database of any form of cataloged, digital information. The project will have a profound impact on how Wikipedia and its sister projects organize and share information across languages and topic areas.
Walaa edit
This assignment is very good and more suitable to our time, because our generation doesn’t use papers like a more traditional assignment. My knowledge is published for all the world.
— Walaa, student, Giza, Egypt
The global education team oversees the Foundation’s fast-growing Wikipedia Education Program, a global initiative aimed at incorporating Wikipedia editing directly into academic curricula.
Juan edit
I saw that somebody tagged me on a picture on Facebook, so I said well maybe it’s a picture from the conference. And it was a picture of a newspaper, a New York Times newspaper, that had my pictures on the page.
I started thinking... well, if I didn't use Creative Commons licenses, or if I didn't release the pictures for the public domain, my pictures wouldn't have been published in one of the most important newspapers in the whole world. I think that was a life-changing experience for me.
— Juan Ignacio Iglesias, Programmer, Argentina
Global Journal edit
Ultimately, the Wikimedia Foundation represents a path-breaking example of what an NGO can achieve in the Internet era. Working with relatively meagre resources and committed to a funding model based on mass private donations as opposed to large institutional grants, the organization continues, through an innovative application of new technologies, to have a deep and abiding impact on the lives of millions around the world.
— Global Journal, January 2013
In late 2012 Global Journal placed the Wikimedia Foundation as the number two NGO in the world, in the company of exceptional nonprofits and NGOs. The Foundation ranked number one in 2011. This is the second year the Journal has published the ranking.
Q edit
One of the things that's surprised me most about my involvement with Wikipedia is the sense of community. It's an attitude of creativity and collaboration I’ve experienced nowhere else. If one person wants to start something, other people will jump onto it and say, “I can help you with this.”
— Q Miceli, Vegan baker, New Jersey, United States
James edit
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We are creating software that will let users load, edit and save Wikipedia articles visually, bypassing the existing system that requires our users learn “wikitext,” a complex markup code. Instead, the articles they’re editing will look the same as when they’re reading them, and any changes they make will be obvious in their effects before they press save — just like writing a document in a word processor.
— James Forrester, Product Manager, VisualEditor, Wikimedia Foundation
VisualEditor, the Foundation’s flagship software project, was introduced in beta status on many of the largest language Wikipedia projects in 2013. Developers have reviewed and addressed over 1500 bugs and issues to enhance and improve the software, a major effort to simplify the editing interface for Wikipedia and increase the overall size of the editing community.
Jimmy edit
It is hard to imagine that in 2003, Wikipedia was still running on just two servers — which I used to administer myself in the beginning. Ten years later, the Foundation continues to fulfill that role of supporting Wikipedia with a stable and trusted infrastructure. It’s possible thanks to the trust of our millions of donors, the hard work of its staff, the thoughtful oversight enacted by my fellow Board of Trustees members and last but not least the many thousands of volunteers who not only manage and build our projects, but also take an active part in the governance of the Foundation.
— Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia
In 2003 Jimmy Wales created the Wikimedia Foundation in St. Petersburg, Florida to provide a long-term, sustainable future for Wikipedia and its rapidly growing sister projects. Now based in downtown San Francisco, the Foundation has over 170 employees, and provides technological, programmatic, financial, and legal support and guidance to the international Wikimedia community.
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Ten years of free knowledge and free thinking edit
Wikipedia was founded in 2001, and by 2003 was beginning to flourish. The editing community had grown to almost 4,000 people who had already produced more than 234,000 articles in several dozen languages. Wikipedia was still quite small, but off to a solid start.
That’s when, ten years ago, Jimmy Wales founded the Wikimedia Foundation. Wikipedia’s bandwidth and server costs were beginning to outstrip his ability to pay for them, and it was clear that the project was going to be popular and successful. And so Jimmy created the Wikimedia Foundation with the goal of providing technological, legal, fundraising and administrative support for Wikipedia and its sister projects. Since then the support provided by the Wikimedia Foundation has enabled Wikipedia to develop into a trusted and much-beloved cultural institution and the biggest and most used repository of knowledge that the world has ever known.
If you’re reading this, you’re part of that success: thank you.
Since its launch 10 years ago, the Wikimedia Foundation has grown into an organization of just under 200 people — primarily software engineers, product developers and community liaisons. 2012–13 was a great year for us, mainly because it’s when we began to roll out VisualEditor, our long-awaited new editing functionality.
If you’ve ever tried to edit Wikipedia you know there’s a bit of a learning curve: historically editors have needed to learn wiki code before they can really start to make a contribution. Syntax isn’t necessarily hard to learn, but in 2013 people expect to be able to interact online without needing to think about the tools they’re using, and we wanted Wikipedia to meet those expectations.
Hence, VisualEditor! VisualEditor makes editing Wikipedia significantly simpler and faster, and we hope will enable new people to start contributing to Wikipedia who otherwise wouldn’t. VisualEditor is rolling out in stages across Wikipedia’s 284 language editions, and if it hasn’t arrived yet on the edition you use, it will soon. We encourage you to give it a try. If you see a typo or a small mistake on Wikipedia, please fix it, and if you know anything worth adding, please add it. Some people find editing remarkably satisfying, and we hope you will too.
We’re also particularly proud this year of the success of Wikipedia Zero, our project that forms partnerships with mobile carriers giving their customers access to Wikipedia for free on their phones. Due to Wikipedia Zero, today more than 300 million people throughout Africa, Asia and the Middle East have access to Wikipedia from their mobile phones without incurring any data charges. In 2014 we’ll add Latin America to that list. Whether you are an editor or a donor (or both!), on behalf of the half-billion people who read Wikipedia and its sister projects, we thank you for your support. It’s been a good year, and we look forward to more and better in 2014.
Sincerely,
Sue Gardner, Executive Director
Jan-Bart de Vreede, Chair, Board of Trustees
Projects edit
The Wikimedia Foundation operates 13 free knowledge projects managed and built by a community of over 100,000 active volunteers.
Wikipedia® Free encyclopedia
The free encyclopedia containing more than 30 million articles in 287 languages. The most comprehensive and widely used reference work humans have ever compiled. More than 70,000 active volunteers contribute every month.
Wikimedia Commons® Shared media repository
A repository of almost 20 million freely usable images, sound and video files, serving both Wikimedia’s projects and countless other educational and informational needs.
MediaWiki® Open-source wiki software
The leading open-source wiki software on the Internet which acts as the backbone for all of the Wikimedia Foundation’s wikis and thousands of other wiki communities.
Wikidata® Free knowledge repository
Wikivoyage® Free worldwide travel guide
Wikispecies® Dictionary of species
Wikibooks® Free textbooks and manuals
Wikinews® Free content news source
Wikiquote® Collection of free quotations
Wiktionary® Dictionary and thesaurus
Meta-wiki™ Project coordination
Wikiversity® Free learning tools
Wikisource® Free source documents
Financial Performance edit
All financial data is reported in US dollars unless otherwise noted.
| Description | Amount | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Support and revenue | |||
| Donations and contributions | 44,667 | ||
| In-kind service revenue | 261 | ||
| Other income, net | 414 | ||
| Investment income, net | 17 | ||
| Release of restrictions on temporarily restricted net assets | 3,276 | ||
| Total revenue | 48,635 | ||
| Expenses | |||
| Salaries and wages | 15,984 | ||
| Awards and grants | 2,791 | ||
| Internet hosting | 2,550 | ||
| In-kind service expenses | 261 | ||
| Other operating expenses | 10,017 | ||
| Travel and conferences | 1,395 | ||
| Depreciation | 2,707 | ||
| Total expenses | 35,705 | ||
| Increase in unrestricted net assets | 12,930 | ||
| Temporarily restricted net assets | |||
| Contributions | 606 | ||
| Release of restrictions on temporarily restricted net assets | (3,276) | ||
| Decrease in temporarily restricted net assets | (2,670) | ||
| Increase in net assets | 10,260 | ||
| Assets | Liabilities & Net Assets | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash and cash equivalents | 22,172 | Liabilities | |||
| Current portion of contributions receivable | 1,550 | Accounts payable | 1,092 | ||
| Accounts receivable, net | 47 | Accrued expenses | 1,457 | ||
| Investments | 17,579 | Deferred revenue | 37 | ||
| Prepaid expenses and other current assets | 1,391 | Other liabilities | 372 | ||
| Total current assets | 42,739 | Total liabilities | 2,958 | ||
| Property, plant, and equipment, net | 4,912 | Net Assets | |||
| Nonconcurrent portion of contributions receivable | 496 | Unrestricted net assets | 42,922 | ||
| Temporarily restricted net assets | 2,267 | ||||
| Total net assets | 45,189 | ||||
| Total assets | 48,147 | Total liabilities and net assets | 48,147 | ||
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Governance edit
Board of Trustees
Jan-Bart de Vreede, Chair
Phoebe Ayers, Vice Chair
Stu West, Treasurer
Bishakha Datta, Secretary
Jimmy Wales, Founder
Kat Walsh, Chair (through August 2013)
Samuel Klein
Alice Wiegand
Patricio Lorente
Ana Toni
María Sefidari
Advisory Board
Ward Cunningham
Florence Devouard
Melissa Hagemann
Matt Halprin
Benjamin Mako Hill
Mimi Ito
Mitch Kapor
Veronique Kessler
Neeru Khosla
Teemu Leinonen
Nhlanhla Mabaso
Rebecca MacKinnon
Wayne Mackintosh
Roger McNamee
Domas Mituzas
Trevor Neilson
Craig Newmark
Achal Prabhala
Clay Shirky
Michael Snow
Jing Wang
Jessamyn West
Ethan Zuckerman
Executive Director
Sue Gardner
Executive Team
Geoff Brigham
Garfield Byrd
Lisa Seitz Gruwell
Erik Möller
Frank Schulenburg
Anasuya Sengupta
Gayle Karen Young
Contributors edit
The Wikimedia Foundation benefits from its unique global community of volunteer editors and financial contributors. We thrive due to the vital support we receive from this community.
$1 million + edit
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Stanton Foundation
$100,000 – $999,999 edit
Peter Baldwin & Lisbet Rausing
Charina Endowment Fund
Michael Chastain
John S. & James L. Knight Foundation
La Vida Feliz Foundation
Microsoft Matching Gifts Program
Qatar Foundation
Brin Wojcicki Foundation
Anonymous (3)
$25,000 – $99,999 edit
Apple Matching Gifts Program
John Blue
Cards Against Humanity
Elmira Choopani & Khanh Vu
Clardy's Diversified
craigslist Charitable Fund
In memory of Timothy J. Cronin
Goldman Sachs Matching Gift Program
Google Matching Gifts
Jeff Heidi & Andy Consuelo Fund
Kimberly Sweidy & Raymie Stata
Boris & Inara Teterev Foundation
Two Sigma Investments LLC
Anonymous (2)
$5,000 – $24,999 edit
John Abele
Aber D. Unger Foundation
Adobe Systems Inc.
In memory of Tim Allen
In memory of Yousef A. AlSager
Bijan & Soraya Amin Foundation
Eric Anderson Foundation
Around Foundation
Timur Artemev
Arthur J. Gallagher & Company
Abdullah Ibne Atiq
Bank of America Matching Gifts Program
Barrett Family Foundation
Doron Ben-Avi
Bernstein & Montgomery Fund
Xochiltzin & Michael Birch
Boeing Company Matching Gifts
The Brightwater Fund, Gloria Jarecki
Caulkins Family Foundation
CNCRepair.com
Curt & Clara Foundation
De Ramel Foundation
John Depalma
DEW Foundation
Disruptor Foundation
Maran Elancheran - Newgen KnowledgeWorks
Elbaz Family Foundation
Mr. A. Fellous
Fenwick & West LLP
Forward Faster
Fulcrum Foundation
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Matching Gifts Program
GE Foundation
Brian Geisel
Joan Gibson
Good Bear and Company Charitable Fund
D.W. Gore Family Foundation
Grace Jones Richardson Trust
Stuart Gray
Alan Guth
J. Hall
Kimberley Harding
Marc Haas Foundation
James Heilman
Mark Heising & Liz Simons
Hobby Family Foundation
Hummingbird Foundation
William Hurt
InstaForex Companies Groups
Isambard Kingdom Brunel Society of North America
George Jankovic
Jewish Community Federation Endowment Fund
Jizo, Tallula, Heathcliff & Bob
Scott Jordan
Ravi Kalidindi
Keel Foundation
Takashi Kousaka
Lamb & Barnosky LLC
Lehoczky & Escobar Family
Greg & Liz Lutz
Mariam Awada Revocable Trust
MathWorks
Joseph K. McLaughlin
Melvin S. Cohen Foundation
Myfe Moore
Timothy Mott
National Christian Foundation
National Instruments
Network For Good
Newsmax Media
Nora Roberts Foundation
Elizabeth & Brian O'Kelley Charitable Fund
Kevin O'Shea
Nicholas Palevsky Fund
P&C Collins Fund at the Bessemer Trust
Frank Palmans
PediaPress GMBH
Gustavo Pierini
Polis-Schutz Family Foundation
Jane Pyenson
Qualcomm Matching Gift Program
RetailMeNot
Philip Ries
Nicholas & C. Joan Riesland
Robert Gore Rifkind Foundation
Lorne Runge
Richard Saada
Salesforce.com Foundation
Christopher Seiwald
Margo Seltzer
Shaked Family, Tel Aviv
James Simons
Stack Exchange Inc.
Lawrence Stanback
Strypemonde Foundation
Lawrence Stupski
Samantha Tarricone
John Templeton Foundation
The Behemoth
James & Angela Thompson Foundation
Tripling Elephants
Lisa Tung
Christopher Turner
Twig Foundation
Lisa Vagge
VMware Foundation
Piet van de Heide
Hal Varian
Robert Vick Charitable Fund
Jean Vollum Fund
Wargaming.net
Jeffrey & Mary Werbalowsky Philanthropic Fund
Malon & Susan Wilkus
Scott Wolf
Yahoo Employee Matching Gifts Program
Yardi Systems Inc.
YourCause Matching Gift
Mary Zbikowski
David Zwirner
Anonymous (17)
$1,000 – $4,999 edit
AIG Matching Grants Program
A & M Inspection
William Abington
Anurag Acharya
Suhail Afzal
David Agraz
Kaleem Ahmad
Saeed Ahmed Al Otaiba
David R. Albrecht
Mohammed Alkhalifa
David Alston
Konrad Alt
America's Charities
Richard Ames
Amgen Foundation
The Anderson Family
Chris Anderson
Dalibor Antonic
Terrence Cyril Joseph Anthuvan
AON Foundation
Benjamin Appen
Appleby Family
Marc Arginteanu
Dave Arneson
Charles Arnold
John Arnold
Aruba Networks Inc.
Vadim Asadov
Robert Ashcroft
AT&T United Way Employee Giving Campaign
Jesse Ausubel
G.P. "Buzz" Avery
Awareness Publishing
John Babcock
Alexis Baird
Sam Baldridge
Roger J. Bamford
R. & A. Bandela
Scott Banister
Cindy L. Barber
Edward Bardsley
In honor of Kathy Bates
Bayer Family Foundation
Jack Baylis
Robert Beens
Jason Beffel
Norma Bell
Belmonte Foundation
Frances & Benjamin Benenson Foundation Inc.
Bill Benter
Rajeev Bhaman
Kasi Bhaskar
Emil Biendara
Michael Bills
Graeme Birchall
BlackRock Matching Gifts Program
Michael Boberschmidt
Joel Bonda
Boulder Labs
Bob Bradley
Glenn Brandimarte
Joseph C. & Carol M. Brandt
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company Employee Giving Program
Brooks Family Foundation
Roger E. Broughton
Thomas Brown
Broyhill Family Foundation
Bruce Ford Brown Charitable Trust
Sophie Bryan
Alberto Buffetti
Thomas Buhr
Bullaughey Family Charitable Fund
Roger Burkhart
Andrew Butts
Barry Buzan
David Bydeley
CA Technologies Matching Gift Program
Brian Cairns
John Cameron
Annette Campbell-White
Maria Caponi
Robert Capps
Card Hub
Raul Carmenate
In memory of Andrea F. Carret
Eng-Liang Ch'ng
Elaine Chapin
Charitable Flex Fund
Charles Schwab Foundation
ChatContacts.com
Ted Chauviere
Leo Chen
Crystal Chen MD
Estee Cheng
Stuart Cheshire
James Cho
Michael Choy & Shannon Moffett
Anne-Birgitte Christensen
Nicholas Chu
Pawel Ciszewski
Steve Clark
Clorox Company Foundation Employee Giving Campaign
Ronald Codd
Martin Cohn
Paul Coladonato
Dave & Dani Coleman
Carole Colley
ConocoPhillips Gift Matching
Conger Family Foundation
Ryan Conlon
John & Lenore Cooney
Jorge Bossa Contreras
CouponAlbum.com
John J. Coyne
Coxhead California Charitable Fund
Oisin Crawley
Credit Card Forum
D Systems
Danem Foundation
Frank & Carol Daniels III
Jeffrey N. Dauber
David S. Howe Foundation
Gilles de Buretel de Chassey
De Giorgi
Carl de Marcken
DECA International
J.F. Degnbol
Dejaco Family Foundation
Stephen & Elizabeth Detwiler
Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation Matching Gifts Program
Elissa DeVos Lowery
Hester Diamond
Diedre Moire Corporation Inc.
Carolyn Dille
Boxiong Ding
Mathew Donovan
John G. Dove, Revere, Massachusetts
Michael & Denise Doyen
Rick Duffy
Dale Dunham
Ken & Hara Durkin
Durst Family
Mark Duttweiler & Christine Pajak
EADS North America Matching Gift
Kenneth Eddings
Bill Edwards & Ron Bailey
Eggplant Systems and Design LLC
Max Einhorn
Stanley Eisenberg
En souvenir de Réal Labelle
Katherine Erickson
Mark Esposito
ExxonMobil Foundation Matching Gifts Program
Craig Falls
Richard Farnan
D. Farrien
Damian Farry
Ira Fay
Jorge Feffer
Bradley Feld
Fieldstead and Company
Michael Fine - Mediander
Mitra Fiuzat
Larry Flanders
Steve Fleming
Charlie and Carla Flournoy
Jeannie Fontana
Marc Forand
Ford Foundation Matching Gift Program
William Ford
Gerald Forney
Carolyn Foss
Gregory Fox
John Fox
Adela Frame
Freddie Mac Foundation
Freeman Foundation
Friends of the Web
Kevin Gamble
Wikimedia Foundation Staff
Ron & Nancy Garret
Don Garrett
Terry Garrett
Ken Geib
R.G. Geisler
Betty Harrell Gerlack
Abdulaziz Ghuloum
John Giannandrea
Richard Glavan
Global Impact
Sally Gochenaur
Thomas Godfroy
Peter Goes
Richard Goldman
Yudson Gondobintoro
Grand Rapids Community Foundation
Elvira Grandone
Grainger Matching Gifts Program
Gregory Grass
Green Bicycle Fund
Geoffrey Grossman
Jennifer & Robert Grunbeck Family Foundation
Ilfak Guilfanov
John Gurley
William Gustafson
Lynnette Ha
Alexandre Haag
Paul Haahr
Tillmann Haak
Hamilton Foundation
Kevin Hammond
Sean Hammons
Patricia Hanna
Richard Henry & Kathryn Hood Harjes Foundation
Clayton Harper
Arthur Harrill
Harrity Family
Tyler Harter
Wayne Hathaway
Christopher & Nicole Heathwood Charitable Trust
Kim Henry
Ben Henty
In memory of Charles F. Herbert & Alida Desselle Herbert
In honor of B. Hesper
Hexza Corporation Berhad
Highland Vineyard Foundation
Rees D. & Claire Higham Thomas
Ali Hijazi
Mike Hileman
Wesley Hill
Rochelle & David A. Hirsch Foundation
David Hitz
Hoang Ho Vinh
James Hobart
Joel Hock
Jessica Hodgins
H. N. Hoffman III Foundation
Kenneth Holden
William Holliday
Aubrey Holt
The Homestead Charitable Trust
Jane Hope
John Horne
Hospira Employee Giving Campaign
Hotger Corp.
Houser Foundation
Houston Endowment
Cheryl Howard
Ying-Sheng Hu
Hans Huber
John Huges
John Hughes
Macduff Hughes
Aaron Hung
Robert Hunt
Don Husby
IBM Employee Services Center
Illinois Tool Works Foundation
Innovation & Understanding Fund
Insiders Finland Oy Ab
Intetics Company
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