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-'''Proposal for Capturing Financial Information for Mozilla Foundation'''
+== '''Proposal for Capturing Financial Information for Mozilla Foundation''' ==
 '''Summary''':  Mozilla Foundation amasses data about our donors, the causes they give to and how they match up against our fundraising and engagement targets. We need an effective framework for communicating progress against these targets.
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      * Community: This would be a resource for prospective or existing donors. Among the different classes of donors, long time/scheduled or repeat donors would be able to look at how much they've donated over time and/or how their funds are being used.
+'''Weaknesses/Threats:'''
+* Accessing PayPal may be challenging to work with if we use an API because of password access
+* MoFo may not be able to to share financial information when working with teams outside of the Foundation
+* May be challenging to scrape the data
+* Collaborating across teams may be challenging
+* Planning process may be tedious
+* Does MoFo need to be careful to separate itself on projects with MoCo?
-Weaknesses/Threats:
+'''Strengths/Opportunities:'''
+* Quicker mining of data
-    * Accessing PayPal may be challenging to work with if we use an API because of password access
+* More accurate results
-    * MoFo may not be able to to share financial information when working with teams outside of the Foundation
+* Builds a pipeline for metrics and reporting at Mozilla
-    * May be challenging to scrape the data
+* More information crossover among teams and collaboration
-    * Collaborating across teams may be challenging
+* Strengthens the Finance/Accounting for their own data reporting by using this project as a test case
-    * Planning process may be tedious
+* Encourages methods to report financial information to Mozilla, internally and externally
-    * Does MoFo need to be careful to separate itself on projects with MoCo?
+* Develops accountability and transparency for our reporting (i.e. on website, newsletters, etc.)
+* Creates processes for the Foundation and a detailed paper trail.
+* Once the data is produced, there may be the opportunity to have a visual reference of donation progress on Mozilla's homepage
-Strengths/Opportunities:
+* Mozilla currently does not have a lot of data that is being made directly available to the public at the moment--having an efficient data pulling system builds a paper trail and make a more streamlined system for record-keeping.
+* Automation of data system helps build the furtherment of the Metrics team for Mozilla Corporate and building a systematized approach for Mozilla Accounting/Finance (Jim Cook).
-    * Quicker mining of data
-    * More accurate results
-    * Building a pipeline for metrics and reporting at Mozilla
-    * More information crossover among teams and collaborations
-    * Strengthens the Finance/Accounting for their own data reporting by using this project as a test case
-    * Increases ways to report financial information to Mozilla, internally and externally
-    * Develops accountability and transparency for our reporting (i.e. on website, newsletters, etc.)
-    * Creates processes for the Foundation and a detailed paper trail.
-    * Once the data is produced, there may be the opportunity to have a visual reference of donation progress on Mozilla's homepage
-    * Mozilla currrently does not have a lot of data that is being made directly available to the public at the moment--having an efficient data pulling system builds a paper trail and make a more streamlined system for record-keeping.
-    * Automating this system helps build the furtherment of the Metrics team for Mozilla Corporate and building a systemized approach for Mozilla Accounting/Finance (Jim Cook).
-    * Encourages cross collaboration among teams at Mozilla?
-General ideas/References for Project:
-    * Use PayPal's Donations Tracking system which allows organizations to automatically track up-to-date donation totals to help increase donations for web-based campaigns. PayPal tools also provides instant feedback to donors and potential donors. By using this, each account includes an unlimited number of campaigns and graphical views to track multiple goals even on multiple websites that share the same PayPal account!http://www.donationstracker.com/
+'''General ideas/References for Project:'''
-    * Create a concentrated one-week campaign for Mozilla Foundation when Firefox features a donation option so people can contribute to the Foundation.
+* Use PayPal's Donations Tracking system which allows organizations to automatically track up-to-date donation totals to help increase donations for web-based campaigns. PayPal tools also provides instant feedback to donors and potential donors. By using this, each account includes an unlimited number of campaigns and graphical views to track multiple goals even on multiple websites that share the same PayPal account!http://www.donationstracker.com/
-    * Have a live feed of people who've donated (voluntary option, depending on privacy issues)
+* Create a concentrated one-week campaign for Mozilla Foundation when Firefox features a donation option so people can contribute to the Foundation.
-    * http://themaineview.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/monthlytotalschart.jpg
+* Have a live feed of people who've donated (voluntary option, depending on privacy issues)
-    * References: http://metrics.mozilla.com
+* [[http://themaineview.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/monthlytotalschart.jpg/ Example of one way to present a Monthly Totals Chart for Mozilla Foundation data]]
+* References: http://metrics.mozilla.com