Community Giving Program Mission Statement

We have been thinking lately about writing a very clear mission statement for the giving program that will help guide us going forward. From one of Mitchell’s earlier posts, she wrote:

“The goal of such a program is to learn if and how we can use some of the Firefox revenue to support and strengthen the activities of the Mozilla community beyond those people employed by the Foundation and Mozilla Corporation.”

(Read more here)

Recently, we started to look at groups of volunteers who are contributing to the project and reach out to them to find ways to support them by asking them directly. That is happening now. However, it seems like it would be beneficial to have a purpose statement that we can refer to when we are describing the program. More importantly, we need a statement that we can turn to when we have questions now and in the future about what might and might not be part of this program. We want it to be descriptive enough to answer what we are trying to do, but also have some timelessness so that it is still relevant 2-3 years from now, or way beyond that.

I would gladly accept any thoughts on this. I will post something soon that we have been working on and will call for more suggestions at that point. However, if there are initial responses to what has been written regarding the mission of this giving program, please feel free to post some suggestions.