Dear Julia,
On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 4:07 PM Julia Brungs wrote:
> Hi Andreas,
>
> Thank you for bringing these questions together here. As you are aware the
> questions and answers are also on meta (both the talk:Endowment [1] and the
> talk:Fundraising [2]) and we expect to post further
Hi Andreas,
Thank you for bringing these questions together here. As you are aware the
questions and answers are also on meta (both the talk:Endowment [1] and the
talk:Fundraising [2]) and we expect to post further answers to those
talkpages during the US West Coast daytime today.
Thank you very
Hi Lisa and all,
Could you provide any update on what is happening with the $8.7 million in
the Tides Advocacy fund? I asked about it on the Endowment talk page on
Meta two weeks ago, and while many other questions there have been
answered, this one has not.
I also asked on Meta how much money
On Sun, Jan 3, 2021 at 2:00 PM Gnangarra wrote:
> > A portion of our grant to Tides Advocacy will be used to launch the
>> Wikimedia Knowledge Equity Fund, a new fund that the Wikimedia Foundation
>> is establishing this fiscal year to invest in new grant-making
>> opportunities in support of
Kaya
> > A portion of our grant to Tides Advocacy will be used to launch the
> Wikimedia Knowledge Equity Fund, a new fund that the Wikimedia Foundation
> is establishing this fiscal year to invest in new grant-making
> opportunities in support of groups that are advancing equitable, inclusive
Hi,
> A portion of our grant to Tides Advocacy will be used to launch the
Wikimedia Knowledge Equity Fund, a new fund that the Wikimedia Foundation
is establishing this fiscal year to invest in new grant-making
opportunities in support of groups that are advancing equitable, inclusive
On Sat, 2 Jan 2021 at 07:46, rupert THURNER
wrote:
> have a good start into the new year everybody! should not, ideally, the
> legal team of amanda keton be able to tell if fundting something is legal?
> or is this a liability issue, so tides would be liable for misconduct, and
> not a person
hi lisa,
have a good start into the new year everybody! should not, ideally, the
legal team of amanda keton be able to tell if fundting something is legal?
or is this a liability issue, so tides would be liable for misconduct, and
not a person within wikimedia foundation?
rupert
On Mon, Dec
(@Deskana: When 6-18 months go by and there is no information made public
until finally forced by either legal requirements (eg the form 990s) or
basic reporting standards (eg the audit report, without which the WMF would
lose ratings in sites like Charity Navigator), that indicates a lack of
Hi Lisa and all,
Thanks for your responses and thoughts. This is an important area, and key
to get right with a consensus-driven approach.
Are we going to announce the process for giving grants to organisations
outside the movement, including the process for community involvement, in
the spirit
Thanks Lisa,
It makes total sense.
Galder
From: Wikimedia-l on behalf of Lisa
Gruwell
Sent: Monday, December 14, 2020 6:53 PM
To: Wikimedia Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF transfers $8.7 million to "Wikimedia Knowledge
Equity Fund"
Hi Lisa,
OK, so who in the Wikimedia movement is reviewing the funding applications and
deciding where the money that Tides has been entrusted with gets spent?
Thanks,
Mike
> On 14 Dec 2020, at 21:17, Lisa Gruwell wrote:
>
> Hi Mike-
>
> Thanks for the question. The review and oversight
Hi Mike-
Thanks for the question. The review and oversight that we will get from
Tides is nothing like the FDC review. They will be looking at, for
example, "Is this grant supporting activity that is legal for a 501c3 to
fund?" It is in no way a replacement for the work that the FDC or the
Thanks Lisa, that's very reassuring.
Again, I know there will be more info on the Knowledge Equity Fund in the
> new year. I ask your patience for the folks initiating this and trust that
> they will share more soon.
>
I look forward to hearing more from those folks in due course. There must
be
Hi Lisa,
Isn’t this the oversight work that the WMF wanted to be able to do when it
changed from Wikimedia affiliates being able to fundraise directly to the FDC
process? Why has WMF chosen to outsource this to Tides rather than continuing
to do it in-house? And why does Tides now get to
This is great to see. Thank you for helping to ensure continuity of
support in a tense time. SJ
On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 3:11 PM Lisa Gruwell wrote:
> Hi Chris-
>
> I am happy to answer your questions about Tides. No, Tides is not picking
> the grantees. The docket of grantees and the
Hi Chris-
I am happy to answer your questions about Tides. No, Tides is not picking
the grantees. The docket of grantees and the specific of the grants comes
from us. Tides provides legal and administrative review of the
grants, approves them, and processes the grants(i.e. wires the funding
Thanks Lisa. That statement makes a lot of sense, though I do have some
questions still.
>
> Our first priority was to ensure that we had enough funding to support
> community grants. We transferred the full amount for Annual Plan Grants
> (APG) for FY20-21 over to Tides to ensure that all
Hi all,
Thanks for the questions. We intend to announce the Knowledge Equity Fund
in early 2021, once we have a bit more details and specifics worked out.
However, we can share the overall intention today.
Some background: Our fiscal year runs from July through June, which means
that the second
Hi folks,
Happy Sunday from San Francisco -- we've seen the questions on this list,
and we'll reply tomorrow when folks are back at work. Thanks for your
understanding!
Hope everyone is staying well and safe,
Katherine
On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 5:36 AM Isaac Olatunde
wrote:
> I agree with Dan.
So, the text in the FAQs is as follows:
"This year’s report says that the Wikimedia Foundation provided an
unconditional grant of $8.723 million to Tides Advocacy for the Wikimedia
Knowledge Equity Fund. What is the Wikimedia Knowledge Equity Fund?
A portion of our grant to Tides Advocacy will
I agree with Dan. A question about this should have been directed to the
WMF and allow them to respond prior to raising it here (if that's even
necessary in the first place.)
Regards
Isaac
On Sun, 13 Dec 2020, 14:30 Dan Garry (Deskana), wrote:
> It seems disingenous to describe it as
It seems disingenous to describe it as "secret" given that it was willingly
acknowledged in the the FAQ of the annual financial audit
It is the endowment.
Le dim. 13 déc. 2020 à 10:37 AM, Yair Rand a écrit :
> No, the Wikimedia Endowment is a separate thing.
>
> -- Yair Rand
>
> בתאריך יום א׳, 13 בדצמ׳ 2020 ב-4:18 מאת Michael Peel <
> em...@mikepeel.net>:
>
>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Endowment ?
>>
No, the Wikimedia Endowment is a separate thing.
-- Yair Rand
בתאריך יום א׳, 13 בדצמ׳ 2020 ב-4:18 מאת Michael Peel <
em...@mikepeel.net>:
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Endowment ?
>
> On 13 Dec 2020, at 08:33, Yair Rand wrote:
>
> According to the recent Independent
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Endowment ?
> On 13 Dec 2020, at 08:33, Yair Rand wrote:
>
> According to the recent Independent Auditors' Report of the WMF [1], at some
> point prior to the end of June 2020, an entity called the "Wikimedia
> Knowledge Equity Fund" was established,
According to the recent Independent Auditors' Report of the WMF [1], at
some point prior to the end of June 2020, an entity called the "Wikimedia
Knowledge Equity Fund" was established, and $8.723 million was transferred
to it by the WMF, in the form of an unconditional grant. The Fund is
"managed
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