congratulations lisa! ii must admit i somehow like the cause, but i find it
a little challenging to see who gets the money. lets take the example of
borealisphilantrophy.org . in their last annual report [1]. they state an
income of 50 mio USD. they give out 29 mio USD grants to 390 grantees.
Broadly agreeing with Gergő — our central challenge in this arena is that
the Foundation's total investment in things outside of staffing its own
growing org has historically been quite small — even though we recognize
that WP itself needed well under $1M to take off, and that we need a wide
range
One can argue about whether it was a good idea to give 15% of the
Foundation's annual grant budget to largely-unrelated charities as a snap
reaction to a wave of US political protests. But assuming it was - this
happened in the middle of the pandemic, with the WMF operating on extremely
restricted
On Thu, Sep 9, 2021 at 11:16 PM Nadee Gunasena
wrote:
> Gnangarra, the first round of grantees with this pilot fund was based on
> suggestions from the Equity Fund Committee itself, as the Equity Fund was
> being created. However, we recognize that, for example, this round *does
> not include
I find it hard to disagree with any of Yair's points.
Equally puzzling is why the 2019/2020 surplus was passed to Tides Advocacy
in the first place, rather than, say, being added to the Wikimedia
Endowment, or simply retained by the WMF, along with the rest of the year's
substantial surplus.
I haven't yet had time to look over the grantee organizations, and the
general issue of funding non-Wikimedia efforts has been fairly well-covered
by statements from all four recently-elected trustees, so I'm just going to
take a moment to bring up some points about the specific process used here:
Gnangarra, the first round of grantees with this pilot fund was based on
suggestions from the Equity Fund Committee itself, as the Equity Fund was
being created. However, we recognize that, for example, this round does not
include any grantees based in Asia, and our goal is to concentrate in those
Adding to Andys observation of distribution being majority US centric
projects. How we can learn if there isnt diverse cultural experiences, is
there any information as to why the equity fund wasn't distributed across
all regions?
On Thu, 9 Sept 2021 at 00:12, Andy Mabbett
wrote:
> On Wed, 8
On Wed, 8 Sept 2021 at 15:09, Lisa Gruwell wrote:
> We are excited to share that we have chosen the first round of grantees for
> the Knowledge Equity Fund pilot. The Equity Fund Committee selected six
> grantees across the Middle East, Africa, and North and South America who
> focus on issues
Hi Lisa,
Thanks, I didn't spot that page (I was looking on diff and meta). These
are big grants (>$150k/ea - total is $1.36 million), so I think it's
really important that a decent amount of information about their
application and plans is posted on meta, as per the internal Wikimedia
Hi Mike-
Thanks for the questions. The amounts of the grants and descriptions of
them are in the press release:
https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2021/09/08/wikimedia-foundation-announces-first-grant-recipients-of-new-4-5-million-equity-fund/
We will be sure to add that information to Meta
Hi Lisa,
Thanks for the info, and congratulations to the grantees! I'm trying to
find out more information about the grants (US$ amount, details of what
the money will be spent on, and expected impact), but I can't see the
applications or further information on meta - could you point towards
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