On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 11:42 PM, <sgard...@wikimedia.org<wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org> > wrote:
> > > Anasuya will be responsible for running all grantmaking processes (for > > both individuals and entities) and for helping movement entities, like > > chapters and thematic organizations, to develop and mature. Reporting > > to Anasuya will be Asaf Bartov, Jessie Wild, Oona Castro and Siko > > Bouterse, as well as a Senior Program Officer for the FDC (a new > > position that will be filled within the next month or so). > > * The Senior Program Officer will be responsible for facilitating the > > FDC process, which recommends funding allocations for the largest and > > wealthiest Wikimedia organizations such as Wikimedia Germany and > > Wikimedia France. > > * Asaf continues to be responsible for the Wikimedia Grants Program, > > supporting younger, smaller Wikimedia organizations like Wikimedia > > Venezuela and Wikimedia Mexico, and for finding non-Wikimedia > > organizations that we can fund to carry out good programmatic > > activities in developing countries, particularly where there are no > > chapters. > > * Jessie will be responsible for evaluation and learning for all our > > grantmaking --- both helping us internally optimize our processes, and > > helping us and the grant recipients assess organizations? development > > (for Anasuya) and the impact of the programs funded by movement > > dollars (for Frank). > > * Oona will continue to run the Brazil program. Consistent with the > > Narrowing Focus plan, she is actively seeking a partner to continue > > the work in Brazil within a grants structure similar to the one we > > recently negotiated with CIS in India. > > * Siko is taking over responsibility from Asaf for all funding for > > individuals. This will make it possible for us to grow our individual > > grant-making, and it will also free up Asaf to do more small > > organization development. Siko will also be responsible for > > documentation and analysis of all grants except the ones funded by the > > FDC. It?s important for us to grow grantmaking to individuals because > > individuals create 99% of the value in the projects. They do it with > > practically no funding, but in some cases a little money will be able > > to make something great happen. > Hi all, As Sue mentioned, we're looking at growing WMF's grant-making to individuals. This allows us to accomplish the goals of narrowing focus (on WMF's capacity as grant-makers, in this case), while finding new ways to support projects led by individual community members. Some more specifics are on meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Individual_Engagement_Grants Please share your thoughts on-wiki if possible. Thanks! -- Siko Bouterse Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. sboute...@wikimedia.org *Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. * *Donate <https://donate.wikimedia.org> or click the "edit" button today, and help us make it a reality!* _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
