[Wikimedia-l] Re: Welcoming the first round of grants from the Equity Fund

[rupert THURNER]

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. they
save 14 mio for the future and burn 7 mio USD to so. this means 18''000 USD
cost for a single grantee. borealisphilantropy is 6 years old and has given
78 USD grants in total.

borealis racial equity in journalism fund gave 2.4 mio to 27 grantees. so
the wikimedia contribution of  250'000 USD is 10% of it, for simplicity
lets dvide their total 27 grantees by 10 to get 3 grantees supported by
wikimedia. borealis cost to select these 3 grantees is 18'000*3 = 50'000
USD, so 200'000 go are left for organisations. these organisations are like
qcitymetro.com [2]. donating there leads to glennoaks media LLC [], with a
couple of employees.

am i doing this right, and it is intended that the money ends up in such
organisations?

[1]
https://borealisphilanthropy.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/BP_AnnualReport_202.pdf
[2] https://qcitymetro.com/about-qcitymetro/
[3] https://www.manta.com/c/mtth022/glennoaks-media-llc

rupert


On Sat, Sep 11, 2021 at 10:54 PM Samuel Klein  wrote:

> 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 of innovative ideas - and recognition for the most creative community
> efforts - to have a chance of repeating that in other arenas. The amount we
> invest in new outside projects and regional affiliates was modest a decade
> ago, and since then has grown more slowly the internal budget.
>
> So I was glad to see these funds earmarked last year, and the results seem
> healthy; at the same time the Foundation seems to be increasing
> community-overseen grantmaking, which is essential. The two are not
> mutually exclusive.
>
> S.
>
> 
>
> On Sat., Sep. 11, 2021, 3:14 p.m. Gergő Tisza,  wrote:
>
>> 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 resources (with many staff working half-time, see [1]), and was
>> trying to react to an unexpected event quickly, so I doubt it could have
>> been done in a significantly more transparent or participatory manner. And
>> the community was also stretched pretty thin, there were constant
>> complaints of being consulted about too many things at the same time, with
>> the movement strategy discussions, board election discussions, code of
>> conduct discussions, branding discussions etc. going on, while people's
>> personal lives were in disarray due to the lockdowns and other
>> virus-related disruptions; some consultations had to be delayed, even the
>> board elections had to be delayed. So I doubt the community would have had
>> the capacity to practice oversight, had it been invited to.
>>
>> That's not to say those we shouldn't ask for more transparency and
>> participation *going forward*, as those circumstances are now largely
>> behind us (at least in the Global North; not sure about community capacity
>> in the countries which would be the most logical beneficiaries of an equity
>> fund). But we should acknowledge the severe constraints the WMF was under a
>> year ago.
>>
>> (disclaimer: I work at the WMF, in a non-grantmaking-related position.
>> All of the above is my personal opinion as a long-time community member.)
>>
>> [1]:
>> https://medium.com/freely-sharing-the-sum-of-all-knowledge/wikimedia-coronavirus-response-people-first-8bd99ea6214b
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 9, 2021 at 10:21 PM Yair Rand  wrote:
>>
>>> 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:
>>> * This was not participatory. Neither the community nor any
>>> community-elected group were invited to look these over even to give
>>> advance feedback, much less make a decision.
>>> * This was not transparent. Even after the fact, no notes were given on
>>> what the WMF used to judge the options; no metrics, no pros-and-cons
>>> analysis of each, no general review. Nor was a list of rejected applicants
>>> made public, as far as I can see.
>>> * COI concerns: Given the lack of any mentioned standards about this (I
>>> haven't seen anything resembling the FDC's COI rules, and the WMF's general
>>> COI policy seems quite 

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Welcoming the first round of grants from the Equity Fund

[Samuel Klein]

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 of innovative ideas - and recognition for the most creative community
efforts - to have a chance of repeating that in other arenas. The amount we
invest in new outside projects and regional affiliates was modest a decade
ago, and since then has grown more slowly the internal budget.

So I was glad to see these funds earmarked last year, and the results seem
healthy; at the same time the Foundation seems to be increasing
community-overseen grantmaking, which is essential. The two are not
mutually exclusive.

S.



On Sat., Sep. 11, 2021, 3:14 p.m. Gergő Tisza,  wrote:

> 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 resources (with many staff working half-time, see [1]), and was
> trying to react to an unexpected event quickly, so I doubt it could have
> been done in a significantly more transparent or participatory manner. And
> the community was also stretched pretty thin, there were constant
> complaints of being consulted about too many things at the same time, with
> the movement strategy discussions, board election discussions, code of
> conduct discussions, branding discussions etc. going on, while people's
> personal lives were in disarray due to the lockdowns and other
> virus-related disruptions; some consultations had to be delayed, even the
> board elections had to be delayed. So I doubt the community would have had
> the capacity to practice oversight, had it been invited to.
>
> That's not to say those we shouldn't ask for more transparency and
> participation *going forward*, as those circumstances are now largely
> behind us (at least in the Global North; not sure about community capacity
> in the countries which would be the most logical beneficiaries of an equity
> fund). But we should acknowledge the severe constraints the WMF was under a
> year ago.
>
> (disclaimer: I work at the WMF, in a non-grantmaking-related position. All
> of the above is my personal opinion as a long-time community member.)
>
> [1]:
> https://medium.com/freely-sharing-the-sum-of-all-knowledge/wikimedia-coronavirus-response-people-first-8bd99ea6214b
>
> On Thu, Sep 9, 2021 at 10:21 PM Yair Rand  wrote:
>
>> 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:
>> * This was not participatory. Neither the community nor any
>> community-elected group were invited to look these over even to give
>> advance feedback, much less make a decision.
>> * This was not transparent. Even after the fact, no notes were given on
>> what the WMF used to judge the options; no metrics, no pros-and-cons
>> analysis of each, no general review. Nor was a list of rejected applicants
>> made public, as far as I can see.
>> * COI concerns: Given the lack of any mentioned standards about this (I
>> haven't seen anything resembling the FDC's COI rules, and the WMF's general
>> COI policy seems quite lacking for something like this), and given the
>> problematic history this Fund in particular has in this area, I must ask:
>> Did any staff, trustees, or committee members involved in this process have
>> any personal associations to any of the grantee organizations, and if so,
>> were they (/would they have been) required to recuse themselves from the
>> relevant decisions?
>> * The Committee appears to have committed to sharing "terms of each grant
>> and updates on their progress" on Meta, per the FAQ. I don't see any links
>> to the grant terms. Should we still expect these things?
>>
>> (A few excerpts from answers given by the recently elected, at the Q on
>> the topic of funding non-Wikimedia efforts in general:
>> "I don’t think WF has any money to spare for any other causes
>> irrespective of their worth. There’s an NGO or 100 for any cause, and WF
>> cause is exclusively Wikimedia movement support." - Victoria
>> "At this time, I'd be reluctant to start funding projects entirely
>> unrelated to Wikimedia projects." - Pundit
>> "The mission of the Wikimedia Foundation is to support and empower the
>> communities of the Wikimedia projects and the projects themselves. Among
>> the many worthy goals that one can set, we choose to pursue this one. [...]
>> The Wikimedia Foundation looks relatively big and well-resourced (in terms
>> of 

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Welcoming the first round of grants from the Equity Fund

[Gergő Tisza]

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 resources (with many staff working half-time, see [1]), and was
trying to react to an unexpected event quickly, so I doubt it could have
been done in a significantly more transparent or participatory manner. And
the community was also stretched pretty thin, there were constant
complaints of being consulted about too many things at the same time, with
the movement strategy discussions, board election discussions, code of
conduct discussions, branding discussions etc. going on, while people's
personal lives were in disarray due to the lockdowns and other
virus-related disruptions; some consultations had to be delayed, even the
board elections had to be delayed. So I doubt the community would have had
the capacity to practice oversight, had it been invited to.

That's not to say those we shouldn't ask for more transparency and
participation *going forward*, as those circumstances are now largely
behind us (at least in the Global North; not sure about community capacity
in the countries which would be the most logical beneficiaries of an equity
fund). But we should acknowledge the severe constraints the WMF was under a
year ago.

(disclaimer: I work at the WMF, in a non-grantmaking-related position. All
of the above is my personal opinion as a long-time community member.)

[1]:
https://medium.com/freely-sharing-the-sum-of-all-knowledge/wikimedia-coronavirus-response-people-first-8bd99ea6214b

On Thu, Sep 9, 2021 at 10:21 PM Yair Rand  wrote:

> 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:
> * This was not participatory. Neither the community nor any
> community-elected group were invited to look these over even to give
> advance feedback, much less make a decision.
> * This was not transparent. Even after the fact, no notes were given on
> what the WMF used to judge the options; no metrics, no pros-and-cons
> analysis of each, no general review. Nor was a list of rejected applicants
> made public, as far as I can see.
> * COI concerns: Given the lack of any mentioned standards about this (I
> haven't seen anything resembling the FDC's COI rules, and the WMF's general
> COI policy seems quite lacking for something like this), and given the
> problematic history this Fund in particular has in this area, I must ask:
> Did any staff, trustees, or committee members involved in this process have
> any personal associations to any of the grantee organizations, and if so,
> were they (/would they have been) required to recuse themselves from the
> relevant decisions?
> * The Committee appears to have committed to sharing "terms of each grant
> and updates on their progress" on Meta, per the FAQ. I don't see any links
> to the grant terms. Should we still expect these things?
>
> (A few excerpts from answers given by the recently elected, at the Q on
> the topic of funding non-Wikimedia efforts in general:
> "I don’t think WF has any money to spare for any other causes irrespective
> of their worth. There’s an NGO or 100 for any cause, and WF cause is
> exclusively Wikimedia movement support." - Victoria
> "At this time, I'd be reluctant to start funding projects entirely
> unrelated to Wikimedia projects." - Pundit
> "The mission of the Wikimedia Foundation is to support and empower the
> communities of the Wikimedia projects and the projects themselves. Among
> the many worthy goals that one can set, we choose to pursue this one. [...]
> The Wikimedia Foundation looks relatively big and well-resourced (in terms
> of money, people, etc.), and it is tempting to use some of them for other
> purposes. However, the truth is that the Wikimedia Foundation is not so
> big, and the resources are very limited. If we scatter them in too many
> different places, we will end up achieving nothing - and the Wikimedia
> projects will be the first to pay the price." - Laurentius
> I'm not going to try to clip Rosiestep's answer because I feel like a
> clipped version would risk being misrepresentative of her position. I
> recommend reading the full versions of all four (quite interesting and
> nuanced) answers at
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2021/Candidates/CandidateQ%26A/Question11
> )
>
> (There are, of course, more fundamental problems with the Fund, but let's
> leave that for another time.)
>
> Thank you.
>
> -- Yair Rand
>
> ‫בתאריך יום ד׳, 8 בספט׳ 2021 ב-10:09 מאת ‪Lisa Gruwell‬‏ <‪
> lgruw...@wikimedia.org‬‏>:‬
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> We are 

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Welcoming the first round of grants from the Equity Fund

[Andreas Kolbe]

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 any grantees based in Asia*, and our goal is to concentrate
> in those regions in our next round of funding. [...]
>
> Thanks,
> Nadee Gunasena
> Communications
> Wikimedia Foundation
>
>
For reference, Nadee, according to Wikipedia,

*Jordan ...*, officially the *Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan*,[a]
 is a country in Western
Asia .

:)

Andreas
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Welcoming the first round of grants from the Equity Fund

[Andreas Kolbe]

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.

Money was collected from donors who were told funds were urgently needed
"to defend Wikipedia's independence". A substantial part of this money has
now been dispensed to non-Wikimedia-affiliated organisations by a small,
unelected group, via an opaque process that takes place behind closed doors.

Is this a fair summary?

Andreas


On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 6:21 AM Yair Rand  wrote:

> 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:
> * This was not participatory. Neither the community nor any
> community-elected group were invited to look these over even to give
> advance feedback, much less make a decision.
> * This was not transparent. Even after the fact, no notes were given on
> what the WMF used to judge the options; no metrics, no pros-and-cons
> analysis of each, no general review. Nor was a list of rejected applicants
> made public, as far as I can see.
> * COI concerns: Given the lack of any mentioned standards about this (I
> haven't seen anything resembling the FDC's COI rules, and the WMF's general
> COI policy seems quite lacking for something like this), and given the
> problematic history this Fund in particular has in this area, I must ask:
> Did any staff, trustees, or committee members involved in this process have
> any personal associations to any of the grantee organizations, and if so,
> were they (/would they have been) required to recuse themselves from the
> relevant decisions?
> * The Committee appears to have committed to sharing "terms of each grant
> and updates on their progress" on Meta, per the FAQ. I don't see any links
> to the grant terms. Should we still expect these things?
>
> (A few excerpts from answers given by the recently elected, at the Q on
> the topic of funding non-Wikimedia efforts in general:
> "I don’t think WF has any money to spare for any other causes irrespective
> of their worth. There’s an NGO or 100 for any cause, and WF cause is
> exclusively Wikimedia movement support." - Victoria
> "At this time, I'd be reluctant to start funding projects entirely
> unrelated to Wikimedia projects." - Pundit
> "The mission of the Wikimedia Foundation is to support and empower the
> communities of the Wikimedia projects and the projects themselves. Among
> the many worthy goals that one can set, we choose to pursue this one. [...]
> The Wikimedia Foundation looks relatively big and well-resourced (in terms
> of money, people, etc.), and it is tempting to use some of them for other
> purposes. However, the truth is that the Wikimedia Foundation is not so
> big, and the resources are very limited. If we scatter them in too many
> different places, we will end up achieving nothing - and the Wikimedia
> projects will be the first to pay the price." - Laurentius
> I'm not going to try to clip Rosiestep's answer because I feel like a
> clipped version would risk being misrepresentative of her position. I
> recommend reading the full versions of all four (quite interesting and
> nuanced) answers at
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2021/Candidates/CandidateQ%26A/Question11
> )
>
> (There are, of course, more fundamental problems with the Fund, but let's
> leave that for another time.)
>
> Thank you.
>
> -- Yair Rand
>
> ‫בתאריך יום ד׳, 8 בספט׳ 2021 ב-10:09 מאת ‪Lisa Gruwell‬‏ <‪
> lgruw...@wikimedia.org‬‏>:‬
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> 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 of access, education and equity within the regions they
>> support. You can read an overview of the six grantees and their work on
>> Diff[1]. We’ve also added information about the grantees and what’s next
>> for this pilot program to our Meta page[2].
>>
>> We are happy to welcome these new grantees, and look forward to their
>> work as movement partners to support the free knowledge ecosystem. Let us
>> know if you have questions on the Talk Page[3].
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Lisa Gruwell and the Equity Fund Committee
>>
>> [1]
>> https://diff.wikimedia.org/2021/09/08/welcome-to-the-first-grantees-of-the-knowledge-equity-fund/
>>
>> [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_Equity_Fund
>> [3]
>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Knowledge_Equity_Fund=edit=1
>>
>> --
>>
>> Lisa Seitz Gruwell
>>
>> Chief 

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Welcoming the first round of grants from the Equity Fund

[Yair Rand]

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:
* This was not participatory. Neither the community nor any
community-elected group were invited to look these over even to give
advance feedback, much less make a decision.
* This was not transparent. Even after the fact, no notes were given on
what the WMF used to judge the options; no metrics, no pros-and-cons
analysis of each, no general review. Nor was a list of rejected applicants
made public, as far as I can see.
* COI concerns: Given the lack of any mentioned standards about this (I
haven't seen anything resembling the FDC's COI rules, and the WMF's general
COI policy seems quite lacking for something like this), and given the
problematic history this Fund in particular has in this area, I must ask:
Did any staff, trustees, or committee members involved in this process have
any personal associations to any of the grantee organizations, and if so,
were they (/would they have been) required to recuse themselves from the
relevant decisions?
* The Committee appears to have committed to sharing "terms of each grant
and updates on their progress" on Meta, per the FAQ. I don't see any links
to the grant terms. Should we still expect these things?

(A few excerpts from answers given by the recently elected, at the Q on
the topic of funding non-Wikimedia efforts in general:
"I don’t think WF has any money to spare for any other causes irrespective
of their worth. There’s an NGO or 100 for any cause, and WF cause is
exclusively Wikimedia movement support." - Victoria
"At this time, I'd be reluctant to start funding projects entirely
unrelated to Wikimedia projects." - Pundit
"The mission of the Wikimedia Foundation is to support and empower the
communities of the Wikimedia projects and the projects themselves. Among
the many worthy goals that one can set, we choose to pursue this one. [...]
The Wikimedia Foundation looks relatively big and well-resourced (in terms
of money, people, etc.), and it is tempting to use some of them for other
purposes. However, the truth is that the Wikimedia Foundation is not so
big, and the resources are very limited. If we scatter them in too many
different places, we will end up achieving nothing - and the Wikimedia
projects will be the first to pay the price." - Laurentius
I'm not going to try to clip Rosiestep's answer because I feel like a
clipped version would risk being misrepresentative of her position. I
recommend reading the full versions of all four (quite interesting and
nuanced) answers at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2021/Candidates/CandidateQ%26A/Question11
)

(There are, of course, more fundamental problems with the Fund, but let's
leave that for another time.)

Thank you.

-- Yair Rand

‫בתאריך יום ד׳, 8 בספט׳ 2021 ב-10:09 מאת ‪Lisa Gruwell‬‏ <‪
lgruw...@wikimedia.org‬‏>:‬

> Hi everyone,
>
> 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 of access, education and equity within the regions they
> support. You can read an overview of the six grantees and their work on
> Diff[1]. We’ve also added information about the grantees and what’s next
> for this pilot program to our Meta page[2].
>
> We are happy to welcome these new grantees, and look forward to their work
> as movement partners to support the free knowledge ecosystem. Let us know
> if you have questions on the Talk Page[3].
>
> Thank you,
>
> Lisa Gruwell and the Equity Fund Committee
>
> [1]
> https://diff.wikimedia.org/2021/09/08/welcome-to-the-first-grantees-of-the-knowledge-equity-fund/
>
> [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_Equity_Fund
> [3]
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Knowledge_Equity_Fund=edit=1
>
> --
>
> Lisa Seitz Gruwell
>
> Chief Advancement Officer
>
> Wikimedia Foundation 
>
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Welcoming the first round of grants from the Equity Fund

[Nadee Gunasena]

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
regions in our next round of funding. We are also hoping to expand the
diversity of grantees by asking the movement to share suggestions of
grantees for the next round through this form [1]. Alongside those steps,
we are continuing to evolve the Equity Fund Committee and open it up for
more community participation as the Equity Fund evolves. We'll be sharing
more details about that later this year.

For other questions, we’ll be answering questions on the Talk page [2] so
happy to address additional questions there.

Thanks,
Nadee Gunasena
Communications
Wikimedia Foundation

[1]
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSctHahuVnJQQNG2eo_3F7aB1Z2jQi1JxhNMRuzPCWLU4dJSig/viewform
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Knowledge_Equity_Fund

ᐧ

On Wed, Sep 8, 2021 at 3:59 PM Gnangarra  wrote:

> 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 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 of access, education and equity within the regions they
>> > support.
>>
>> The press release [1] mentioned further down the thread lists:
>>
>> * Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ), Jordan ($250,000):
>> * Borealis Philanthropy’s Racial Equity in Journalism Fund, United
>> States ($250,000)
>> * Howard University School of Law and the Institute for Intellectual
>> Property and Social Justice (IIPSJ), United States ($260,000):
>> * InternetLab, Brazil ($200,000)
>> * Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), Ghana ($150,000)
>> * STEM en Route to Change (SeRCH) Foundation, United States ($250,000)
>>
>> so three of the six recipients  - receiving $760,000 of $1,360,000; or
>> more than half - are in the United States.
>>
>>
>> [1]
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Welcoming the first round of grants from the Equity Fund

[Gnangarra]

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 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 of access, education and equity within the regions they
> > support.
>
> The press release [1] mentioned further down the thread lists:
>
> * Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ), Jordan ($250,000):
> * Borealis Philanthropy’s Racial Equity in Journalism Fund, United
> States ($250,000)
> * Howard University School of Law and the Institute for Intellectual
> Property and Social Justice (IIPSJ), United States ($260,000):
> * InternetLab, Brazil ($200,000)
> * Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), Ghana ($150,000)
> * STEM en Route to Change (SeRCH) Foundation, United States ($250,000)
>
> so three of the six recipients  - receiving $760,000 of $1,360,000; or
> more than half - are in the United States.
>
>
> [1]
> https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2021/09/08/wikimedia-foundation-announces-first-grant-recipients-of-new-4-5-million-equity-fund/
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Welcoming the first round of grants from the Equity Fund

[Andy Mabbett]

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 of access, education and equity within the regions they
> support.

The press release [1] mentioned further down the thread lists:

* Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ), Jordan ($250,000):
* Borealis Philanthropy’s Racial Equity in Journalism Fund, United
States ($250,000)
* Howard University School of Law and the Institute for Intellectual
Property and Social Justice (IIPSJ), United States ($260,000):
* InternetLab, Brazil ($200,000)
* Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), Ghana ($150,000)
* STEM en Route to Change (SeRCH) Foundation, United States ($250,000)

so three of the six recipients  - receiving $760,000 of $1,360,000; or
more than half - are in the United States.


[1] 
https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2021/09/08/wikimedia-foundation-announces-first-grant-recipients-of-new-4-5-million-equity-fund/

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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Welcoming the first round of grants from the Equity Fund

[Mike Peel]

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 
movement grants processes. Ideally that would also involve some level of 
public commenting process by the community.


Thanks,
Mike

On 8/9/21 16:41:38, Lisa Gruwell wrote:

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 as well.

Best,
Lisa

On Wed, Sep 8, 2021 at 8:06 AM Mike Peel > wrote:


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 it
please?

Thanks,
Mike

On 8/9/21 15:09:15, Lisa Gruwell wrote:
 > Hi everyone,
 >
 >
 > 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 of access, education and equity within the
regions
 > they support. You can read an overview of the six grantees and their
 > work on Diff[1]. We’ve also added information about the grantees and
 > what’s next for this pilot program to our Meta page[2].
 >
 >
 > We are happy to welcome these new grantees, and look forward to
their
 > work as movement partners to support the free knowledge
ecosystem. Let
 > us know if you have questions on the Talk Page[3].
 >
 >
 > Thank you,
 >
 > Lisa Gruwell and the Equity Fund Committee
 >
 >
 > [1]
 >

https://diff.wikimedia.org/2021/09/08/welcome-to-the-first-grantees-of-the-knowledge-equity-fund/



 >

>
 >
 > [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_Equity_Fund

 > >
 >
 > [3]
 >

https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Knowledge_Equity_Fund=edit=1



 >

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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Welcoming the first round of grants from the Equity Fund

[Lisa Gruwell]

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 as well.

Best,
Lisa

On Wed, Sep 8, 2021 at 8:06 AM Mike Peel  wrote:

> 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 it
> please?
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>
> On 8/9/21 15:09:15, Lisa Gruwell wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> >
> > 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 of access, education and equity within the regions
> > they support. You can read an overview of the six grantees and their
> > work on Diff[1]. We’ve also added information about the grantees and
> > what’s next for this pilot program to our Meta page[2].
> >
> >
> > We are happy to welcome these new grantees, and look forward to their
> > work as movement partners to support the free knowledge ecosystem. Let
> > us know if you have questions on the Talk Page[3].
> >
> >
> > Thank you,
> >
> > Lisa Gruwell and the Equity Fund Committee
> >
> >
> > [1]
> >
> https://diff.wikimedia.org/2021/09/08/welcome-to-the-first-grantees-of-the-knowledge-equity-fund/
> > <
> https://diff.wikimedia.org/2021/09/08/welcome-to-the-first-grantees-of-the-knowledge-equity-fund/
> >
> >
> > [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_Equity_Fund
> > 
> >
> > [3]
> >
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Knowledge_Equity_Fund=edit=1
> > <
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Knowledge_Equity_Fund=edit=1
> >
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Welcoming the first round of grants from the Equity Fund

[Mike Peel]

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 it 
please?


Thanks,
Mike

On 8/9/21 15:09:15, Lisa Gruwell wrote:

Hi everyone,


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 of access, education and equity within the regions 
they support. You can read an overview of the six grantees and their 
work on Diff[1]. We’ve also added information about the grantees and 
what’s next for this pilot program to our Meta page[2].



We are happy to welcome these new grantees, and look forward to their 
work as movement partners to support the free knowledge ecosystem. Let 
us know if you have questions on the Talk Page[3].



Thank you,

Lisa Gruwell and the Equity Fund Committee


[1] 
https://diff.wikimedia.org/2021/09/08/welcome-to-the-first-grantees-of-the-knowledge-equity-fund/ 



[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_Equity_Fund 



[3] 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Knowledge_Equity_Fund=edit=1 



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