Thanks Kirill, I will look at this in more detail soon, hopefully this week
or next week.

Regards,

Pine
On Oct 15, 2014 5:32 PM, "Kirill Lokshin" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Pine,
>
> The WMDC small grants program is described at
> http://wikimediadc.org/wiki/Grants (with more exhaustive detail available
> at http://wikimediadc.org/wiki/Grants_policy if you're curious).  The
> program isn't limited to recognized affiliates, so there's no need to wait
> for your user group agreement to be finalized.
>
> As far as funding is concerned, the maximum grant size is $2,500, but we
> evaluate each request based on budget availability and fit to mission.  We
> don't necessarily *require* itemized costs, but we do need enough detail on
> what the money will be spent on to evaluate whether it aligns our
> charitable mission; providing an itemized budget is typically the easiest
> (but not the only) way to do this.
>
> Regards,
> Kirill
>
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 8:12 PM, Pine W <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi Kirill,
>>
>> Cascadia had a good turnout last night for our regular Seattle meeting,
>> with more than 10 people in attendance, some of whom were first time
>> attendees.
>>
>> Attendees suggested that we have more signage indicating that they were
>> in the right venue. Previously we have discussed name badges, and a third
>> person suggested previously that we could have a fund for travel
>> reimbursement for costs like bus fares. Are these reasonable requests to
>> combine with a grant request from WMDC for service-of-process and nonprofit
>> legal registration costs? We could itemize the costs in the grant request
>> if you wish, although if WMDC is willing to provide an all-inclusive grant
>> for about $400 to be used at our discretion and read about how that money
>> was used in a combined post-action grant report, that might be easier for
>> us and for WMDC. Please advise on what funds WMDC would consider and
>> whether we would need to wait for Affcom and WMF Legal to finalize the
>> affiliation agreement before applying for startup funding from WMDC.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Pine
>>
>
>
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