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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