Ah, thanks Alex. In this case I guess I will cover the cost personally and request reimbursement later. If we approach GAC for startup funds, that request is likely to be over the $500 threshold.
Pine On Nov 12, 2014 11:22 AM, "Alex Wang" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Pine and Cascadia Wikimedians, > > Great to hear the user group is planning for startup costs and events for > the next year. Typically, we do not accept proposals under $500 (see > eligibility > requirements > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/Eligibility_requirements>). > This policy was put in place to maximize the Grant Advisory Committee, > grant requestor, and staff's time. > > We would suggest that you either (1) fund the event yourselves, save the > receipts, and then include a request for reimbursement in your first grant > (normally we do not encourage retrospective grant requests, but this would > be an exception) or (2) request a grant now for at least $500 for small > events covering a year or so. > > Please let me know if you have any questions. Happy to help! > > Cheers, > > Alex > > > > On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 7:56 PM, Pine W <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Cascadians, >> >> I hope you are enjoying the holiday today. >> >> December will soon be here, and with it our holiday party. Because of the >> delays of our User Group application we are significantly behind the >> timeline that I anticipated when I first discussed the possibility of a >> holiday party with TA3M. I'd like to suggest that I personally make a >> request to GAC for about $50-$75 for food and non-alcoholic beverage >> expenses for the party, because I want to make sure that GAC has time to >> process this request before the party happens. Please let me know if there >> are any concerns. If not I will submit a request to GAC soon. >> >> Thanks, >> Pine >> > > > > -- > Alex Wang > Program Officer > Project & Event Grants > Wikimedia Foundation <http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home> > +1 415-839-6885 > Skype: alexvwang >
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