Congrats! Good job! 2015-12-17 17:41 GMT+01:00 Christophe Henner <christophe.hen...@wikimedia.fr >:
> Hi everyone, > > A quick email to share with you a good news on our side. > > A few month ago, Wikimedia France started a process to apply for a third > party certification called IDEAS. This certification is the first step for > us in a process to get recognized Wikimedia France as a serious > organisation that can be formally trusted by donors. > > IDEAS label is hard to get as you have to reach high criterias on 3 grounds > : > * Governance > * Accounting > * Actions effectiveness > > The process took a little over 6 month, and required us to provide them > with documents, interviews and explanations of what we are and what we’re > doing. > > I’m proud to say that thanks to the work of many, and especially our staff, > we received it with flying colors. Usually, IDEAS grant the label and > includes recommendations for the organization to even do better. > > They failed to provide any recommendation in our case and expressed large > congratulations for exceeding their expectations. > > Second step, starting now, is to get formal recognition of Wikimedia France > as a General Interest organisation by the french government. Around 10 > non-profits get such recognition every year, and right now only 633 > organisations have it. > > We hope to get it in the coming month. > > All the best, > > Christophe HENNER | Président > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > › Mail : christophe.hen...@wikimedia.fr > › Mobile : +33(0)6 50 66 47 39 > › Tel : +33(0)5 62 89 12 01 > › Twitter : @schiste > ----------------------------------------------------- > Wikimédia France | Association pour le libre partage de la connaissance | > Visitez notre blog http://blog.wikimedia.fr > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> -- -- Àlex Hinojo / Kippelboy Programme Manager / Director de projectes Amical Wikimedia www.wikimedia.cat @kippelboy / @Kippelboy_cat / @AmicalWikimedia ------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>