Thanks for calling this out and working on this aspect, Kassia! A critical bottleneck for supporting emerging communities is a plan for comprehensive regional microgrant programs, run through affiliate groups. We should set these up where they don't exist so as to cover the world.
S On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 1:58 PM Kassia Echavarri-Queen < [email protected]> wrote: > Dear Wikimedians, > > The report created by my colleagues in the Advancement Team is useful for > providing aggregated data on the distribution of grants since 2016 and has > helped the Community Resources team understand where we stand today in > terms of equity. The current grants have seen an increase in access from > emerging Wikimedia communities. However, the distribution of funds to those > communities is still lagging far behind. With the relaunch of the Grants > strategy > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Resources/Grants_Strategy_Relaunch_2020-2021/Proposed_programs> > we will work towards overcoming this challenge and shape an equitable > future for the distribution of grants resources across the movement. > > The information from this report has been analyzed and already > incorporated into the current grants strategy relaunch process. In the > newly proposed grants strategy a priority is to substantially increase > funding in emerging communities also taking into account the need for peer > learning and knowledge sharing. The feedback period is still open, please > help the grants relaunch process by letting us know how to adapt and > improve the strategy. > > The new grants strategy is aligned with the strategic direction of the > movement and is founded on the principles > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Recommendations/Movement_Strategy_Principles#Subsidiarity_&_Self-Management> > of Subsidiarity & Self management, Equity & Empowerment, Collaboration & > Cooperation, and People Centeredness, as well as efficient data and > iterative practices. This has grounded our approach in the values > identified by the movement. > > We are grateful to all the community members who have already helped to > enrich this strategy relaunch. Please come to the grants meta page to > engage, learn more about the proposed changes, and to provide your > feedback.The month of feedback on the new grants strategy proposal will > come to a close Monday April 5th, 2021. > > All the best, > Kassia Echavarri-Queen > > On Behalf of the CR team > > > [1] Grants Relaunch Meta Page > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Resources/Grants_Strategy_Relaunch_2020-2021 > [2] Movement Strategy principles - > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Recommendations/Movement_Strategy_Principles#Subsidiarity_&_Self-Management > > On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 10:25 AM Guillaume Paumier <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi folks, >> >> I wanted to share the link to a report covering grants given out by the >> Wikimedia Foundation during the 2019−2020 fiscal year. This was inspired by >> the Fundraising reports that fundraising teams have prepared for many >> years. The intent is to publish similar yearly reports for grantmaking >> going forward. >> >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grantmaking/Reports/2019-2020 >> >> Questions and comments are welcome, preferably on the talk page. >> >> -- >> Guillaume Paumier >> (he/him) >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l >> New messages to: [email protected] >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >> <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> >> > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > -- Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266
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