On Wed, 8 Sept 2021 at 15:09, Lisa Gruwell <lgruw...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> We are excited to share that we have chosen the first round of grantees for > the Knowledge Equity Fund pilot. The Equity Fund Committee selected six > grantees across the Middle East, Africa, and North and South America who > focus on issues of access, education and equity within the regions they > support. The press release [1] mentioned further down the thread lists: * Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ), Jordan ($250,000): * Borealis Philanthropy’s Racial Equity in Journalism Fund, United States ($250,000) * Howard University School of Law and the Institute for Intellectual Property and Social Justice (IIPSJ), United States ($260,000): * InternetLab, Brazil ($200,000) * Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), Ghana ($150,000) * STEM en Route to Change (SeRCH) Foundation, United States ($250,000) so three of the six recipients - receiving $760,000 of $1,360,000; or more than half - are in the United States. [1] https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2021/09/08/wikimedia-foundation-announces-first-grant-recipients-of-new-4-5-million-equity-fund/ -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l Public archives at https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/FEBPDFGOYWVEDMZP352UVJDXC5U7IR5E/ To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org
