Hello all,
I'm the program officer for rapid grants and I'm here to answer your
questions. I am also attending Wikimania and plan to be at the Wiki Loves
Monuments Workshop session on Saturday 11:30am - 12:30pm. Please feel free
to ask me your questions there or if you see me around the conference. And
of course you can also send me an email if you're not at Wikimania but
please be patient as I will be delayed with my response because of
Wikimania.
Best regards,
Woubzena
Woubzena Jifar
Program Officer
Rapid Grants
Wikimedia Foundation <http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home>
User: WJifar (WMF)
On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 3:57 PM, Lodewijk <lodewijk(a)effeietsanders.org>
wrote:
Hi all,
If you are organizing Wiki Loves Monuments in a country without existing
funding structures for Wiki Loves Monuments, you have the possibility to
request a 'Rapid Grant' at the Wikimedia Foundation. This is a low barrier
program that should make it easy to request smaller grants with minimal
effort. You can find more information about the program here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid
The requirements and documentation may seem a little overwhelming, but
it's really not that impossible if you have a clear idea what you need the
money for. Writing a proposal hopefully takes between 30 and 60 minutes,
and the report about the same amount of time. You can use these funds for
example to fund prizes for your national winners, to organize a prize
ceremony, to organize a photo workshop and/or photo walk, etc. This is all
optional, but a great opportunity to get more people involved in your group!
However, there is a deadline here. To maximize the chance that you
actually get your funds before the start of the competition on 1 September,
you must make your application *BEFORE 1 AUGUST*. That still leaves you
plenty of time, but it does mean you should ideally start now. Please note
that we did reach an agreement with the grants team that Wiki Loves
Monuments grants can, by exception, also submit between 16 and 31 July. If
you submit earlier, it can also be approved earlier.
If you need any help writing a grant request, you can ask me or someone
from the grants team for support. If you want to meet at Wikimania to
discuss or draft together, that is totally possible!
Best,
Lodewijk
_______________________________________________
WLM-Announce mailing list
WLM-Announce(a)lists.wikimedia.org
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wlm-announce
_______________________________________________
Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list
WikiLovesMonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments
http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org
_______________________________________________
Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list
WikiLovesMonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org