We are sending this message to
select community mailing lists and all previous recipients of
a Wikimedia Foundation Rapid Grant. We have three
announcements regarding the Rapid Grants Program:
We are very happy to announce we
have hired a Program Officer for Rapid Grants -- Woubzena
Jifar! She started at WMF on November 13th. Over the last year
we have struggled to keep up with the growing demand for Rapid
Grants and are excited to be able to add capacity to our team
to better (and more rapidly) support the Wikimedia
communities. Please see her staff bio here:
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:WJifar_(WMF).
You can contact her at
wjifar@wikimedia.org or
rapidgrants@wikimedia.org.
2. Three grant cap for individuals, groups, and
organizations
Beginning December 1, 2017 any individual, group, or
organization will only be allowed to have three open grants
at any one time [1]. This includes both Rapid Grants and
Project Grants. For example, you can have 2 Rapid Grants and
1 Project Grant, 3 Rapid Grants, etc. This is to ensure that
grantees and project managers have enough capacity to reach
their goals and meet the requirements of the grant
agreement. Conference Grants are not included in this
cap. Annual Plan Grantees are not eligible for Rapid or
Project Grants.
3. Rapid Grants will be closed December 18, 2017 -
January 14, 2018
We will not be accepting new grant proposals December
18-January 14. The last day to submit a new proposal
before the end of the year will be December 15th. This
will give us a week before our offices close for the
remainder of 2017 to review and make decisions. We will
begin accepting new proposals again on Monday, January
15th.
Cheers,
Alex