Thanks Kirill, I will look at this in more detail soon, hopefully this week
or next week.
Regards,
Pine
On Oct 15, 2014 5:32 PM, "Kirill Lokshin" <kirill.lokshin(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Hi Pine,
The WMDC small grants program is described at
http://wikimediadc.org/wiki/Grants (with more exhaustive detail available
at
http://wikimediadc.org/wiki/Grants_policy if you're curious). The
program isn't limited to recognized affiliates, so there's no need to wait
for your user group agreement to be finalized.
As far as funding is concerned, the maximum grant size is $2,500, but we
evaluate each request based on budget availability and fit to mission. We
don't necessarily *require* itemized costs, but we do need enough detail on
what the money will be spent on to evaluate whether it aligns our
charitable mission; providing an itemized budget is typically the easiest
(but not the only) way to do this.
Regards,
Kirill
On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 8:12 PM, Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Kirill,
Cascadia had a good turnout last night for our regular Seattle meeting,
with more than 10 people in attendance, some of whom were first time
attendees.
Attendees suggested that we have more signage indicating that they were
in the right venue. Previously we have discussed name badges, and a third
person suggested previously that we could have a fund for travel
reimbursement for costs like bus fares. Are these reasonable requests to
combine with a grant request from WMDC for service-of-process and nonprofit
legal registration costs? We could itemize the costs in the grant request
if you wish, although if WMDC is willing to provide an all-inclusive grant
for about $400 to be used at our discretion and read about how that money
was used in a combined post-action grant report, that might be easier for
us and for WMDC. Please advise on what funds WMDC would consider and
whether we would need to wait for Affcom and WMF Legal to finalize the
affiliation agreement before applying for startup funding from WMDC.
Thanks,
Pine