Dear Jessie,
Many congratulations!
It's been a pleasure interacting and working with you. Best wishes for the
new adventure. Sounds exciting!
See you around.
Cheers,
Vishnu
On Friday, 19 September 2014, rupert THURNER <rupert.thurner(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
hi Jessie, a big +1 to what the others already
mentioned. if your
influence
makes the path out of poverty, copyrighted with all
rights reserved, in
future a cc-by-sa path i d be even more delighted.
rupert
Am 19.09.2014 00:35 schrieb "Jessie Wild" <jwild(a)wikimedia.org>rg>:
> Thanks so much to everyone! It has been such an honor to join this
> movement, and the things we have experimented with and done have been
> exciting and fruitful. I know we spend a lot of time talking about our
> problems welcoming in newbies, but I felt so supported by so many of you
> from my first day four years ago when I was brand new. Thank you for your
> openness, your innovative ideas, your challenges to my thinking, and your
> partnership in building things together.
>
> One point of clarification: I'll actually be working with
IDEO.org
> <http://ideo.org/>, which is a spin-off of IDEO (and yes, Jane, that is
> the
> Wikipedia article for IDEO) It is a separate organization focused on
> partnering with people in need to design paths out of poverty. I'm very
> humbled for this opportunity, and look forward to sharing learning! I'm
> pasting some info below with the announcement.
>
> Obviously, stay in touch. I will be around :)
>
> We’ve had an action-packed spring at
IDEO.org
> with lots of travel, a decision on our next class of
> Global Fellows, and a very exciting project from
> the archive heading to market. Here’s what we’ve
> been up to this spring and summer.WELCOME 2015 GLOBAL FELLOWSAfter
> reviewing 656 applications—all of which inspired and excited us—we’ve
> chosen the 2015 class of Global Fellows! They hail from Malawi, Ireland,
> Indiana, and the UK. They are doctors, inventors, entrepreneurs, and
global
> connectors, all with a dedication to elevating the
poor through design.
Let
> us introduce William Kamkwamba, Rebecca Hope,
Jessie Wild, and John
> Collery! We can’t wait to see what change they'll make, what good they’ll
> do.
>
>
>
> *Copyright © 2014
IDEO.org, All rights reserved.*
>
> On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 1:28 PM, Everton Zanella Alvarenga <
> tom(a)okfn.org.br>
> wrote:
>
> > Congratulations, Jessie!
> >
> > It is super cool that you will bring your talent to other places! It
was
> a
> > pleasure to know and work with you! Thanks for everything you did for
the
> > Wikimedia movement and that you taught me
whilst I had the opportunity
to
> > work together! You rock!
> >
> > P. S. We need create a page about IDEO in Portuguese, then I'll keep
> > supporting you to learn our language. :P (could be a start!)
> >
> > Abraços!
> >
> > Tom
> >
> > 2014-09-18 14:30 GMT-03:00 Anasuya Sengupta <asengupta(a)wikimedia.org>rg>:
> >
> > Dear friends and colleagues,
> >>
> >> Many of who have already heard from Jessie in multiple ways, but for
> those
> >> who haven't: Jessie Wild, who currently heads the Learning and
> Evaluation
> >> team in the Grantmaking department at WMF, is leaving for a year's
> >> fellowship with Ideo.[1] Her last day at the Foundation is tomorrow.
> >>
> >>
> >> We are going to miss her. Jessie has been an extraordinary and
integral
> >> part of WMF for the last four years, and
demonstrated her initiative,
> >> insight and leadership in each of the positions she’s ably held here.
> For
> >> many of you, you may remember Jessie's first role was part of the
> >> consultant team working on the 5 year strategy. Most recently and
> >> importantly, she’s led the Learning and Evaluation team in the past
year
> >> to
> >> do some significant baseline research and impact analyses of our
grants
> >> and
> >> programs across the movement. This is work that lays the foundation
for
> a
> >> great deal of our strategic vision and direction going forward. Thank
> you
> >> so much, Jessie, for all your strategic leadership, but even more:
thank
> >> you for who you are, and the heart you’ve
always brought to your team,
> WMF
> >> and the communities we support.
> >>
> >> We are hoping that Jessie will rejoin us when she’s completed this
> >> brilliant opportunity at IDEO (she’s one of four chosen from over 450
> >> applicants!). However, the work we are doing with all of you on impact
> and
> >> strategic outcomes for the movement is urgent and will need to be
ramped
> >> up
> >> even further over this year. We will be opening up this position to
lead
> >> the L&E team soon, and keep you
posted on it.
> >>
> >> Jessie, thank you again for all your manifold contributions.
> >>
> >> Warmly,
> >>
> >> Anasuya
> >>
> >> [1]
http://www.ideo.org/fellows
> >>
> >> --
> >>
> >>
> >> *Anasuya SenguptaSenior Director of GrantmakingWikimedia Foundation*
> >>
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