Dear Wikimedians,

On behalf of the Community Resources Team, I want to share some updates regarding the Regional Grant Committees.

We have received many great applications from Wikimedians across the globe and are excited to move to the next steps in the process.

We have extended the deadline to apply for regional committees till 12 July 2021. As we have received a number of requests for more time to send in applications.

The Community Resources team will be organising the first round of orientation and training meetings for Regional Grants Committee members during mid July 2021. Based on the current size and composition of the committees and input of the committee members we will invite some additional members to complement the existing skills and fill in the missing expertise.

Please apply and encourage Wikimedians from your communities to apply to the Regional Grant Committees.

We hope to see you during the office hours being organised across the regions. Timing and other details regarding the office hours can be found here [1].

Regards,

Tanveer Hasan  

[1].https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Resources/Grants_Strategy_Relaunch_2020-2021/Get_involved#Office_hours

ಬುಧ, ಮೇ 26, 2021 ರಂದು 03:18 ಪೂರ್ವಾಹ್ನ ಸಮಯಕ್ಕೆ ರಂದು Florence Devouard <fdevouard@gmail.com> ಅವರು ಬರೆದಿದ್ದಾರೆ:

Hello Tanveer


Thank you for those answers.

Some questions have been moved to meta as suggested, but have not received any answer yet. Can you please have a look ?

Thanks

Florence


Le 21/05/2021 à 19:12, Tanveer Hasan a écrit :
Hi Florence, 

I wanted to bring to your attention that the CR team has responded to your questions on the discussion page of the Community Resources/Grants Strategy Relaunch 2020-2021. We are doing this (responding on discussion page) because of the importance of the questions that you have raised and hope that the questions and responses would be of help to other community members as well. We request community members to post their questions directly on the discussion page. 

Regards, 

P.S: CR team is going to be copy pasting all the questions raised here on the mailing list on the discussion page of the Grants Strategy Relaunch for the sake of continuity and having the option to translate questions and responses in multiple languages for the benefit of other community members. Please allow us a little time to respond to the questions that have already been raised in this email thread. 

ಶುಕ್ರ, ಮೇ 21, 2021 ರಂದು 06:03 ಅಪರಾಹ್ನ ಸಮಯಕ್ಕೆ ರಂದು Florence Devouard <fdevouard@gmail.com> ಅವರು ಬರೆದಿದ್ದಾರೆ:

Hello Julia


I apology if I missed a step at some point.
In this application, I read that

"All the current grant committees (both active and inactive) will cease to function with the implementation of the new grants strategy of the Community Resources Team effective from 1 July 2021. We strongly encourage current and former committee members to apply to be part of the regional committees."

So... is it to understand that absolutely ALL grants provided by the Wikimedia Foundation will go through those yet uncreated committees ?

Does that mean all current recipients of APG grants will have to address their annual request to those yet unknown teams in the future ? (september in some cases)

To whom will grants requests have to be addressed to for those groups who are not related to a specific region ? Do they have to pick up a region of their choice and consider themselves attached to it, or will they be appointed a region by default ?

Sorry if the questions seem to be unrelated to your call but...
1) I am trying to understand and measure how much unstable our current situation is as grantees so that we can anticipate...
2) I am trying to evaluate the responsibilities that will be on the shoulders of those new regional committee members


Best


Florence


Le 21/05/2021 à 08:06, Julia Brungs a écrit :
Dear all,

We hope this email finds you well and safe. The COVID 19 situation continues to affect many of us across the globe and our thoughts are with everyone affected. We are also aware that there are several processes currently in progress that demand volunteer time and we do not want to add more work to anyone's plate.

We do want to draw your attention to our new Regional Committees for Grants though as they are an opportunity for you to have an active say in the future of our Movement!

📣 So today, we invite you to join our new Regional Committees for Grants! 📣

We encourage Wikimedians and Free Knowledge advocates to be part of the new Regional Committees that the WMF Community Resources team is setting up as part of the grants strategy relaunch [1]. You will be a key strategic thought partner to help understand the complexities of any region, provide knowledge and expertise to applicants, to support successful movement activities, and make funding decisions for grant applications in the region.

👉Find out more on meta [2].

Regional Committees will be established for the following regions:
  • Middle East and Africa
  • SAARC [3] region (Includes Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka)
  • East, Southeast Asia, and Pacific (ESEAP) region
  • Latin America (LATAM) and The Caribbean
  • United States and Canada
  • Northern and Western Europe
  • Central and Eastern Europe (CEE)
👉All details about the Committees and how to apply can be found on meta [4]. Applications have to be submitted by June 4, 2021!  

If you have any questions or comments, please use the meta discussion page [5].

Please do share this announcement widely with your Network.
Best wishes,
Julia on behalf of the Community Resources Team


--
Julia Brungs
Senior Community Relations Specialist 
Wikimedia Foundation		 

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