On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 10:30 AM, Siko Bouterse sbouterse@wikimedia.orgwrote:
On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 11:42 PM, <sgardner@wikimedia.orgwikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org
wrote:
Anasuya will be responsible for running all grantmaking processes (for both individuals and entities) and for helping movement entities, like chapters and thematic organizations, to develop and mature. Reporting to Anasuya will be Asaf Bartov, Jessie Wild, Oona Castro and Siko Bouterse, as well as a Senior Program Officer for the FDC (a new position that will be filled within the next month or so).
- The Senior Program Officer will be responsible for facilitating the
FDC process, which recommends funding allocations for the largest and wealthiest Wikimedia organizations such as Wikimedia Germany and Wikimedia France.
- Asaf continues to be responsible for the Wikimedia Grants Program,
supporting younger, smaller Wikimedia organizations like Wikimedia Venezuela and Wikimedia Mexico, and for finding non-Wikimedia organizations that we can fund to carry out good programmatic activities in developing countries, particularly where there are no chapters.
- Jessie will be responsible for evaluation and learning for all our
grantmaking --- both helping us internally optimize our processes, and helping us and the grant recipients assess organizations? development (for Anasuya) and the impact of the programs funded by movement dollars (for Frank).
- Oona will continue to run the Brazil program. Consistent with the
Narrowing Focus plan, she is actively seeking a partner to continue the work in Brazil within a grants structure similar to the one we recently negotiated with CIS in India.
- Siko is taking over responsibility from Asaf for all funding for
individuals. This will make it possible for us to grow our individual grant-making, and it will also free up Asaf to do more small organization development. Siko will also be responsible for documentation and analysis of all grants except the ones funded by the FDC. It?s important for us to grow grantmaking to individuals because individuals create 99% of the value in the projects. They do it with practically no funding, but in some cases a little money will be able to make something great happen.
Hi all, As Sue mentioned, we're looking at growing WMF's grant-making to individuals. This allows us to accomplish the goals of narrowing focus (on WMF's capacity as grant-makers, in this case), while finding new ways to support projects led by individual community members. Some more specifics are on meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Individual_Engagement_Grants Please share your thoughts on-wiki if possible. Thanks!
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Siko Bouterse Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
Likewise, we're starting to put up some initial thinking regarding Learning & Evaluation for Grantmaking & Evaluation! https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grantmaking_and_Programs/Learning_%26_Evalua...
Feel free to jump in on-wiki as it is being developed; definitely work in progress :)
Jessie