Dear Wikimedia Colleagues:

As you may know, Annual Plan Grants are funds allocated to support an organization’s annual plan to achieve mission objectives, and the Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) is a group of Wikimedians who make recommendations to the WMF Board about Annual Plan Grant (APG) proposals. Proposals to the APG program are accepted twice each year, in April and October. You may read more about the APG process and upcoming milestones here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Information.

Today, we are pleased to confirm that six of the seven organizations that submitted letters of intent for 2014-2015 Round 2 of the APG process are eligible to submit proposal forms for 2014-2015 Round 2 by the upcoming *1 April 2015* proposal form due date. Only eligible organizations that have already submitted letters of intent will be able to submit proposal forms using their proposal hub pages that were created at the time the letters were submitted.

The eligible organizations are The Centre for Internet and Society, Wikimedia Armenia, Wikimédia France, Wikimedia Italia, Wikimedia Norge, and Wikimedia South Africa. One organization that submitted a letter of intent for 2014-2015 Round 2 withdrew its intent to apply on 10 March: Wikimedia Suomi. You may view a detailed summary of how eligibility was determined here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Eligibility/2014-2015_round2 .

Proposal forms for Annual Plan Grants will be due by 1 April 2015. Here are some upcoming milestones: * Eligibility confirmed: 15 March 2015

** Proposals due: by 1 April 2015*

* Community review: 1 April 2015 - 30 April 2015

* Staff assessments published: by 8 May 2015

* FDC deliberations: middle of May 2015

* FDC recommendations published: by 1 June 2015

* Board decision: by 1 July 2015

* Start of new grant terms: 1 July 2015

All eligible organizations must continue to comply with any agreements with WMF and meet all requirements listed in column (T) of the eligibility checklist in order to maintain eligibility until and after a grant is received, and the organization may not be able to receive a grant (or funds may be withheld) if the organization stops being eligible at any point. *Once proposal forms are submitted, a 30-day public review period will begin on **1 April 2015, when comments on the proposal forms are considered as an important input into the FDC process. *

We encourage you to contact FDCSupport@wikimedia.org with any questions about the eligibility process or the proposal process. If you have general questions or concerns, you may also post them here on Meta: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Comments.

Best regards from FDC staff!

Winifred Olliff

Program Officer Wikimedia Foundation