George Herbert wrote:

The US Government is funding $5m for up to 5 organizations working on "how to use new media and technology to increase participation and education in the middle east and africa", to paraphrase badly...

http://mepi.state.gov/opportunities/129624.htm

That's interesting, and I'd encourage interested parties to explore this possibility. For the Wikimedia Foundation itself, our approach for the time being does not include pursuing government grants. Among other things, the administrative and reporting overhead such grants require are not the optimal use of our resources.

--Michael Snow