Thanks Delphine!

Yes that makes sense. For the last couple of years it's felt like 80%+ of FDC grants have been basically been renewals of similar amounts to stable, effective organisations. So the process is arguably over-engineered for that, and a simple renewal process will largely reach the same outcomes.

Presumably there will still be some steps WMF can take in the event of serious management/governance problems in a grantee organisation.

Chris

On Thu, 26 Apr 2018, 10:08 Delphine Ménard, dmenard@wikimedia.org wrote:

Hi Chris,

Thanks for your question. We have been planning to share an update of what will happen within the FDC process as part of next year's annual plan and your question came before that announcement. I'm sorry about that. Before sharing information with everyone, our team wanted to discuss the approach with FDC-APG grantees--those who would be most affected by changes to annual plan grants next year.

The members of the Funds Dissemination Committee, our team (Community Resources) and the APG grantee organizations are an integral part of implementing the strategic direction. We want to make sure that everyone has the time and resources to dedicate to this work. As a result, we are proposing some changes to the FDC process followed in previous years.

The Foundation budget for APG grants will remain stable for the coming fiscal year. This will give each APG recipient the opportunity to resubmit at their current level of funding. This should lighten the demands on recipients by enabling them to submit a summary of their existing program plans and budgets, with no additional proposal required. Since this would work more like a grant renewal, there will be no FDC deliberations, and no staff assessment.

Instead, we'll use the time and resources to work with the grantee organizations on developing their program plans during the year, by having FDC members and staff participate in report reviews or strategic discussions. The FDC has also been talking about reviewing and assessing their role and the role of unrestricted annual plan grants in disseminating movement funds. These conversations will happen hand in hand with the ongoing movement strategy process.

We will be sharing more information and updates on this mailing list and on Meta and I look forward to your contribution to this process. In the meantime, I hope that we can count on you for reviewing this current round of FDC proposals https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2017-2018_round_2.

Best,

Delphine

On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 7:47 PM, Chris Keating <chriskeatingwiki@gmail.com

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Hello,

I read in a Facebook discussion about the Wikimedia Conference that the Annual Plan Grants are being paused (or stopped or suspended or something) shortly, presumably after the end of the Round 2 deliberations that are going on.

Can't see any information about this on the list, or the Grantmaking team pages.

Is this right? If so I wondered what the rationale might be?

Thanks!

Chris

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