The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation has decided to generously support us with $500,000 in operational funding. More information in the press release:
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Hewlwett_Fdn_grant_August...
This is not a project-based grant like the Stanton and Ford initiatives, but designed to advance the mission of the Wikimedia Foundation as a whole. We're very grateful to Hewlett for their support! :-) It comes out of Hewlett's Open Educational Resources initiative, which is an acknowledgment that Wikimedia is an important part of the OER movement.
Big thanks to Sara Crouse for her work on the proposal that led to this grant.
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 5:18 PM, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation has decided to generously support us with $500,000 in operational funding. More information in the press release:
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Hewlwett_Fdn_grant_August...
This is not a project-based grant like the Stanton and Ford initiatives, but designed to advance the mission of the Wikimedia Foundation as a whole. We're very grateful to Hewlett for their support! :-) It comes out of Hewlett's Open Educational Resources initiative, which is an acknowledgment that Wikimedia is an important part of the OER movement.
That's great. Congratulations.
Big thanks to Sara Crouse for her work on the proposal that led to this grant.
Thanks Sara!
2009/8/21 Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org:
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation has decided to generously support us with $500,000 in operational funding. More information in the press release:
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Hewlwett_Fdn_grant_August...
This is not a project-based grant like the Stanton and Ford initiatives, but designed to advance the mission of the Wikimedia Foundation as a whole. We're very grateful to Hewlett for their support! :-) It comes out of Hewlett's Open Educational Resources initiative, which is an acknowledgment that Wikimedia is an important part of the OER movement.
Big thanks to Sara Crouse for her work on the proposal that led to this grant.
Congratulations! That is really good news.
Good work and kudos to the Hewletts.
/Lennart
2009/8/21 Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com
2009/8/21 Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org:
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation has decided to generously support us with $500,000 in operational funding. More information in the press release:
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Hewlwett_Fdn_grant_August...
This is not a project-based grant like the Stanton and Ford initiatives, but designed to advance the mission of the Wikimedia Foundation as a whole. We're very grateful to Hewlett for their support! :-) It comes out of Hewlett's Open Educational Resources initiative, which is an acknowledgment that Wikimedia is an important part of the OER movement.
Big thanks to Sara Crouse for her work on the proposal that led to this
grant.
Congratulations! That is really good news.
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On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 7:44 PM, Lennart Guldbrandssonwikihannibal@gmail.com wrote:
Good work and kudos to the Hewletts.
Indeed. Well done to all concerned.
The Hewlett site has a contact page and I have sent them a heartfelt thank you message giving them a little perspective on what Wikipedia means to me.
I'm entirely unsure whether it would be a good idea to send them lots of thank you posts: maybe it would be more annoying than anything? On the other hand perhaps it would make them beam with pleasure. Hard to say. But if you do want to thank them, and you think they'd be pleased to hear from us, the contact page is here:
wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org