On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 10:30 AM, Siko Bouterse <sbouterse(a)wikimedia.org>wrote;wrote:
On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 11:42 PM,
<sgardner@wikimedia.org<wikimedia-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!
Likewise, we're starting to put up some initial thinking regarding Learning
& Evaluation for Grantmaking & Evaluation!
Feel free to jump in on-wiki as it is being developed; definitely work in
progress :)
Jessie
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