Hi Ruby,
Thanks for your question. Grantees receiving Simple Annual Plan Grants are
not eligible for additional funding through Rapid Grants, so you do not
need to apply through Rapid Grants to hold an Wikipedia20 anniversary
event.
Affiliates are able to request a reallocation funding from their SAPG
budget to support this kind of event. This can come from a miscellaneous
budget that you mentioned, but funding can also be reallocated from any
other budget where there is underspend that could be used for these
activities. Please contact simple(a)wikimedia.org to request a reallocation
if you need to.
With thanks,
Chris
*Chris Schilling* (him/his/they/their)
User:I JethroBT (WMF)
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:I_JethroBT_(WMF)>
Senior Program Officer, Wikimedia Foundation Grants
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
On Fri, Oct 2, 2020 at 5:45 PM ruby damenshie-brown <rubydbrown08(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Hello Samir,
I want to make an enquiry on behalf of Open Foundation West Africa.
We will be glad to host a Wikipedia birthday event at our end but what we
want to be sure is that we have a SAPG grant do we still have to apply for
the rapid grant or we should spend from our miscellaneous budget.
We will be glad to know your advice on this.
Regards,
Ruby D-Brown
Administrative Executive
On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 9:06 PM Samir Elsharbaty <
selsharbaty(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
Hi everyone,
(Apologies for cross-posting.)
As part of the upcoming celebrations surrounding Wikipedia's 20th
birthday[1], the Wikimedia Foundation is publishing a short optional
survey[2] that will help us understand the needs of people who would like
to host a birthday event. The survey is expected to take three to five
minutes to fill in and will remain open until 23:59 UTC on Wednesday, 30
September 2020.
Before taking the survey, please review the privacy statement policy[3].
We would also like to announce that the Foundation will be supporting
Wikipedia 20 anniversary celebration events through multiple grant
programs:
* Rapid Grants[4] to support celebration events up to 2000 USD.
* Additional funding for Conference & Events grantees (e.g. for a
regional
or thematic conference) who wish to incorporate a
celebration event to an
existing conference.
* Conference & Event Grants[5] to support celebration events for more
than
2000 USD.*
*Round one applications for conference & event grants [5] is now open
until
28 September 2020.
On behalf of the Wikipedia 20 team, Samir Elsharbaty
[1] Wikipedia 20 meta page:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_20
[2] Survey link:
https://wikimedia.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_4GyxYcdRSSM5M8J
[3] Privacy statement:
https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_20_Community_Feedback_Surve…
[4] Rapid grants page on meta:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid
[5] Conference grants page on meta:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Conference
Samir Elsharbaty (he/him)
Brand Associate
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
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