How to begin applying for General Support Funds
Important dates
A general timeline for this round [1]has been published on Meta-wiki.
A recommended deadline for General Support Fund proposals is 30 November 2021. However, if you need more time to prepare your proposal for any reason, please get in touch with me as soon as possible. I am happy to work together with you to confirm a different arrangement for submitting your application.
Getting support before submitting your proposal
Conversation hours are available this month (SAARC,Northern and Western Europe, ESEAP) [4],[5],[6] for questions regarding your General Support Fund applications using Google Meet. Please refer to the Meta page for information on joining the meetings.
If scheduled office hours do not work well for you, or if you would like more dedicated time to discuss needs or questions please reach out via email.
The budget template [7] is available to help you consider how to categorize different kinds of expenses but is not required to use. Please feel free to continue using the existing budget templates you have been using for Simple APG or APG for this application. If there are more specific questions about your budget, either myself or the Regional Committee will follow up with you during the review.
Multi-year funding is available for applicants with multi-year organisational strategies in the General Support Fund. Please contact me if you are considering applying for this funding, and I will walk you through what expectations there will be for review, as well as how this new funding arrangement will operate.
Please write to saarc_fund@wikimedia.org, nwe_fund@wikimedia.org, or thasan@wikimedia.org if you have any questions or needs I can address. You can also write to communityresources@wikimedia.org with suggestions and ideas.
Regards,
[2]. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Programs/Wikimedia_Community_Fund/Applications_and_Guides
[3]. https://wmf.fluxx.io/portal
[4]. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Regions/SAARC
[5]. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Regions/Northern_and_Western_Europe
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