Hello all!

Hope this email finds you well. We are sending this message to select community mailing lists and all previous recipients of a Wikimedia Foundation Rapid Grant.

We have an announcement regarding the closure of the Rapid Grants [1] program between May 14 - June 30, 2018. This year we've received a lot of interest in the program and this quarter we've almost doubled the amount of grants offered to the community compared to last year's quarter. You can look at our spending analysis https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Resources/Grants_spending_analysis [2] for reference. Unfortunately, this means we've expended our funds for this fiscal year. The last date we will be receiving an application for a rapid grant before the closure will be *Friday, May 11, 2018*.

We encourage *Wiki Loves Earth* participants to apply for a Rapid Grant by May 11, 2018 to receive support for their project.

The grant program will be open again to receive grant requests starting *July 1, 2018*. At this point we will be implementing the following changes:

1. There will be a minimum of *$500 USD* for grant requests 2. Applications will only be accepted between the *1st - 15th of each month*. This is to help with our current workflow and to allow us to be more responsive to your requests.

If you have any questions, please email us at rapidgrants@wikimedia.org.

Best regards, Woubzena

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Resources/Grants_spending_analysis

Woubzena Jifar Program Officer Rapid Grants Wikimedia Foundation http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home User: WJifar (WMF)