[Foundation-l] [Announcement] New Head of Business Development: Kul Wadhwa

[effe iets anders]

2008/1/5, SJ Klein <meta.sj at gmail.com>:
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> On Fri, 4 Jan 2008, Sue Gardner wrote:
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> > I certainly aspire, later, to be able to expand into hiring people whose
> > work will be more directly mission-focused - for example, people to
> > create distribution partnerships with other non-profits, or people to
> > support community members who want to write grant proposals. But the
> > priority obviously needs to be the core stuff.
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>
> Working with other non-profits for distribution, and organized writing of
> grant proposals, both strike me as things that the community at large
> excels at.  We have hundreds of talented contributors who happen to be
> staff or organizers of their own non-profits, skilled at this work; just
> as we have many talented people skilled at dealing with media.
>
> The most interest and success we have ever had in grant writing was
> when a group of active contributors started scoping out the landscape of
> relevant grants and drafting proposals on their own.  (this stopped when
> the process was shut down; a closed grantswiki was created and the whole
> process eventually ended.)
>
> Since then, a number of communities of Wikipedians have successfully
> gotten their own small grants; we must have many more people with
> experience in the process and pieces of proposals that could be reused.
>
Sj, could you maybe describe (if you wish, privately) which small
grants these are and by whom requested at which organization, with
which subjects and conditions? (Just very interested) Thanks!

> Similarly with distribution partnerships: a number of successful examples
> have been planned and carried out by groups of Wikipedians, who could
> advise others on how to do the same.
>
> SJ
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