[Wikimedia-l] WMF Learning & Evaluation

[Jessie Wild]

On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 10:30 AM, Siko Bouterse <sbouterse at wikimedia.org>wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 11:42 PM,
> <sgardner at wikimedia.org<wikimedia-l-request at 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!

--
> Siko Bouterse
> Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
>
>
Likewise, we're starting to put up some initial thinking regarding Learning
& Evaluation for Grantmaking & Evaluation!
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grantmaking_and_Programs/Learning_%26_Evaluation_portal/About

Feel free to jump in on-wiki as it is being developed; definitely work in
progress :)

Jessie


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