[Wikimedia-l] Updates from the WMF Grantmaking department

[Federico Leva (Nemo)]

Anasuya Sengupta, 05/08/2013 01:53:
> [...]
> In addition, we are moving our Brazil catalyst program into a ‘Partnership
> Grant’ model as we did with India last year. I will be sharing more details
> on this in the next few weeks, but essentially, Partnership Grants will be
> with significant allied organisations - particularly in the Global South -
> who support our communities in expanding reach and participation. These
> grant proposals will go through substantial on wiki review by the local
> community (for e.g. the Brazilian PT community), and then a short review by
> the global Wikimedia community. After this, the proposal  will be approved
> (or not) by the Grantmaking team, primarily Asaf Bartov and Anasuya
> Sengupta. This model is likely to be used sparingly, and only when the
> opportunities offered by an allied organisation are significant to the
> growth of a community. We hope that these allies will, after the initial
> grants through this model, be familiar enough with our movement to apply
> directly for annual plan grants through the FDC or project grants through
> the GAC. [...]

As for the FDC/annual plan grants, that would require for them to be 
recognised Wikimedia partner orgs in the new affiliation model, right?

Nemo