[Wikimedia-l] Welcome: Siko Bouterse and Katy Love join the Grantmaking team at WMF

[Patricia Pena]

Great news! Congrats Siko and Katy!

On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 11:16 PM, Fabrice Florin <fflorin at wikimedia.org>wrote:

>
> On Jan 15, 2013, at 9:52 PM, wikimedia-l-request at lists.wikimedia.orgwrote:
>
> Congrats, Siko and Katy!
>
> So glad to hear you'll be spearheading these important initiatives.
>
> Siko, I'm thrilled that we'll keep working together in your new role.
>
> Katy, welcome aboard! Look forward to meeting with you next week ...
>
> Onward!
>
>
> Fabrice
>
> >
> > Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 19:51:31 -0800
> > From: Anasuya Sengupta <asengupta at wikimedia.org>
> > To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
> > Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Welcome: Siko Bouterse and Katy Love join the
> >       Grantmaking team at WMF
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> > Dear all,
> >
> > As you know, we recently re-named the Global Development department at
> the
> > Wikimedia Foundation, as the Grantmaking and Programs department. The
> > Grantmaking team is committed to supporting our community and meeting our
> > shared goals at the different levels of contribution - whether
> individuals,
> > groups or organisations -  and we will be working with you over the next
> > few months to deepen our strategies for doing so, and for evaluating our
> > impact.
> >
> > In the meantime, however, I am delighted to announce some changes to the
> > Grantmaking team that reflect this commitment. Siko Bouterse [1] needs no
> > introduction to most of you, having worked at WMF since 2011, most
> recently
> > coordinating the Fellowships program. Siko is coming on to the
> Grantmaking
> > team as Head of Individual Engagement Grants, a program that will support
> > individual or small team projects for online impact. This is to be
> launched
> > later today... watch out for Siko's announcement and details of the
> > program, coming soon to a wiki near you. Siko will also shortly be taking
> > on the responsibility for the Participation Support Program (which WMF
> and
> > WMDE fund together), and supporting the documentation and analysis of our
> > project-based grants. We are really pleased to have Siko's experience and
> > insights on our team.
> >
> > Katy Love is new to the team, the organisation and the movement, but I
> have
> > no doubt that her experience and insights, as well, will help us be more
> > effective. Katy has just joined us as the Senior Program Officer for the
> > Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) [2] with a passion for strategic and
> > impactful grantmaking, participatory collaborative work, and transparent
> > decision-making. Her background spans philanthropic activities and NGO
> > programs, systems, and operations. She spent the last four years at CARE
> > International with the Emergency Capacity Building Project, a
> collaboration
> > between six of the largest NGOs, aimed at improving humanitarian
> response.
> >
> > Please join me in welcoming them to our team!
> >
> > Warmly,
> > Anasuya
> >
> > [1] http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:Sbouterse
> > [2] http://hire.jobvite.com/Jobvite/Job.aspx?j=owwHWfwp&c=qSa9VfwQ
> >
> > --
> > ***Anasuya Sengupta
> > Senior Director of Grantmaking
> > Wikimedia Foundation*
> > *
> > *
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