[Wikimedia-l] Funding programs for individuals.

[Siko Bouterse]

I'm really happy to see this page and conversation around analyzing and
comparing various ways of grantmaking to individuals - thanks for starting
this!

Some learnings we have from the first round of IEG are posted here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Feedback/round_1_2013

We're planning to do a survey and some analysis of the Participation
Support Program in September to prepare for a revamp of that grantmaking
program and will share the learnings from that as well.

I'm particularly interested in understanding what kinds of microgrants are
working particularly well, what the most common challenges are with these
programs, and what needs are not yet being met for individuals in existing
programs...I wonder if adding a "questions" section to that page might be
useful, to help define the kinds of analysis as well?

Best wishes,
Siko


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> From: Jean-Frédéric <jeanfrederic.wiki at gmail.com>
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> Hi folks,
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> While watching the current changes to Wikimedia France microgrants program
> implemented, I was curious to know which Wikimedia entities had similar
> funding programs for individuals - how they worked, how we could learn form
> each other.
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> Since apparently there was no Meta page for that(tm) (yet!) I went ahead
> and
> drafted <
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jean-Frédéric/Funding_programs
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> I dug my information out of my email archives and FDC proposal forms, so I
> could totally have missed some programs - please add the ones you know
> about!
>
> Of course, it would be more useful to have more detailed information on
> every program.
> Together with Caroline & Pierre-Selim we threw some ideas on what we
> thought was interesting to know about the programs, but that's still very
> alpha - please add more ideas!
>
> Looking forward to your thoughts about this!
>
> Cheers,
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> Jean-Frédéric
> Wikimédia France
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> From: Richard Nevell <richard.nevell at wikimedia.org.uk>
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> Wikimedia UK offer microgrants and macrogrants. Microgrants are for sums
> between £5 and £250, while macrogrants are for £250 to £2,000.
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> To be eligible, the applicant has to be a member of Wikimedia UK; this can
> either be individual membership, or organisational.
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> You can read more at https://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants
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> Richard
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