Katy Love wrote:
tl;dr:[0] Please join the community review for six annual plan grant proposals requesting USD $1.5 million in movement funds. Add your questions and comments to the proposals until April 30!
Hello Wikimedians,
Round 2 of the Annual Plan Grants program [1] is underway, and the Community Review process is open for your comments and questions. In this round, six proposals were submitted to the Funds Dissemination Committee, by the Centre for Internet and Society, Wikimedia Armenia, Wikimédia France, Wikimedia Italia, Wikimedia Norge, and Wikimedia ZA -- with total requests of USD $1,531,687. [2] These six proposals, developed based on the organizations' annual plans, include programmatic and operational costs, and are requests for general funding.
Hi.
I've looked through some of this briefly and I'm still unclear what an annual plan grant is, exactly.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG and your e-mail directed me to https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Information, but I'm still not totally sure I get it. Are annual plan grants open to anyone or just affiliated groups?
I took a look at this page: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2014-2015_round2.
It seems like annual plan grants are (mostly?) for certain types of Wikimedia chapters? Are the grants considered one-time or recurring? Perhaps more specifically: how are the funds distributed throughout a year? I also thought annual plan grant might mean that the money is specifically intended to fund annual plans of other organizations, but I'm struggling to find a clear definition on Meta-Wiki at the moment.
MZMcBride