It's Lisa Gruwell, MZ. Last I heard, she has been waiting to hear back from a couple of foundations about recent agreements.
Thanks, Sue Sue Gardner Executive Director Wikimedia Foundation 415 839 6885 office 415 816 9967 cell Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate On 23 October 2011 11:05, MZMcBride <z...@mzmcbride.com> wrote: > MZMcBride wrote: >> Sue Gardner wrote: >>> Oh. I can speak to this, at least a little. The Wikimedia Foundation has a >>> policy of publishing our grant applications when the grantmaking institution >>> is okay with it. We don't do a lot of grant applications, and of the ones we >>> do, I am guesstimating that two-thirds of the grantmakers have said it's >>> fine with them for us to publish, and about a third have asked us not to. >>> Some grantmaking institutions are very happy to publish, because they >>> believe the sector as a whole benefits from transparency about how things >>> work. (IIRC Hewlett is an example of that.) >>> >>> I do not know where they get published: I'll ask. >>> >>> But, some of the grant we receive are unsolicited gifts, in which case there >>> is no application, and nothing to publish. I think for example that our >>> recent grant from the Indigo Trust in the UK is an example of that. >>> >>> I assume, MZ, that you're mostly interested in the Stanton grant, and I >>> don't remember their position on this issue. I do know they're not >>> publicity-seeking, and they don't welcome grant applications that they >>> haven't solicited. So they might be an example of a foundation that doesn't >>> want its agreements publicized: I don't remember. >>> >>> We can find out :-) >> >> That would be great. Thanks. :-) >> >> It's mostly the large grants that I'm interested in, the ones that have the >> power to shape a significant portion of Wikimedia's short-term future. >> Personally, the applications (assuming there are any) are completely >> unimportant to me. I can't imagine they're much more than "we'd like X money >> to fulfill Y portions of our mission", though perhaps I'm wrong. But the >> grant agreements ("we'll give you X money over Y months to do Z") are the >> piece that has me curious. >> >> Thanks for getting back to me so quickly. There's no rush on this, but I'd >> most certainly appreciate it if you could take a look or ask someone to. > > Bumping this, so I don't forget. I think having public grant agreements > wherever possible is critically important, particularly with large grants > that have the potential to drastically (or dramatically) shape the future of > Wikimedia, at least short-term. > > Is there a particular staff member that I can talk to about this? There are > some grant-specific people, aren't there? > > MZMcBride > > > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l