Hello Woubzena and welcome !
Thank you for the response. It is clear.
(Of course, there might be a whole bunch of technicalities, such as
individuals belonging to several groups or groups asking per individual
rather than per group; but yeah... I get the spirit of it)
All the best
Florence
Le 04/12/2017 à 19:06, Woubzena Jifar a écrit :
Hello Florence,
Thank you for the warm welcome and apologies for the delay in
response. We also appreciate your questions on clarification. I have
updated the three grant cap policy below:
*2. Three grant cap for individuals, groups, and organizations*
*
*
Beginning December 1, 2017 any individual, group, or organization will
only be allowed to have three open grants at any one time [1]. */We
are defining open grants from the time a grant is approved until a
grant report is submitted and accepted/*. We will also prioritize
reviewing and accepting your grant report if you're looking to submit
a new grant proposal. This includes both Rapid Grants and Project
Grants. For example, you can have 2 Rapid Grants and 1 Project Grant,
3 Rapid Grants, etc. This is to ensure that grantees and project
managers have enough capacity to reach their goals and meet the
requirements of the grant agreement. Conference Grants are not
included in this cap. Annual Plan Grantees are not eligible for Rapid
or Project Grants.
Please let me know if you have any more questions.
Best regards,
Woubzena
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/Learn
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/Learn>
Woubzena Jifar
Program Officer
Rapid Grants
Wikimedia Foundation <http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home>
User: WJifar (WMF)
On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 3:22 PM, Florence Devouard
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hello Alex
Great news to hear about the arrival of Woubzena !!! Welcome !
Alex, I have a clarification question. What does exactly define
"open" in "will only be allowed to have three open grants at any
one time"
Does "open" include "pending grant requests currently under
review" for example ? Or does "open" only include "accepted grant
requests until final report is submitted"
Actually, what is unclear in my mind is what is exactly the
"starting date" and the "ending date" of the "open window"
As such, starting date could for example mean
1) the date when we submit a grant request
2) the date where the grant request is officially accepted
3) the date where the funds are actually sent
4) the date where the project actually officially start (as
declared on the grant request)
The end date could for example mean
1) the date the project officially close as declared on the grant
request (I think that would be a bad choice :))
2) the date the final report is officially submitted
3) the date the WMF officially declared the grant closed (after
review of the documentation)
Which case is selected... might imply a BIG difference in
particular for project grant.
For example, if I take the example of Wiki Loves Africa... The
submission request was made in February 2017 (roughly...). The
approval was in July 2017. The money was received in September
2017. The final report is likely to be submitted in March 2018.
And I guess it may take a couple of additional months at least to
get it reviewed by the grant team, so perhaps June 2018. If "open"
is July-June... fine. If "open" is February-June... tough. That
would mean that any "Wiki Loves" contest which runs annually will
actually count 2 projects running at any given time.
Can you clarify ?
Thanks
Flo
Le 16/11/2017 à 00:02, Alex Wang a écrit :
Hello!
We are sending this message to select community mailing lists and
all previous recipients of a Wikimedia Foundation Rapid Grant. We
have three announcements regarding the Rapid Grants Program:
*1. New Rapid Grants Program Officer! *
*
*
We are very happy to announce we have hired a Program Officer for
Rapid Grants -- Woubzena Jifar! She started at WMF on November
13th. Over the last year we have struggled to keep up with the
growing demand for Rapid Grants and are excited to be able to add
capacity to our team to better (and more rapidly) support the
Wikimedia communities. Please see her staff bio here:
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:WJifar_(WMF)
<https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:WJifar_%28WMF%29>. You
can contact her at [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]> or [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>.
*
*
*2. Three grant cap for individuals, groups, and organizations*
*
*
Beginning December 1, 2017 any individual, group, or organization
will only be allowed to have three open grants at any one time
[1]. This includes both Rapid Grants and Project Grants. For
example, you can have 2 Rapid Grants and 1 Project Grant, 3 Rapid
Grants, etc. This is to ensure that grantees and project managers
have enough capacity to reach their goals and meet the
requirements of the grant agreement. Conference Grants are not
included in this cap. Annual Plan Grantees are not eligible for
Rapid or Project Grants.
*3. Rapid Grants will be closed December 18, 2017 - January 14, 2018*
We will not be accepting new grant proposals December 18-January
14. The last day to submit a new proposal before the end of the
year will be December 15th. This will give us a week before our
offices close for the remainder of 2017 to review and make
decisions. We will begin accepting new proposals again on Monday,
January 15th.
If you have any questions, please email [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>
Cheers,
Alex
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/Learn
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/Learn>
--
Alexandra Wang
Program Officer
Community Resources
Wikimedia Foundation <http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home>
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