Thanks Delphine! Yes that makes sense. For the last couple of years it's felt like 80%+ of FDC grants have been basically been renewals of similar amounts to stable, effective organisations. So the process is arguably over-engineered for that, and a simple renewal process will largely reach the same outcomes.
Presumably there will still be some steps WMF can take in the event of serious management/governance problems in a grantee organisation. Chris On Thu, 26 Apr 2018, 10:08 Delphine Ménard, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Chris, > > Thanks for your question. We have been planning to share an update of what > will happen within the FDC process as part of next year's annual plan and > your question came before that announcement. I'm sorry about that. Before > sharing information with everyone, our team wanted to discuss the approach > with FDC-APG grantees--those who would be most affected by changes to > annual plan grants next year. > > The members of the Funds Dissemination Committee, our team (Community > Resources) and the APG grantee organizations are an integral part of > implementing the strategic direction. We want to make sure that everyone > has the time and resources to dedicate to this work. As a result, we are > proposing some changes to the FDC process followed in previous years. > > The Foundation budget for APG grants will remain stable for the coming > fiscal year. This will give each APG recipient the opportunity to resubmit > at their current level of funding. This should lighten the demands on > recipients by enabling them to submit a summary of their existing program > plans and budgets, with no additional proposal required. Since this would > work more like a grant renewal, there will be no FDC deliberations, and no > staff assessment. > > Instead, we'll use the time and resources to work with the grantee > organizations on developing their program plans during the year, by having > FDC members and staff participate in report reviews or strategic > discussions. The FDC has also been talking about reviewing and assessing > their role and the role of unrestricted annual plan grants in disseminating > movement funds. These conversations will happen hand in hand with the > ongoing movement strategy process. > > We will be sharing more information and updates on this mailing list and > on Meta and I look forward to your contribution to this process. In the > meantime, I hope that we can count on you for reviewing this current round > of FDC proposals > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2017-2018_round_2>. > > Best, > > Delphine > > > On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 7:47 PM, Chris Keating <[email protected] > > > wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I read in a Facebook discussion about the Wikimedia Conference that > > the Annual Plan Grants are being paused (or stopped or suspended or > > something) shortly, presumably after the end of the Round 2 > > deliberations that are going on. > > > > Can't see any information about this on the list, or the Grantmaking team > > pages. > > > > Is this right? If so I wondered what the rationale might be? > > > > Thanks! > > > > Chris > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > > wiki/Wikimedia-l > > New messages to: [email protected] > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > > > > > -- > Delphine Ménard > Program Officer > Wikimedia Foundation > User:Delphine_(WMF) <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Delphine_(WMF)> > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
