This is great to see. Thank you for helping to ensure continuity of support in a tense time. SJ
On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 3:11 PM Lisa Gruwell <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Chris- > > I am happy to answer your questions about Tides. No, Tides is not picking > the grantees. The docket of grantees and the specific of the grants comes > from us. Tides provides legal and administrative review of the > grants, approves them, and processes the grants(i.e. wires the funding to > the grantees). It is rare that there is ever a problem, but if Tides were > to see one, we actually appreciate the outside review and would be open to > hearing their reasons. There is no change for the reporting and > transparency requirements for APG grants. Tides will also not be making > recommendations for the grants for the Knowledge Equity Fund. They will > play a similar role as I described for the APG grants. Again, I know there > will be more info on the Knowledge Equity Fund in the new year. I ask your > patience for the folks initiating this and trust that they will share more > soon. > > Best, > Lisa > > On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 10:18 AM Chris Keating <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Thanks Lisa. That statement makes a lot of sense, though I do have some >> questions still. >> >>> >>> Our first priority was to ensure that we had enough funding to support >>> community grants. We transferred the full amount for Annual Plan Grants >>> (APG) for FY20-21 over to Tides to ensure that all funding for >>> affiliates for this year was secured, regardless of how fundraising >>> performed. It also gives staff at affiliates and the Foundation more time >>> to work together to make thoughtful grants, instead of an end-of-year rush. >>> All affiliates who will be receiving funding through Tides were informed of >>> the arrangement last summer. All other grantmaking (Community Grants, >>> Rapid Grants, Project Grants) are still being funded through WMF directly, >>> as usual. There is a round of APG grants set to go out via Tides this week. >>> >> >> Are Tides simply administering these funds at the WMF's direction, or >> will Tides start to take over decisions about who gets these grants and >> what amount different entities are eligible for? Has there been any change >> to the reporting and transparency requirements that go with the APG grants? >> What is the intention about how APG grants will work, since the FDC was >> abolished a couple of years ago and there is unlikely to be any >> community-driven replacement for it until at least a year or two's work has >> gone into the implementation of the strategy? >> >> >>> As of now, this is a one-time commitment of approximately $4.5 million. >>> We are still working on the specific initial objectives of the fund and how >>> it will operate. As a pilot initiative, we’ll be learning and adapting as >>> we go. >>> >> >> Funding knowledge equity sounds like a great idea, but I have not >> previously heard of an organisation making an irrecoverable $4.5 million >> transfer without knowing what that money will be used to fund. Is there >> anything more that can be shared apart from "it'll be used to fund >> knowledge equity somehow"? And as above - is this going to be a WMF-led >> process (maybe even involving the community), or will Tides be actually >> making recommendations about who and what is funded? If the latter, how are >> Tides going to adjust to the Wikimedia community's expectations about >> transparency? >> >> 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> >> > > > -- > > Lisa Seitz Gruwell > > Chief Advancement Officer > > Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> > > _______________________________________________ > 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> > -- Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266
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