Community Resources/Grants Strategy Relaunch 2020-2021/Get involved

• Welcome Our objective
• Process overview Overview of the Grants Relaunch Strategy
• Proposed programs What’s new?
• How will this affect me? If I am a current grantee or
  if I want to apply for Wikimedia Foundation grants
• Get involved! Talk with us and provide feedback here
• FAQ Frequently Asked Questions
• Regional Committees Regional Committees
• Community Resources team The team and its role

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Get involved!

Community input is essential to making sure that our new grants strategy best meets your needs. The Community Resources team has therefore created a process that reviews existing community input around grants, validates those conclusions with representatives from the community with an eye toward this redesign effort, and offers community members opportunities to share feedback on the ultimate proposal.

We invite you to share the proposal page and this engagement page through the communication channels in your Wikimedia project or organization, to support broad feedback from your community.

Options for feedback and engagement

There are multiple ways to discuss your thoughts and opinions on the Grants Relaunch Strategy. We plan to use this feedback to make additional changes or revisions to the proposal, as well as to confirm changes that have received positive feedback.

For community members who would like to share their views, there are four ways to participate:

Feedback form

You are welcome to complete an anonymous form to provide feedback, and your responses will support changes in shaping the final proposal. The form is supported by Google Forms and contains the following questions:

• What is your region?
• Do you feel the new grants strategy is aligned with the strategic direction of the movement?
• Are we missing any other major needs or priorities?
• What concerns do you have about this proposal? Are there any challenges in this structure that would affect your work as a volunteer?
• Is there any other feedback you would like to give us?

Privacy Statement: General statistics about the responses to this form, including some anonymous quotes, will be published on meta.wikimedia.org. Your full responses will only be shared with Wikimedia Foundation staff and contractors, and will be deleted within 90 days. For questions about this form, contact communityresourceswikimedia.org.

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Talk page

Share your questions and feedback on the talk page. The talk page contains the same questions as the feedback form, but you are welcome to provide other, open-ended feedback outside of these questions.

Discuss on the talk page

Office hours

The Community Resources team will be hosting a series of office hours in June and July to explain the implementation of the new strategy. Sessions will be offered in English, Spanish, Portuguese and French.

Date	Time	Region	Language	Link to meeting
11 March 2021	15:00 UTC	Africa	English	Google Meet link
15 March 2021	7:00 UTC	ESEAP	English	Google Meet link
16 March 2021	14:00 UTC	Asia and MENA	English	Google Meet link
18 March 2021	17:00 UTC	EU+CEE	English	Google Meet link
22 March 2021	21:00 UTC	LATAM and North America	Spanish/English	Google Meet link
18 June 2021	22:00 UTC	LATAM and the Caribbean	Spanish
19 June 2021	2:00 UTC	ESEAP	English
22 June 2021	13:00 UTC	Northern and Western Europe	English	Google Meet link
23 June 2021	14:00 UTC	Northern and Western Europe	English	Google Meet link
28 June 2021	15:00 UTC	LATAM and the Caribbean	Spanish	Google Meet link
28 June 2021	15:00 UTC	Northern and Western Europe	English	Google Meet link
30th June 2021	17.30 UTC	Africa and Middle East	English	Google Meet Link
30th June 2021	14:00 UTC	Northern and Western Europe	English	Google Meet Link
1 July 2021	15:00 UTC	Africa and Middle East	English	Google Meet Link
1 July 2021	17:30 UTC	Africa and Middle East	French	Google Meet link
2 July 2021	20:00 UTC	LATAM and the Caribbean	Portuguese	Google Meet link
17 July 2021	8:00 UTC	ESEAP Hub Meeting	English
23 July 2021	8:00 UTC	Asia Friendly Time	English	Google Meet link
23 July 2021	18:00 UTC	Africa, Americas, Europe Friendly time	English	Google Meet link
27 July 2021	14:00 UTC	SAARC region	English with Indic languages support	Google meet link
8 August 2021	1:30 UTC	India-focused, but everyone is welcome. Please see the Event page.	English with translation support available for South-East Asian languages such as Bangla, Hindi, Kannada, Marathi, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu.	Zoom link

We will continue to plan Regional Office Hours to discuss in more detail the new application, the budget template, reporting requirements, and the learning and evaluation strategy, between July and September of 2021. A schedule for these office hours will be posted here.

E-mail

You are welcome to contact the Community Resources team privately at (communityresourceswikimedia.org) with your feedback. Please use [Grants Relaunch] in the subject line of your e-mail to support our review. Open feedback is welcome, and we also invite you to use any of the questions on the talk page to help frame your feedback.

E-mail our team