Grants:Project/Rapid/Chairpersons meeting in November 2019/Report

Report accepted

This report for a Rapid Grant approved in FY 2019-20 has been reviewed and accepted by the Wikimedia Foundation.

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Goals

A training for chairpersons or presidents of Wikimedia Affiliates that will help them to perform better. The overall theme of the meeting is: "How to lead a Wikimedia chapter from a chairpersons perspective" and is designed to improve personal performance. The sessions will include notions such as key responsibilities of Boards, leadership, oversight and accountability, network governance. We have contracted an experienced trainer who will moderate the sessions.

Outcome

Please report on your original project targets.

Target outcome	Achieved outcome	Explanation
Participants will find this meeting as effective	77% of the participants rated this retreat as very or extremely professional
Sessions will be lead professionally by a facilitator	82% of the participants rated the facilitator as very or extremely professional
At least 15 participations	17 participations

Learning

We conducted a survey after the retreat, the results and the outcomes can be found here

Finances

Grant funds spent

Please describe how much grant money you spent for approved expenses, and tell us what you spent it on.

expense	cost
Room + screen	850 €
Coffee & Lunch	525€
Dinner	496€
Per Diem	116€
Total	1986€

Remaining funds

Do you have any remaining grant funds? No

Anything else

The conference fee was rather high because of the fact that we had to charge the affiliates for the costs of the professional trainer, something that we would rather want to avoid for future meetings.