Wikimedia Conference 2018/Documentation/Movement Strategy track/Annexes/Resource Allocation

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Working Group Input Document: Resource Allocation

Extracted May 1st from Etherpads

This group did not update report on Round 2/3 of Working Groups

What have we learned from our previous funding structures? What has worked, and what hasn’t?
- What aren’t we good at now? What do we need to achieve our goals?
- What do we need to learn from other movements?
What are we trying to achieve with funds? What do we want to change?
Who decides? What kind of movement participation is necessary? And how do we ensure that they are representative?
What do we need beyond money? E.g. capacity building, tools, access to knowledge
What are decentralized models of funding to explore?
How do we understand our own biases and privileges? How do we mitigate them?
What is the gap between Wikimedia and non-Wikimedia world? How do we work with partners--movements and organizations?
How do we lower barriers to entry and raise awareness?
How do we move towards equity?
What are we willing to give up -- as individuals, as affiliates, as a movement?

Distributed model of fund dissemination
Control of money closer to where people are
Abolish the FDC/Funds Dissemination Committee
We need more people in the conversation to have legitimacy and to explore the questions

Conversations:

Equity is not existent, systems biased towards people/orgs who have power
What’s needed is more than monetary support:
Org development consultants, capacity building.
Need more trust in people receiving funds
- Needs to be accompanied by accountability
- Reports could be significantly modified
LANGUAGE: don’t have access to apply for proposals
- People don’t know about grant funds availability
- Lack of ability to apply
Decentralization of funding -- models under exploration!
Gender diversity
Money and power & BIAS: known and unknown
Pay & equity: being willing to consider paying for people’s time from marginalized communities. Volunteer movement, but we may need to reconsider this issue.
Example from another funder (Counterpart Intl): set the goals they wanted to achieve. Committee would select a certain # of proposals. Donor had control over the grant implementation -- but we don’t want to do this.
Would love some program teams to read reports and interact
- More knowledge sharing
- Desire to increase money for regions that don’t get money
Reducing barriers to getting money
Fear that $$$ will stop coming in at some point.
Distributed $$ models should be pursued.
User group / chapter border -- resulted in global inequity
- Impressed at how much
Want to think about what is good for the global movement, but hard to not think about one’s own situation.
- from one perspective, there’s a pay gap between NGO sector and Wikimedia world. Need for stability.

Introduction
of the Movement Strategy track,
» flow of activities (and this report)

Summary
» You don't have time to read everything? Check the summary of it!

Day 1
» The Big Picture,
» The Possibilities,
» The Challenges

Day 2
» The Way Forward,
» Preparing to work,
» Thematic Inputs & Conversations

Day 3
» Working groups,
» Wrapping up

Annexes
» Input documents for the working groups,
» Micro-inputs on possibilities