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Community Growth

The Community Growth team supports the volunteers and affiliates of the Wikimedia movement to achieve the movement's strategic goals, with a particular focus on advancing Knowledge Equity.

Our work is organized into four main areas: funding, collaborative grantmaking and partnership development (Community Resources and Partnerships), campaigns and programmatic work (Community Programs), and capacity development and peer learning (Community Development).

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The team

Yael Weissburg

Vice President of Community Growth

Jorge Vargas

Director of Community Resources and Partnerships

Simona Ramkisson

Director of Community Development

Fiona Romeo

Director of Community Programs

Ben Vershbow

Principal Strategist, Community Growth

How we work

We organize our work around regional and thematic priorities. We also collect data and produce metrics and learnings that help Foundation teams plan and support our volunteers and Affiliates in coordinated ways.

Regional Grants Program Officers and Regional Partnerships Managers are based around the world, with a priority on those regions that have historically been underrepresented in our Movement. We work closely with the 8 Regional Fund Committees to review proposals, provide guidance to grant applicants, and make funding decisions. We seek to ensure that Affiliates have access to external partners and that partners deepen their understanding of and become advocates for the Wikimedia Movement.

Community Programs provides practical assistance, capacity building, facilitation, and co-creation to volunteers, Affiliates and other groups working on movement-prioritized themes like Culture and Heritage, Education, and closing the Gender Gap.

Community Development designs tools, experiences and programs that enhance the resilience and capacity of volunteers and support community governance and leadership.

Check the pages of these teams for more information and ways to contact us. You can also share any questions or feedback on our Talk page.

Sub-teams

Community Resources and Partnerships

The Community Resources subteam supports the Affiliates and contributors of the Wikimedia Movement by offering institutional and individual funding to help achieve the Movement’s goals.

The Partnerships subteam supports the Wikimedia Foundation and the Affiliates of the Wikimedia Movement to develop and maintain strategic relationships with external partners.

Community Programs

We support major global organizing and outreach themes of the Wikimedia movement, including Culture & Heritage, Education, and Gender.

Community Development

We support resilient and growing communities by helping volunteers build the capacities and skills needed to grow their contributions and communities.

Data, Evaluation & Learning

We support the strategic work of Community Growth with impactful, accessible, and ethical data and insights.

Selected projects

• Revenue Generation Across Wikimedia

The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc is a nonprofit charitable organization dedicated to encouraging the growth, development and distribution of free, multilingual content, and to providing the full content of these wiki-based projects to the public free of charge.