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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.

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The Team

Partnerships

Jorge Vargas

Director of Community Resources and Partnerships

Felix Nartey

Sub-Saharan Africa Partnerships

Brisa Ceccon

Latin America Partnerships

Praveen Das

South Asia Partnerships

Farida El-Gueretly

Partnerships Consultant, Middle East and North Africa

Sakti Pramudya

South East Asia Partnerships

Community Resources

Veronica Thamaini

Regional Programs and Program Officer for the Middle East and North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa Regions

Chen Almog

Lead Program Officer for Conference and Events Funds

Agnes Bruszik

Lead Program Officer, Northern and Western Europe Region

Mercedes Caso

Senior Program Officer for the Latin America and The Caribbean Region

Jacqueline Chen

Senior Program Officer for East, Southeast Asia, and Pacific and South Asia Regions

Davit Saroyan

Senior Program Officer, Technical

Chris "Jethro" Schilling

Senior Program Officer for Central and Eastern Europe, Central Asia & the United States and Canada Regions

Cornelius Kibelka

Conference and Events Funds Program Officer

How partnerships work

Regional Partnerships Managers are based around the world, with a priority on those regions that have historically been underrepresented in our Movement. Partnerships Managers have relationships with Affiliates and external partners in those regions, and seek to ensure that Affiliates have access to external partners and that partners deepen their understanding of and become advocates for the Wikimedia Movement.

You can contact us at partnershipswikimedia.org or in our Talk Page.

Selected projects

• Wikisource Loves Manuscripts
• Setting our sights on Knowledge Equity with the African Union
• Overview of the Wikimedia Foundation and Google Partnership

Current projects

• Wikimedia Colombia and the National Education Ministry sign a joint Memorandum of Mutual Understanding, promoting open educational resources
• Introducing Africa Knowledge Initiative Implementing partners
• Skills for youth: promoting digital citizenship with the Wikimedia projects in LATAM
• Building Engaging Narratives From Encyclopedic Content

Movement funding

Our funding is divided into three primary areas: General Support Funds, which support the professionalization and ongoing activities of Wikimedia Affiliates, Conference and Events Funds, which support Movement-led gatherings and convenings, and Movement Strategy Implementation Grants, which are dedicated specifically to implementing the recommendations of the Movement Strategy.

Regional Program Officers work closely with the 8 Regional Fund Committees, which are made up of volunteers from the Movement, to review proposals, provide guidance to grant applicants, and make funding decisions. Additional Program Officers support the Conference and Events Funds and the Movement Strategy Implementation Grants.

• Apply for a grant
• Learn about the different funding programs available
• Learn about funded regions
• Explore knowledge sharing resources
• Learn about grant committees

Resources

• Learn about how funds are distributed in our annual funds distribution report, fiscal year 2022–2023
• Learn how we support affiliates raising their funds on 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.