Grants:Committees

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An important aspect of the Wikimedia Foundation’s funding programs is the role that volunteer committees have in providing both guidance and support to applicants as well as making decisions about how movement funds should be distributed. Based on the movement strategy recommendations, we maintain committees that enable communities in each region and thematic experts to have a central role in setting priorities and allocating funds for specific types of initiatives. Each of these processes benefits greatly from existing expertise, new ideas, and awareness of required skills and circumstances for local communities.

Regional Committees[edit]

One of the key areas of the new strategy is the importance of enabling local communities to take more responsibility and ownership for setting priorities in their regions, allocating funds for specific types of initiatives, and ensuring the involvement of allied partner organisations. Each of these processes benefits greatly from existing expertise, new ideas, and awareness of required skills for local communities.

We have seven regional committees leading our participatory processes. For more information about each regional committee, please review the corresponding regional page:

• Central & Eastern Europe & Central Asia
• Northern & Western Europe
• North America
• Latin America & Caribbean
• East, Southeast Asia, & Pacific
• South Asia
• Sub-Saharan Africa
• Middle East & North Africa

Stipend and benefits[edit]

• Stipend: The regional committee members may receive a stipend of $100 every 2 months to offset costs of participation. Stipends can be used to pay for childcare, internet, transportation and other costs that make volunteering possible
• Skill development opportunities: The regional committee members will have access to skill building opportunities, including training on topics such as conflict transformation and nonviolent communication. Through their work on the tasks, members will also learn by doing.

Other Committees[edit]

The Community Resources team also plans to develop committees for both the Wikimedia Research and Technology Fund. The two program committees will function collaboratively with the regional committees when assessing applications based in their regions.

Policies and guidelines[edit]

• Conflict of Interest (COI) guidelines for Regional Fund Committees (Google Docs version)

See also[edit]

• Inactive and past committee members
• How are General Support Fund proposals reviewed for Wikimedia Community Fund?