Grants:Committees/Committee Open Call/North America Candidates

Region-specific criteria

At this time, we are aiming to enrich our committee’s work with new members who may bring:

• Experience/expertise in the following thematic areas: Wikimedia technical and development work, small nonprofit organizational development, Wikimedia affiliate structures, Wikidata usage, and learning & evaluation methods.
• Language skills: native French, Spanish, or Chinese
• Diversity to our team in terms of age, gender, race, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, physical conditions or cultural background. In particular, candidates from
  • African-American communities,
  • Hispanic and Spanish-speaking communities,
  • Indigenous, First Nations, and American Indian communities, and
  • Canadian communities.

Instructions

To apply for the North America Regional Committee, please review the open call and then submit your application by providing a statement below with the following information. Applications are currently open.

• What country are you based in?
• Tell us about yourself and why you want to join a Regional Committee. Please consider responding to some of the questions below, but it is not necessary to respond to all of them in your application. Please keep your statement under 500 words.
  • What is your current participation in the Wikimedia movement or the Free Knowledge Ecosystem?
  • How do you think you could contribute towards the committees’ role and ways of working?
  • How do you think the committee could make decision making more participatory?
  • How do you think the committee could improve grant making so it has a greater impact?
  • What skills, background or experience could you bring to the committee? You might address grant making, knowledge equity, or other relevant areas.

Applications may alternatively be sent to the Regional Program Officer, Chris Schilling (cschillingwikimediaorg) for review. You are not required to post your application on Meta-wiki. Please use the subject line Regional Committee application and your name or username for clarity. Please note that after receiving your application over email, we will publish your username/full name on Meta. This is done to ensure a more transparent application process.

Candidates for the North America Committee

Example username of candidate

• What country are you based in?

• My response

• Tell us about yourself and why you want to join a Regional Committee.

• My response

• What is your current participation in the Wikimedia movement or the Free Knowledge Ecosystem?

• My response

• How do you think you could contribute towards the committees’ role and ways of working?

• My response

• How do you think the committee could make decision-making more participatory?

• My response

• How do you think the committee could improve grantmaking, so it has a greater impact?

• My response

• What skills, background or experience could you bring to the committee? You might address grant making, knowledge equity, or other relevant areas.

• My response

Candidates who applied by email

• Jc Mandy