Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/2023-2025 Art+Feminism WMF Grant Application/Yearly Report (2023)
Report Status: Accepted
Due date: 30 January 2024
Funding program: Wikimedia Community Fund
Report type: Yearly Learning Report (for multi-year fund recipients) , reporting year: 2023
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General information
[edit]This form is for organizations, groups, or individuals receiving multi-year Wikimedia Community Funds to report on their yearly results.
- Name of Organization: Art+Feminism
- Title of Proposal: 2023-2025 Art+Feminism WMF Grant Application
Part 1 Understanding your work
[edit]1. Briefly describe how your proposed activities and strategies were implemented.
- In 2023, we made progress on many of our proposed activities and strategies, both internally and externally.
Externally, we celebrated with a hybrid event in Houston, Texas marking Year 10 of Art+Feminism. We also funded 13 projects with Art+Feminism event organizers from around the world sharing what Art+Feminism looks like in their community by way of videos, zines, and more.
Within the movement, we have routine meetings with Whose Knowledge?, Wiki Editoras Lx, Black Lunch Table and AfroCrowd. We have programming with Wiki Advocates Philippines and our West African Indigenous Languages Coordinator continues to make strides in West Africa and presented at Wikimania about the program in Singapore. Last year we did a collaboration with Wikimedia Argentina and WikiLGBT User Group creating a translation of a guide on writing biographies about non-binary and trans people on Wikipedia, which was collaboratively presented on during Queering Wikipedia. We also had Art+Feminism regional ambassadors at GLAMWiki present about the organization's work.
Internally, we made progress with our board development. We also engaged with consultants and professionals to help further our work, such as working with a social media consultant to help amplify our Year 10 efforts as well as a Communication Consultant to help create a strategy for 2024. We continued our ongoing learning through a series of workshops with PeoplesHub focused on Disability Justice. Our work with translation and interpretation has become standard practice.
Touching on three of the challenges outlined in our initial grant application - burnout and retention, accessibility, and demands of hyper-productivity - and inspired by our workshops with People’s Hub we’ve been talking more about the concept of interdependence and how we can actively do less. Recognizing that if we’re constantly operating at full capacity, it leaves no room for the unexpected or unplanned and plays directly into these three challenges.
2. Were there any strategies or approaches that you felt were effective in achieving your goals?
- Creating committees to help execute the various ways we were celebrating Year 10 was effective. We created a Celebration Fund Committee and a Houston Hybrid Event Committee. Both committees involved staff and regional leaders to help create structure and delegate responsibilities.
As proposed in our application, by creating points of reflection, we are able to assess and realign throughout the year, as an ongoing process. It can be challenging to carve out this space amidst societal and the nonprofit culture of constantly producing, but it’s necessary for sustainability. We held bi-monthly staff reflections that included self-evaluation for staff and discussion around those reflections, we also picked a big picture topic to dive a little deeper into during these moments. Additionally, we held quarterly leadership team meetings for big picture discussions. With the help of facilitation from one of our board members, who has an expertise in horizontal organizational models, helped us explore what we mean when we operate on consensus. This type of work, by nature, is slow. We don’t have all the solutions or answers yet, but do feel that these types of spaces where we can pause from the day-to-day work are critical for our work as an organization moving forward.
3. Would you say that your project had any innovations? Are there things that you did very differently than you have seen them done by others?
- Something that at least seems a little unique within the movement, but not necessarily feminist spaces, is that we always want to pay people for their time and expertise (to be clear we’re not talking about paying for editing), but for example, by giving modest honorariums for the aforementioned committees helping us celebrate Year 10 was effective. Further, we continue to move in the direction of not relying on our multilingual community members for the labor of translation and interpretation, but rather engage with language co-ops and professional translators and interpreters to compensate for this labor.
Further, we continue to advocate for community care in an ongoing global pandemic. Since 2020, at the beginning of every campaign year we update our community care statement and link in our campaign kick-off communications. Since WMF no longer requires a risk assessment for in-person events, this has been a point of confusion for some Art+Feminism organizers that also organize in other ways in the movement.
4. Please describe how different communities participated and/or were informed about your work.
- We use many vehicles to share about our work including tools like MailChimp and Streak, our website, and social media. We also updated the Art+Feminism meta page and worked on translation tags for that this past year.
At the crux of our work at Art+Feminism is that we lead a Do-It-Yourself and Do-It-With-Others campaign and we provide guides and trainings with a feminist pedagogy to help event organizers create events that resonate with their communities recognizing that they know their communities best. Many wiki groups participate in our DIY campaign, according to our dashboard 26.3% of 2023 Art+Feminism events were organized by wikimedia communities and many of them engage with our microfunding to help make those events possible.
5. Documentation of your impact. Please use the two spaces below to share files and links that help tell your story and impact. This can be documentation that shows your results through testimonies, videos, sound files, images (photos and infographics, etc.) social media posts, dashboards, etc.
- Upload Documents and Files
- Here is an additional field to type in URLs.
https://w.wiki/7FZJ https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/06/07/wikipedia-and-lgbtt-biographies-a-new-translated-guide-from-wikimedia-argentina-and-friends/ https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/13WQBAJ902vCRTlznxcDn3qodJvkQqpp6722utu7eZMw/edit#slide=id.g285dc7b2a07_0_0
6. To what extent do you agree with the following statements regarding the work carried out with the support of this Fund? You can choose “not applicable” if your work does not relate to these goals.
| A. Bring in participants from underrepresented groups | Agree |
| B. Create a more inclusive and connected culture in our community | Agree |
| C. Develop content about underrepresented topics/groups | Agree |
| D. Develop content from underrepresented perspectives | Agree |
| E. Encourage the retention of editors | Agree |
| F. Encourage the retention of organizers | Agree |
| G. Increased participants' feelings of belonging and connection to the movement. | Agree |
7. Is there anything else you would like to share about how your efforts helped to bring in participants and/or build out content, particularly for underrepresented groups?
- A few years back we switched our microfunding model to provide funds upfront to help increase accessibility for some event organizers that may not have the means to organize otherwise. This switch created an unforeseen, and ultimately unsustainable practice administratively for the organization. Moving into 2024, we are moving back to a reimbursement model. We recognize that regrettably, this might mean that some organizers are unable to organize, but unfortunately, it was one of those tough decisions we needed to make to ensure that microfunding remains a sustainable practice overall for the organization.
Part 2: Your main learning
[edit]8. In your application, you outlined your learning priorities. What did you learn about these areas during this period?
- The questions we initially posed are:
Global reach: What is the effectiveness and impact of having incorporated a more international team, at board, and lead co-organizer levels? Equity: What is the effectiveness and impact of having made meaningful changes to the ways in which regional ambassadors and network organizers partner with us? Accessibility: What is the effectiveness and impact of having translated our materials into a wider selection of languages?
We feel fortunate to have a multi-year grant to be able to continue to work on these learning questions. What we have learned so far is that these do still seem to be the right questions and we continue to explore ways to measure our work in qualitative ways.
9. Did anything unexpected or surprising happen when implementing your activities?
- We spent a good amount of time in 2022 to clearly define the Co-Lead position, a key role in our leadership team. We felt incredibly excited about the two Co-Leads we onboarded going into 2023. Unfortunately, one of them had to step aways about midway through the year due to personal issues and bandwidth.
Another challenge was with a consultant that wasn’t the right fit. We started 2023 with a communications consultant that we were consistently having to realign with on priorities and ultimately decided to end the relationship because it was proving to be more work than help for the organization to continue with that contract.
10. How do you hope to use this learning? For instance, do you have any new priorities, ideas for activities, or goals for the future?
- From the consultant experience, we have already implemented different practices and ways of asking questions in the interview process to help get a better understanding of fit for the role and organization. We successfully engaged with a communications consultant and are continuing a new scope of work with them in 2024 to build on the strategy plan they created.
11. If you were sitting with a friend to tell them one thing about your work during this fund, what would it be (think of inspiring or fascinating moments, tough challenges, interesting anecdotes, or anything that feels important to you)?
- From Kira Wisniewski, Executive Director - I think if you asked every leadership team member at Art+Feminism this question, they’d have a different response, but a thing I keep talking about and thinking about is the concept of interdependence. The workshops with PeoplesHub were exciting in many ways and through conversations with the leadership team have really emphasized this concept. How can we do less? How can we stay true to our mission and operate below full capacity always to be able to account for the unexpected and the unplanned?
12. Please share resources that would be useful to share with other Wikimedia organizations so that they can learn from, adapt or build upon your work. For instance, guides, training material, presentations, work processes, or any other material the team has created to document and transfer knowledge about your work and can be useful for others. Please share any specific resources that you are creating, adapting/contextualizing in ways that are unique to your context (i.e. training material).
- Upload Documents and Files
- Here is an additional field to type in URLs.
https://artandfeminism.org/about/communitycare/ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Art_%2B_Feminism_-_Wiki_Interlinking_Training.pdf https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1HTrrCjM7kVXMVwBk1hSJ6gpEkSV9wSb5nek_YJGGKNI/edit#slide=id.g1dd15f3c09a_0_11
Part 3: Metrics for Year 1
[edit]13a. Open and additional metrics data
| Open Metrics | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Increased perception of Art+Feminism as representing a more global and diverse movement. | Description: In response to our first learning question, we hope to measure the perspective of stakeholders regarding the changes we have made in our policies, culture, board and organization structure, support tools, and methods and if this enables us to better represent the global movement in a more equitable and inclusive way, what has been key to enable this and what can still be adjusted or improved. We will experiment with facilitated focus groups with event organizers.
Target: Feedback report from focus group discussion measuring perceptions in different dimensions and the learning from this. Our target is to have at least one focus group. |
N/A | TBD | We discussed that it would be most effective to have a third party facilitate a focus group. At the end of 2023, we signed a new scope of work to help us with this metric. | Third party consultant creating a methodology and interviews with stakeholders in 2024. |
| Level of satisfaction expressed by regional ambassadors and network organizers. | Description: We seek to make equity a cross-cutting principle incorporated into strategies to improve the regional ambassador and network organizer programs, as a result of which the members of these cohorts express satisfaction with the programs and wish to continue working with us. We will do this work through our current practice of one-on-one meetings
Target: 80% that express an overall feeling of engagement, and effectiveness in their role and the support received by Art+Feminism |
N/A | 85 | 85% percent of regional leaders (including wiki ambassador and West African Indigenous language coordinator) have signed to return for the 2024 campaign. | All regional leaders completed a self-assessment ahead of 1:1 meetings with either the Program Manager or Executive Director. |
| Document the Art+Feminism model of organizing global campaigns through a network of Regional Ambassadors and organisers to share with peers in the Movement. | Description: Given that we have focused a lot of attention on trying to rethink our organization, working culture, and network strategy, we hope to document these learnings to share with peers in the Movement through a report or learning workshop/clinic.
Target: 1 learning clinic organized. |
N/A | 1 | After conversation with WMF facilitators with this clinic, the concept of our learning clinic evolved to become “Embedding Equity in Collective Action.” The session was presented in both English and Spanish (new for Learning Clinics). | The Let’s Connect team collected some metrics from the session and shared there were 47 participants (not including sharers or facilitators), 27% of whom participated for over 80 minutes. And according to a Menti poll taken at the end of the session, satisfaction was very high. On a scale of 1-5, averaging a 4.8 for both statements “This session was very useful for my work” and “the content included what I was hoping to learn”. |
| Regional Ambassador and Network organizer Programs Development | In 2022, as part of our regional ambassador program development, our program manager instituted the use of annual plans - a written document where each of our regional leaders establishes a personal or regional goal that aligns with the goals of the organization. Our regional leaders were supported in crafting their goals during one on one meetings with the program manager. This was a successful step that we wish to continue to deepen these relationships and work. Because of these successful engagements, we now have regional leaders who are contributing to the organization's communications strategy, developing outreach strategies specific to the region they support, and taking leadership roles in the organization’s event planning. These engagements have also helped us to start preparing for regional leaders for other opportunities within the organization and helped us better accommodate team members with disabilities by allowing us to craft work plans that account for additional support needs.
Creating more individual plans seems to be a good direction for this program to engage regional leaders beyond the standard expectations of the role. These plans so far have proven to be of mutual benefit by fulfilling organizational needs and keeping these team members engaged within the organization. Over the long-term, we expect to see improved retention and better transition processes with the implementation of these plans. Target: Our goal is to have 100% of all regional ambassadors and network organizers to have documented, individual goals. |
N/A | 100 | 100% - Art+Feminism has a team of regional leaders who host Art+Feminism events, provide support to Art+Feminism organizers in their geographic region, and help Art+Feminism staff achieve other organizational goals. Art+Feminism regional leaders include regional ambassadors, network organizers, a wiki ambassador, and an indigenous communities ambassador (which is currently held by our West African Indigenous Language role) . The regional ambassadors and network organizers are supported by Art+Feminism’s program manager. Our executive director works with our Wiki ambassador and indigenous communities ambassador. All of the regional leaders completed a plan for the year. | The program manager created a template for all regional leaders to use for their plans. |
| Community Support Sessions + Community Hours | We find it important to continue to create spaces for peer learning and general support. Arguably the best part of Art+Feminism is the community. In the recent one-on-one check-ins with Regional Ambassadors, a common theme was folx expressing wanting to have more areas and spaces for connection with each other.
For the Community Support Sessions, to encourage participation, we do not record these sessions. We communicate to participants “This is your space to share how you are doing. These sessions are not required, but initiated to create a space for informal conversation and connection. At a session in Q1 2022, there was a wide variety of organizers in terms of location and also in terms of experience. For some it was their first time organizing an event and others have been organizers for years. All participants were curious and generous, creating a robust conversation that we’ve heard extended after the conversation. For Community Hours, these are offered on a variety of topics in the efforts of ongoing and peer learning. In 2022 we’ve offered sessions on adding event data to wikidata, remixing our Call to Action Art Commission on Wikimedia Commons, and will soon be offering a workshop on zine making for our European community. We recognize that our community is incredibly talented and diverse and are very knowledgeable in a variety of topics that other folx in our community might be interested in. We offer a modest honorarium to lead these sessions and also offer a Data/Internet Connectivity Reimbursement for Community Hours attendees who reside in regions, where expenses for private internet/data costs are prohibitively expensive of $5 USD. Our goal is to average at least one session a quarter. |
N/A | 5 | We held four Community Hours in 2023 including Art+Feminism x GLAMS, A+F Funding, Intro to Gif Making and Wiki Interlinking. The Wiki Interlinking Community Hours went over a new resource that was created by Art+Feminism as a direct result from the recommendations from the research from Penn State about our organization on how to increase our impact on gender gap work on Wikipedia. This new slide deck is available on Wikimedia Commons in English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese. | We track internally our calendar of Community Hours. |
| Additional Metrics | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of editors that continue to participate/retained after activities | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Number of organizers that continue to participate/retained after activities | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Number of strategic partnerships that contribute to longer term growth, diversity and sustainability | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Feedback from participants on effective strategies for attracting and retaining contributors | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Diversity of participants brought in by grantees | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Number of people reached through social media publications | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Number of activities developed | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Number of volunteer hours | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
13b. Additional core metrics data.
| Core metrics | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | Based on 2022 campaign numbers, we recognize this does not capture everyone who attended a lecture or workshop or an event that is not a traditional edit-a-thon.
Tool: Programs & Events Dashboard |
1470 | 2000 | We recognize this does not capture everyone who attended a lecture or workshop or an event that is not a traditional edit-a-thon | Based on 2023 campaign numbers via Programs & Events Dashboard. |
| Number of editors | Based on 2022 campaign numbers
Tool: Programs & Events Dashboard |
1470 | 2000 | We recognize this does not capture everyone who attended a lecture or workshop or an event that is not a traditional edit-a-thon | Based on 2023 campaign numbers via Programs & Events Dashboard. |
| Number of organizers | Based on 2022 campaign numbers
Tool: Programs & Events Dashboard |
164 | 144 | We recognize this does not capture everyone who attended a lecture or workshop or an event that is not a traditional edit-a-thon | Based on 2023 campaign numbers via Programs & Events Dashboard. |
| Wikimedia Project | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | references added
Based on 2022 campaign numbers Tool: Programs & Events Dashboard |
20400 | 94000 | 94,000 references added | Based on 2023 campaign numbers via Programs & Events Dashboard |
| Wikidata | Based on 2022 campaign numbers
Tool: Programs & Events Dashboard |
129000 | 120000 | 120,000 revisions | Based on 2023 campaign numbers via Programs & Events Dashboard |
| Wikimedia Commons | Based on 2022 campaign numbers
Tool: Programs & Events Dashboard |
5420 | 4000 | 4,000 uploads | Based on 2023 campaign numbers via Programs & Events Dashboard |
| N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
14. Were there any metrics in your proposal that you could not collect or that you had to change?
- No
15. If you have any difficulties collecting data to measure your results, please describe and add any recommendations on how to address them in the future.
- n/a
16. Use this space to link or upload any additional documents that would be useful to understand your data collection (e.g., dashboards, surveys you have carried out, communications material, training material, etc).
- Upload Documents and Files
- Here is an additional field to type in URLs.
Part 4: Organizational capacities & partnerships
[edit]17. Organizational Capacity
| A. Financial capacity and management | This capacity has grown but it should be further developed |
| B. Conflict management or transformation | This capacity has grown but it should be further developed |
| C. Leadership (i.e growing in potential leaders, leadership that fit organizational needs and values) | This capacity has grown but it should be further developed |
| D. Partnership building | This capacity has grown but it should be further developed |
| E. Strategic planning | This capacity has grown but it should be further developed |
| F. Program design, implementation, and management | This capacity has grown but it should be further developed |
| G. Scoping and testing new approaches, innovation | This capacity has grown but it should be further developed |
| H. Recruiting new contributors (volunteer) | This capacity has grown but it should be further developed |
| I. Support and growth path for different types of contributors (volunteers) | This capacity has grown but it should be further developed |
| J. Governance | This capacity has grown but it should be further developed |
| K. Communications, marketing, and social media | This capacity is low, and we should prioritise developing it |
| L. Staffing - hiring, monitoring, supporting in the areas needed for program implementation and sustainability | This capacity has grown but it should be further developed |
| M. On-wiki technical skills | This capacity has grown but it should be further developed |
| N. Accessing and using data | This capacity is low, and we should prioritise developing it |
| O. Evaluating and learning from our work | This capacity has grown but it should be further developed |
| P. Communicating and sharing what we learn with our peers and other stakeholders | This capacity has grown but it should be further developed |
| N/A | |
| N/A |
17a. Which of the following factors most helped you to build capacities? Please pick a MAXIMUM of the three most relevant factors.
- Formal training provided from outside the Wikimedia Movement, Peer to peer learning with other community members (but that is not continuous or structured)
17b. Which of the following factors hindered your ability to build capacities? Please pick a MAXIMUM of the three most relevant factors.
- Lack of staff time to participate in capacity building/training, Lack of volunteer time to participate in capacity building/training
18. Is there anything else you would like to share about how your organizational capacity has grown, and areas where you require support?
- We are currently on a journey of being more realistic about our organizational capacity. Recognizing that we need to be working below capacity in our day-to-day is a start to cultural shifts to actually working below capacity.
19. Partnerships over the funding period.
| A. We built strategic partnerships with other institutions or groups that will help us grow in the medium term (3 year time frame) | Agree |
| B. The partnerships we built with other institutions or groups helped to bring in more contributors from underrepresented groups | Agree |
| C. The partnerships we built with other institutions or groups helped to build out more content on underrepresented topics/groups | Agree |
19a. Which of the following factors most helped you to build partnerships? Please pick a MAXIMUM of the three most relevant factors.
- Permanent staff outreach, Volunteers from our communities
19b. Which of the following factors hindered your ability to build partnerships? Please pick a MAXIMUM of the three most relevant factors.
- Lack of staff to conduct outreach to new strategic partners, Lack of staff capacity to respond to partners interested in working with us
20. Please share your learning about strategies to build partnerships with other institutions and groups and any other learning about working with partners?
- During our staff retreat in June 2022, we recognized a need to build a partnership framework to help us assess potential partnerships in a more intentional way. This was then drafted by our Co-Lead and we have started to use this in practice, while evolving the framework along the way. This is still a process being fully realized.
Part 5: Sense of belonging and collaboration
[edit]21. What would it mean for your organization to feel a sense of belonging to the Wikimedia or free knowledge movement?
- This is not a term that we have yet defined as an organization. In recent time we participate in a standing optional meeting, with Whose Knowledge?, Black Lunch Table, afroCROWD, and Wiki Editoras. Standing optional meeting, where attendees convene to gather and share information horizontally regarding the Wikimedia Movement and sharing collective work and intersectional feminist interventions with each other. Our goal is not to generate more work (although new collaborations may naturally occur), and to create a space of care and feminist joy. We are committed to anticolonial and decolonial, anti-racist, anti-ableist, queer values and action.
22. How has your (for individual grantees) or your group/organization’s (for organizational grantees) sense of belonging to the Wikimedia or free knowledge movement changed over the fund period?
- Stayed the same
23. If you would like to, please share why it has changed in this way.
- If just looking at our increased conversations with other within the Wikiverse, it would feel “somewhat increased.” However, balanced with things like our Wikimedian of the Year experience, feeling “somewhat decreased” puts us at “stayed the same.” This is not a big deal, but does impact our sense of “belonging”- in 2022, we were surprised and excited to receive a new award during the Wikimedian of the Year ceremony, recognizing our work with partnerships as an affiliate. During the Wikimedian of the Year ceremony in Singapore, there was a point made to recognize that all award recipients from the virtual years would be recognized from the stage and although this award was not given again in 2023, both Art+Feminism and Wikimedia UK were not recognized with the prior recipients.
24. How has your group/organization’s sense of personal investment in the Wikimedia or free knowledge movement changed over the fund period?
- Stayed the same
25. If you would like to, please share why it has changed in this way.
- n/a
26. Are there other movements besides the Wikimedia or free knowledge movement that play a central role in your motivation to contribute to Wikimedia projects? (for example, Black Lives Matter, Feminist movement, Climate Justice, or other activism spaces) If so, please describe it below.
- We definitely look to other feminists organizations and movements in our work.
Supporting Peer Learning and Collaboration
[edit]We are interested in better supporting peer learning and collaboration in the movement.
27. Have you shared these results with Wikimedia affiliates or community members?
- Yes
27a. Please describe how you have already shared them. Would you like to do more sharing, and if so how?
- We did a Let’s Connect session that was well attended and received. That was a very supported engagement, but as with many things with Art+Feminism, it comes down to capacity to having the ability to do more sharing.
28. How often do you currently share what you have learned with other Wikimedia Foundation grantees, and learn from them?
- We do this regularly (at least once a month)
29. How does your organization currently share mutual learning with other grantees?
- We have the aforementioned standing building with a few other feminist organizations within the movement and we also participate in the regular ED meetings with wiki affiliates.
Part 6: Financial reporting and compliance
[edit]30. Please state the total amount spent in your local currency.
- 381340.97
31. Local currency type
- USD
32. Please report the funds received and spending in the currency of your fund.
- Upload Documents, Templates, and Files.
- Report funds received and spent, if template not used.
33. If you have not already done so in your budget report, please provide information on changes in the budget in relation to your original proposal.
- These are all reflected in the budget document.
34. Do you have any unspent funds from the Fund?
34a. Please list the amount and currency you did not use and explain why.
- $344.03 or 0.090134535022335% of the budget
34b. What are you planning to do with the underspent funds?
- A. Propose to use the underspent funds within this Fund period with PO approval
34c. Please provide details of hope to spend these funds.
- As per grant agreement, we do not need approval for this small percentage unspent.
35. Are you in compliance with the terms outlined in the fund agreement?
As required in the fund agreement, please report any deviations from your fund proposal here. Note that, among other things, any changes must be consistent with our WMF mission, must be for charitable purposes as defined in the grant agreement, and must otherwise comply with the grant agreement.
36. Are you in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations as outlined in the grant agreement?
- Yes
37. Are you in compliance with provisions of the United States Internal Revenue Code (“Code”), and with relevant tax laws and regulations restricting the use of the Funds as outlined in the grant agreement? In summary, this is to confirm that the funds were used in alignment with the WMF mission and for charitable/nonprofit/educational purposes.
- Yes
38. If you have additional recommendations or reflections that don’t fit into the above sections, please write them here.
- As expressed in other meetings and other reports, this reporting is an extremely heavy lift for our team. It seems wild that the progress report and final report are the same format. It does not feel like an effective use of the grantee or the grantor time and resources for this amount of detail for this report. For point of reference, a final report we completed for a 100,000 grant for the Ford Foundation was four questions.