Movement Charter/Ambassadors Program/Grant
Create your application by typing a name for your page in the format of YourName/Movement Charter Ambassador Program in the input box below. You can use your real name or your username. If you are applying as a WMF Affiliate, please enter your affiliate abbreviation. For example, "Wikimedia Cuteness Association/Movement Charter Ambassador Program" or "John Smith/Movement Charter Ambassador Program".
What is this package?
- This package is a resource for individuals and groups interested in Movement Charter discussions. The Movement Charter Support Team and Yop Rwang Pam from the Community Resources Team encourage you to apply for this grant to get more community members engaged and involved. With this grant, you are able to get the resources and support you might need to help increase your community’s awareness of and engagement in Movement Charter. For more, see the program page.
- In this round, we are supporting regional groups to lead the discussions, a min grant of $500 USD and a maximum of $2,000 is available for each group.
Who can apply for this grant package?
- This package is open to groups within various communities across the movement. Any group that is interested in being the Movement Charter Ambassador for their region is encouraged to apply.
- Applications that are a team effort of more than 2 people are highly encouraged.
- Applicants seeking to engage with underrepresented language communities will be prioritized.
- This package is designed to further enable Movement Strategy recommendation #4 Equity in Decision-making. It is expected that there will be one grant within a target region.
- Decisions will be made to ensure there are no overlaps. Applicants are expected to gather endorsements within their communities and this will be taken into consideration in the decision process as well.
What activities are expected to be carried out?
- Translate: Translate documents that have not yet been translated, to ensure that Movement Charter content is accessible for community engagement.
- Host: Host community conversations about Movement Charter and the ways that it will affect their work.
- Share: Share the learnings from this work with the global community by collecting feedback, recommendations from the members of your language community, and writing a report as a result. Use Meta and the MS Forum for wider impact.
- Note: Research activities WILL NOT be funded for this package.
Expected timeline:
- Call for applications launch: February 26, 2024
- End of the call for applications: March 11, 2024
- Project Implementation phase: March 25, 2024 - April 22, 2024
- Outcomes report: April 21, 2024
Summary
Resources
This grant example also contains a number of useful resources and documents that may help you achieve the desired goals.
- The background on Movement Charter (historical context)
- A guide for how to organize your conversation, online or in-person.
Project Goal
What specific Movement Strategy Initiatives are community members most interested in?
(Please select one of the Initiatives described here, and explain why is this grants package important within your community?)
24. Movement Charter: To ensure that our communities within our underrepresented region are fully engaged in conversations about the governance of the movement.
Project Background
What are the challenges you aim to address with this project?
Those can help you to think about your project proposal.
Some members of our community are not aware of the Movement Charter. This lack of awareness means that many are not fully engaged. This project provides an opportunity for our community members to come together to discuss and learn more about decision-making within the movement and how these decisions affect them and the valuable work that is happening.
When do you intend to begin and complete this project?
(you are welcome to adopt this example of a project timetable below)
| Task | Start date | End date |
| Meta Pages translation into Language A, B, C | March 25, 2024 | April 1, 2024 |
| Engagement with community X | April 1, 2024 | April 5, 2024 |
| Engagement with community Y | April 8, 2024 | April 12, 2024 |
| Engagement with community Z | April 15, 2024 | April 19, 2024 |
| Summary of meetings posted on Meta | April 19, 2024 | April 21, 2024 |
A minimum of two languages within a region are requested to be engaged for each group applying.
We aim to begin this project immediately. The timelines for this project are detailed above, but we will specifically carry out these activities;
- Translations and documentation, where translations do not already exist.
- Community outreach and pre-consultation engagements, to let the community know about the upcoming conversations.
- Community engagement (online meeting to discuss feedback):
- Community engagement (in-person meeting to discuss feedback), where necessary.
- Feedback notes shared on meta and with the MCDC:
- Joining Movement Charter consultations, communications and engagements that are happening in the region. We will work closely with the regional specialists on these regional calls.
A final project financial report is due 30 days after the project has come to completion. The due date for the report is May 25, 2024.
Where will your project activities be happening?
(Below are some examples of how and where your project activities are happening. Please select those that apply to your engagement/ your community)
- Online: we will host online meetings to onboard the community. We will invite Movement Strategy facilitators and members of the MCDC to join these online conversions so people have an opportunity to engage directly and get immediate responses to their questions.
- Hybrid: Some of our community members would like to meet in-person for these conversations, while others will be remote. The aim is to make sure that the first conversations happen with everyone in the discussions. We aim to ensure that everyone is truly included
- In-person (offline): Our community members are available to meet in-person. People engage better this way, however we will keep the meetings informal which means we will not be renting space to hold these conversations but will provide attendees with refreshments.
Are you collaborating with others on this project?
(please provide details of how partners intend to work together to achieve the project goal)
- Coordinator: Responsible for the major activities of the project, including receiving the grants funds, writing the grants report, and coordinating between the other collaborators.
- Translator: A community member will be working to translate Movement Strategy pages to our languages.
- Outreach & Awareness: Another community member will distribute the translated documents to introduce our community to Movement Strategy and Implementation Grants.
Project Activities
What specific activities will be carried out during this project?
(Please describe the specific activities that will be carried out during this project.)
- Translations: the following documents and pages will be translated
- Movement Charter content pages
- Reports pages
- Forms / Survey translations
- Conversation events pages
- Announcements
- Community Engagement:
- Outreach: While we are working on translations, we will make sure to reach out to the communities and inform them about the upcoming engagements.
- MCDC community workshop: We will host an initial 90 minute workshop. This workshop will be about sharing the details of the Movement Charter with our community members. We will share practical examples of why their contribution to the Movement Charter discussions is important.
- MCDC community conversation: We will host another 90 minute conversation session with our community members to discuss a shared plan and approach for how we engage in Movement Charter discussions
What other tools would you require, apart from the list already shared?
(Please note that some tools requested may not be available. You are invited to suggest developing these tools where they are not available)
- A Zoom link for the meetings. We have all the tools we will need for this project
How do you intend to keep communities updated on the progress and outcomes of the project?
(Please add the names or usernames of these individuals responsible for updating the community)
- Meta
- Movement Strategy Forum
- Diff blog platform
- Village pumps
- Telegram group
- Other community channels for people to know
Budget
How you will use the funds you are requesting? List bullet points for each expense. Don’t forget to include a total amount, and update this amount in the Probox at the top of your page too! (Consider using this budget template to breakdown your budget. Note that only the budget line items below will be approved for this program)
- Facilitation (facilitation time including facilitator preparation, meeting facilitation time, and debriefing):
- Documentation (document preparation time, time spent documenting of discussion, post-meeting work):
- Translation (translation costs for briefs and global materials):
- Coordination (coordinator work to manage or support multiple workflows to prepare for meeting):
- Online tools or services (subscription services for online meeting platforms, social media promotion):
- Data (internet or mobile costs for organizers or participants to access or participate in activities:
- Transportation costs (costs of supporting organizers or participants to attend the meeting):
- Meals (costs related to refreshments, lunches, or other meals during in-person activities):
- Other:
TOTAL AMOUNT REQUESTED USD: