維基媒體基金會理事會選舉/2024年/候選人/Erik Hanberg
Erik Hanberg (Erikemery)
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| 整個申請的總字數（必須回答的+可選擇回答的問題）為 1000（一千）字 | ||
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| 您為何競選維基媒體基金會理事會成員？您會為維基媒體基金會理事會貢獻什麼？您想進一步了解什麼？ | 我競選維基媒體基金會裡事會成員，是出於為我深信不疑的組織提供服務和支持的願望。作為一名非營利專家和對技術和開放專案非常感興趣的科幻小說作家，我將帶來我的經驗。二十多年來，我幾乎每天都使用維基媒體專案。我同時是維基媒體的定期捐贈者，我相信我的捐贈能夠支持我所使用的重要服務。
最重要的是，我是《給理事會的小書》和其他三本針對非營利組織領導者的書籍的作者，這些書籍在過去 15 年裡總共售出了 60,000 多冊。憑藉在非營利組織理事會的長期經驗和非營利組織員工領導角色，我相信我可以為維基媒體理事會、其文化和系統做出很多貢獻。此外，我曾在無黨派政府委員會擔任當地民選主任超過 12 年，我同時帶來了這些委員會的經驗。 目前，我擔任當地全國公共廣播電台附屬廣播電台的受眾發展總監，主要負責宣傳非營利和無黨派新聞。我同時以類似的方式看待我的非小說類書籍，我在其中傳播知識並與其他非營利組織領導人分享我的經驗。 最後，我的科幻小說特別關注科技、資訊及其如何塑造社會。我的系列「格子三部曲」著眼於一個擁有完美訊息的世界及其意義。無論是個人範疇還是專業範疇，我對各個層面的這些問題都感興趣，而維基媒體處於未來解決這些問題的最前沿。 我帶來了對非營利組織董事會的理解，渴望建立比創建者更長久的系統和文化，以及對維基百科和維基媒體基金會的使命和專案的熱愛。 | |
| 請描述您的維基媒體經驗（例如：對維基媒體專案的貢獻、維基媒體組織或維基媒體自治體的成員資格、作為維基媒體運動組織者的活動或參與維基媒體運動盟友組織）。 | 如上所述，我幾乎每天都使用維基百科和各種其他維基媒體專案。我每年都會發表文章，並且對我關心和了解的主題進行編輯，尤其是圍繞我的家鄉塔科馬。 | |
| 從您的角度來看，維基媒體基金會在未來 5-10 年應該優先考慮什麼，為什麼您認為這些是最重要的優先事項？ | 我對像維基媒體這樣值得信賴的來源能夠繼續探索和建立發佈準確和及時的新聞內容以解決新聞荒漠和錯誤訊息的方法感興趣。我同時看到人工智慧感染整個網路的威脅越來越大，確保維基百科和相關網站能夠抵抗人工智慧是當務之急。 | |
| Optional questions - Professional Experience, Skills and Education | ||
| Please describe your experience with governing bodies of organizations (nonprofit or for-profit), mentioning the scope of your responsibilities, as well as the complexity of the organization (in terms of scale of operations, budget, number of people involved, or other meaningful measures) and the size of the board or body. | Here are some highlights of board work:
- Elected Commissioner, Metro Parks Tacoma, 2010 to 2022. $50+ million annual budget, with hundreds of staff and dozens of parks and programs to manage. A board of five elected officials. I served as Board President for two years. - Nonprofit board consultant, 2009 - present. Working with nonprofit boards all over the United States, usually for organizations with annual budgets in the hundreds of thousands or low millions and boards ranging from 5 to 15. - Board Member, Grunewald Guild, 2016 to 2022. Including serving as Treasurer, Vice President, and President. A small arts-focused nonprofit retreat center. Board size of 7 to 10. - Board Member & Treasurer, Association of Fundraising Professionals – South Sound Chapter, 2017 – 2019. Board size of 10+. - Alumni Council Member, Carleton College, 2010 to 2014. Board size of 20+, advising the college, which has an annual budget of hundreds of millions. - Board Member, Foundation for Tacoma Students, 2013 to 2014. Board size of 20+. - Board member, Tacoma360, 2010 - 2012. Board president for one year, during which time I lead the effort to combine the nonprofit with the Foundation for Tacoma Students, which included getting approval from three government bodies. - Board Member, First Night, 2003 – 2004. A small local nonprofit. | |
| Please describe your professional career experience. | I have spent more than 20 years working with nonprofits. In addition to serving as the director of two nonprofits, I have served as an Interim Executive Director twice and worked for nonprofits in marketing and fundraising. I have also served on boards and committees for more than a dozen organizations, often in leadership roles, and several times during a capital campaign.
I am the author of four books for nonprofits, focusing on nonprofit management, fundraising, social media, and board governance. In addition, I served for more than 12 years in elected office on the board of Metro Parks Tacoma, a junior municipality with an annual operating budget of $50+ million. Currently, I work for my local NPR affiliate radio station as the Director of Audience Development. As a prolific writer, I have written many science fiction and mystery novels, and even a play or two. | |
| Please briefly describe 3 situations that show how you tackled, or advised others on, a complex problem in an organization. How did you work with others to address the situations? | My work on boards is, by definition, group work. For example, I helped launch a capital campaign while on one board, which involved a lot of complex situations, emotions, and painstaking process. From 2013 to 2018, I led a grassroots campaign in Tacoma to remember science fiction author and Tacoma native Frank Herbert with a park named after him in Tacoma. This was a broad community effort, leading in the successful creation of Dune Peninsula, named after his landmark novel. | |
| Please describe your educational background, including degrees, certificates, and courses of study finished, and their relevance to board work. | Bachelor of Arts in English from Carleton College in Minnesota | |
| Please add any relevant links describing your professional background, experience, profile (such as LinkedIn, staff page, etc.). | https://www.linkedin.com/in/erikhanberg/, https://ErikHanberg.com, https://ForSmallNonprofits.com, | |
| Optional questions - Leadership Experience | ||
| Please describe ways in which you have helped to form a bridge between multiple communities (such as by working on projects outside your home wiki, or working on a collaboration between multiple affiliates). | ||
| Can you describe a policy, on wiki or off, that you helped to create or change? What did you learn from this experience? | ||
| How have you been able to empower people to make their voices heard? | ||
| Sometimes in professional situations, there are personality conflicts. Explain how you remain productive even with personality conflicts. | ||
| Optional questions - Strategic Thinking | ||
| Where do you see the need for greater diversity in the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees or within the movement? What steps would you take to improve diversity on the Board or within the movement? What steps would you recommend the Board take to improve diversity? | I recognize that I come from a position of privilege as a white male who grew up speaking English. It’s my belief that nonprofit boards should aim to reflect the diversity of the population they serve. I would seek greater racial and geographic diversity on the board. | |
| 驗證 | 驗證由選舉委員會或維基媒體基金會工作人員執行。 | |
資格:  已驗證验证者: KTC (talk) 20:06, 3 June 2024 (UTC) |
身份验证: 已驗證 验证者: – NahidSultan (WMF) (talk) 10:52, 29 May 2024 (UTC) | |