Wikimedia chapters/WMF grants/US-NYC/Kick start
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- Legal name of chapter
- Wikimedia New York City
- Grant contact name
- Richard Knipel
- Grant contact user-name or e-mail
- User:Pharos
- Grant contact title (position)
- President
- Project lead name
- Richard Knipel
- Project lead user-name or e-mail
- User:Pharos
- Full project name
- Wikimedia New York City: Kick start
- Amount requested (in USD)
- $1500
- Provisional target start date
- December 1, 2009
- Provisional completion date
- January 1, 2011
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[edit] Budget breakdown
- $500—Government and banking fees: IRS Form 1023 ($300), banking fees, other government and nonprofit status fees
- $500—Smaller events and projects: Materials and space rentals that may be needed for Wikipedia at the Library sessions or other smaller events, funding for projects initiated by interns (eg digital tapes for video project)
- $500—Online and printed infrastructure: online donation system, membership system, possible domain/hosting fees, printed instructional and promotional materials
[edit] Project scope
Wikimedia NYC would like to expand its capacity for working in the real world and interacting with local institutions, securing our IRS nonprofit status, and maturing as a membership organization.
[edit] Project goal
The goal of this project is to enable a more sustained and professional building of relationships with the institutions of our region, and to enable us to solidify our organizational infrastructure.
[edit] Non-financial requirements
The securing of a Wikimedia.org subdomain would be helpful to us, as well as learning whatever is needed to integrate our online infrastructure with other Wikimedia efforts.
[edit] Fit to strategy
The project will help develop the professionalization and credibility of the organization, and its capacity for further such professionalization in the future.
[edit] Other benefits
This project allows us to take advantage of some of timely opportunities for cooperation with other groups to use funding for smaller events like Wikipedia at the Library.
[edit] Measures of success
We will consider this project a success if we become better able to manage general operational expenses, and are able to develop and pursue strategies needed for our longer-term existence as an organization.
