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Community Engagement Insights 2016-17 Report
Across audiences Editors Affiliates
Program Leaders Developers
Goal 1 - "Improving new editor engagement"
Goal 2 - "Improving community health"
Goal 3 - "Improving collaboration and communications between the Foundation and communities"
Goal 4 - "Improving collaboration and communications around software development"
Goal 5 - "Improving collaboration with affiliates related to partnerships"
Goal 6 - "Improving software for contributors"
Goal 7 - "Increasing software awareness and use"
Goal 8 - "Growing the Wikimedia technical community"
Goal 9 - "Improving information sharing for program leaders and affiliates"
Goal 10 - "Developing the capacity of affiliates"
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How prepared do you feel your organization is for meeting its needs in: - Communications
1% selected "No opinion" [?]
1 – Not at all (2%) 2 – Slightly (13%) 3 – Moderately (27%) 4 – Mostly (41%) 5 – Completely (17%)
From the affiliate members who participated in this question, 58% feel their affiliate is mostly or completely prepared to meet its needs in communications.
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How prepared do you feel your organization is for meeting its needs in: - Fundraising or grant applications
4% selected "No opinion" [?]
1 – Not at all (10%) 2 – Slightly (19%) 3 – Moderately (35%) 4 – Mostly (23%) 5 – Completely (13%)
From the affiliate members who participated in this question, 33% feel their affiliate is mostly or completely prepared to meet its needs in fundraising or grant applications.
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How prepared do you feel your organization is for meeting its needs in: - Finance management & budgeting
4% selected "No opinion" [?]
1 – Not at all (12%) 2 – Slightly (13%) 3 – Moderately (23%) 4 – Mostly (27%) 5 – Completely (25%)
From the affiliate members who participated in this question, 52% feel their affiliate is mostly or completely prepared to meet its needs in finance management & budgeting.
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How prepared do you feel your organization is for meeting its needs in: - Volunteer engagement
1% selected "No opinion" [?]
1 – Not at all (7%) 2 – Slightly (9%) 3 – Moderately (33%) 4 – Mostly (33%) 5 – Completely (18%)
From the affiliate members who participated in this question, 51% feel their affiliate is mostly or completely prepared to meet its needs in volunteer engagement.
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How prepared do you feel your organization is for meeting its needs in: - Project management
2% selected "No opinion" [?]
1 – Not at all (6%) 2 – Slightly (4%) 3 – Moderately (24%) 4 – Mostly (40%) 5 – Completely (26%)
From the affiliate members who participated in this question, 66% feel their affiliate is mostly or completely prepared to meet its needs in program management.
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Which of the following support or training does your organization's (Board/Leadership) need most? (Choose up to 3)
Participants could select more than one option
5% did not select an option [?]
1 – Conflict of Interest (13%) 2 – Human resources & culture (32%) 3 – Volunteer engagement (59%) 4 – Donor outreach (43%) 5 – Board recruitment (19%) 6 – Governance (27%) 7 – Non-profit Law (8%) 8 – Leadership (25%) 9 – Other (specify) (9%)
NOTE: user groups were shown the word "leadership" while chapter participants were shown the word "board"
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Which of the following programs does your affiliate organize?
Participants could select more than one option
1% did not select an option [?]
1 – Edit-a-thons (84%) 2 – Editing Workshops (88%) 3 – Conferences (77%) 4 – Wikipedia Education Programs (68%) 5 – GLAM Content Donations (57%) 6 – Wiki Loves Monuments (60%) 7 – On-wiki Writing Contests (61%) 8 – Other Photo Events (43%) 9 – Wikipedian-in-Residences (48%) 10 – Hack-a-thons (19%) 11 – Other (specify): (13%) 12 – Wiki Loves Earth (38%) 13 – Research Project (0%) 14 – WikiExpeditions (0%) 15 – WikiTakes (0%) 16 – None (0%)
From the affiliate members who participated in this question, the three most selected programs that affiliates organize are editathons, conferences, and editing workshops.
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Which of the following aspects of your organization do you have significant knowledge of or experience with?
Participants could select more than one option
1% did not select an option [?]
1 – Partnerships and programs (80%) 2 – Finances or fundraising (47%) 3 – Use of Central Notice, also called "the banner" (31%) 4 – I don't have experience with any of these (15%)
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What was the approximate spending for your organization's most recent fiscal year?
5% selected "I dont know" [?]
1 – Less than $25,000 (54%) 2 – $25,000 to $49,999 (5%) 3 – $50,000 to $74,999 (5%) 4 – $75,000 to $99,000 (0%) 5 – $100,000 to $199,999 (12%) 6 – $200,000 or more (24%)
54% of affiliate members who participated in this question reported that their affiliate's spending in the most recent fiscal year was less than $25,000 USD
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Which of the following does your organization use to fund your activities and events?
Participants could select more than one option
5% did not select an option [?]
1 – None (5%) 2 – Membership fees (50%) 3 – Other (specify): (23%) 4 – Grants from the Wikimedia Foundation (77%) 5 – Endowment (7%) 6 – Income tax deductions (16%) 7 – Major gifts/corporate donations (25%) 8 – Grants from public institutions (e.g. government, EU) (20%) 9 – Grants from private institutions (e.g. foundations, corporations) (32%)
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Goal 11 - "Developing the capacity of program leaders"
Goal 12 - "Improving access to research materials by contributors"
Goal 13 - "Improving understanding of movement fundraising and fundraising needs"
Goal 14 - "Increasing awareness of GLAM and Libraries"
Goal 15 - "Increasing knowledge and capacity related to policy issues"
