Funds Dissemination Committee/Chapter Finances Survey/Israel

Please complete your Chapter Finances Survey by Friday, May 25th, so that it can be considered by the Funds Dissemination Committee Advisory Group and can be used to develop recommendations for the Wikimedia Board of Trustees.

If you have any questions or concerns, please don’t hesitate to reach out to Divya Narayanan from the Bridgespan Group or to Asaf Bartov at the Foundation.

Key Questions

For multiple choice questions, please delete all choices except your Chapter's response. Where a question requires a text answer, please use bullets under the question.

Chapter Expenses

1. Within the following ranges, what were your total expenses (in $US) in your previous financial year?

probably on the higher end of

f. 100,000-500,000

2. What do you expect your total expenses will be (in $US) in this financial year?

e. 50,000-100,000

Chapter Revenues

3. In your previous financial year, did you raise revenue from sources other than from the annual fundraiser or grants from the Foundation? If so, how much (in $US)?

f. 100,000-500,000

4. If you raised revenue from other sources in the previous financial year, please explain who or what types of groups (e.g., government, members, individual donors, etc.) were major providers of funds. If no, please leave this blank.

• The money we raised went entirely to Wikimania. We were able to raise from government offices, other non-profit like the ISOC, two universities, and several large firms providing Internet services (Babylon, answers.com etc.)

5. In this financial year, do you expect to raise revenue from sources other than from the annual fundraiser or grants from the Foundation? If so, how much (in $US)?

d. 10,000-50,000

6. If you plan to raise revenue for this financial year from sources other than the fundraiser or the Foundation, please explain who or what types of groups (e.g., government, members, individual donors, etc.) were major providers of funds. If no, please leave this blank.

• See 4.

7. When does your financial year end?

• Planning is done Jan-Dec, reporting to the tax services are done until the end of June for that period.

Chapter Re-granting Programs

8. In your previous financial year, did your chapter provide grants to other individuals or entities? If so, how much (in $US)?

c. $1000-5000

• Why is that called regranting?

9. If you provided grants in the previous financial year, can you provide additional detail on your grants program? (e.g., who are the grantees, what kind of projects or activities did you fund?)

• Out of the sum allocated for micro-granting, only one submission was recieved. A writing contest about the immigration from Ethiopia. However, we see this budget line as very important for two purposes:

1. Building confident between the chapter and the community
2. a source for reallocation of funds for unplaned projects

10. In this financial year, will you provide grants to other individuals or entities? If so, how much (in US$)?

c. $1000-5000

11. If you plan to provide grants in this financial year, can you provide additional detail on this year’s grants? (e.g., who are the grantees, what kind of projects or activities will you fund?)

• The micro-grant program is aimed to support community members or third parties having an idea they want to implement but lake the money to do so.

Funds Dissemination Needs and Timing

12. Do you anticipate requesting funding through either the Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) or the WMF grants process for your next financial year (e.g., 2013)? If so, how much (in $US)?

e. 50,000-100,000

13. What would be your ideal timeline for requesting and receiving funds from the FDC or WMF grants process? (e.g., "request in November/December, receive in January”)

• request in January, recieve in February/March

14. By what date would you need to receive funds through the FDC or WMF grants process? (i.e., At what date will your ability to carry out planned activities be damaged if you haven’t received funding?)

• This is hard to tell. Should we know the planned time frames we can probably suffer 3-6 months delay (e.g., if you decide funds are recieved in January, we can probably hold until April without hurting plans)

15. Do you have any questions about the funds dissemination process that you need to have resolved in order to plan your chapter’s next financial year? By what date do you need an answer?

Additional Comments or Questions

Please use this section for any comments or questions you have about the funds dissemination process.

We are seeking your input as we develop a set of recommendations for the FDC. We encourage your contribution on the talk pages of the Draft FDC Proposal to the Board.

I am very happy with this process. Unfortunatly, I don't have time to follow it closely, I'm avilable for any questions via email (either general or with regards to WMIL). Tomer A. -- Talk 05:01, 20 May 2012 (UTC)