Grants:Regions/South Asia/zh
该区域包括以下国家/地区: 阿富汗; 孟加拉國; 不丹; 印度; 馬爾代夫; 尼泊爾; 巴基斯坦; 斯里蘭卡.
项目高级职员
Regional calendar
Please reach out to your Program Officer if you are interested in applying before making any application or if you need flexibility on dates.
8月9日 – 2024年9月9日
申請人支援和資格審查
2024年9月9日
續展申請的截止日期
2024年9月9日
申請提案提交截止日期
9月9日 – 2024年10月31日
審閱及翻譯
10月31日 – 2024年11月15日
審查回饋和申請人參與
2024年11月29日
公佈決定
2024年12月13日 – 2025年1月17日
協議和首筆資助
7月1日 – 2025年7月31日
中期對話
2026年1月30日 / 2026年3月31日
最終或第一年報告提交日期
2月14日 – 2025年3月13日
申請人支援和資格審查
2025年3月14日
續展申請的截止日期
2025年3月13日
申請提案提交截止日期
3月13日 – 2025年4月21日
審閱及翻譯
4月21日 – 2025年5月5日
審查回饋和申請人參與
2025年5月23日
公佈決定
6月6日 – 2025年6月30日
協議和首筆資助
2026年1月15日
中期對話
2026年7月31日 / 2026年8月15日
最終或第一年報告提交日期
Contact us
Rapid Fund
If you want to apply or if have any questions about the Rapid Fund, please reach out to the Regional Program Officer at: sa_rapidwikimedia.org
General Support Fund
If you have any questions about the General Support Fund, please reach out to the Regional Program Officer at: sa_fundwikimedia.org
区域委员会
- आर्या जोशी, 2021年8月 - Contributor to Marathi Wikimedia projects and works with many not for profit organizations in Maharashtra. A passionate researcher and enthusiastic learner always.
- Balajijagadesh, 2021年8月 - Open source enthusiast, active in community engagement activities in Tamil Wiki projects. Contributes to Wikisource and Wikidata.
- Medhavigandhi, 2021年8月 - Lead Co-organizer at Art+Feminism, active in GLAM space, open GLAM work; leads The Heritage Lab project.
- Nawaraj Ghimire, 2021年8月 - Wikimedian contributing to the Wikipedia in Classroom project and outreach activities in Nepal.
- Tarunno, 2021年10月 - Wikimedian active in Bangla Wikimedia projects. Open source enthusiast.
- Nabin K. Sapkota, 2024年8月 - Event and outreach co-ordiantor in projects under Wikimedians of Nepal
- Ravidreams, 2024年8月 - Serving Tamil Wikimedia projects since 2005. Have worked with the Wikimedia India Chapter and the WMF in the past towards the development of South Asian Wikimedia communities through various programs like Project Tiger.
Conversation hours
Questions from Office hour 27 July 2021
- User:Manavpreet Kaur
- For Organizations asking for Staff support, will their salaries/remuneration be considered as income?
Criteria of eligibility, are non-affiliate groups eligible? As discussed, their eligibility consideration is dependent on what the committee feels about them. How aware is the committee of all such groups’?
- Considering some mentorship programs are being discussed within affiliates, there might be a chapter supporting a user group to organize, plan and run some activities. So who would apply for this grant? The trainer or the trainee?
- In continuation of the last question, say both apply for grant for specific activities, but one regional committee approves but other refuses. How will the CRS team evaluate such cases?
- About Alliance funding, will it only be available to nonprofits or for profit organizations as well?
Regarding specific funds allocation for a region, if we are actually going to promote this funding for underrepresented communities, considering there are other major grantees in the region, cushion might not be sufficient.
- So what if there is an Allied organization asking for funds for the first time and come up with a great plan for engagement in India and ask for an equal or more amount than the existing grantees, would you consider funding the new organization?
- Are there any plans on training the regional committees? Or How will you ensure that everybody who's on the regional committee, irrespective of the region, is trained on similar standards?
- All communities stand at different levels regarding the sensitivity towards various aspects of engagement, grants, etc. Are there any plans for sensitization activities?
- Drafting Grants’ policies- Will the process be inclusive to the community for review?
- If an affiliate is being supported by other grantees in the region, will this association act as a barrier for the grant the affiliate wishes to apply directly for expansion of the group's activities?
- About Grant structure, would there be a Global criteria or would there be a regional criteria for evaluation & funding?
- When we're talking about increasing the funding opportunities for the under-represented communities, Do you have any kind of plans on capacity building? *Like designing a pilot for new Affiliates, identifying some, extending training on handling finances and later they apply for a grant. This will enable them to efficiently apply for & manage future grants. This will be an actual capacity building and increasing the funding to the underrepresented communities. Otherwise like, or is it just an opportunity without any capacity building support.
- User:Bodhisattwa
- How will Rapid Funds support long term but short budget projects as it is written that it is only meant for short term projects?
- Will individuals or smaller affiliates have to compete with big players w.r.t. General Support Fund,?
- How will you ensure legally to make the grant applicants submit the reports and financial receipts?
- How will you prevent people from disappearing with the money or submit vague/false reports?
- How will the transparency of the grant projects be ensured?
- What is the transaction limit by which an individual will not face FCRA wrath from the Government and how will it be ensured to remove the FCRA barrier for smaller affiliates?
- If an individual/affiliate wants to hire a paid person to execute some project, how will the money be transferred to that person?
- What will be the exact legal way to save tax when money comes to someone’s account for a project?
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维基媒体社区基金
General Support Fund