Art+Feminism User Group/2023 2025GrantApplication(Draft)

2023 - 2025 Art+Feminism WMF Grant Application Community Review Invitation

Thank you for your input! The period for community review is now closed. If you have any questions or concerns, please email kira@artandfeminism.org.

As you may know, WMF has completely redone their grants program. We are applying for multi-year funding for a Wikimedia Community Grant, covering January 1, 2023 - December 31, 2025. We invite you, as an important stakeholder of the organization, to review and give feedback by August 31, 2022. Please use whichever version you’re most comfortable with (please note, WMF has moved to Fluxx for grants and no longer will be using Wiki-Meta for grant applications; the version on Wiki-Meta is for the purpose of community review).

• Google Doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RYEQOJcv-3FrYZlooszIawF-9e3JaT0WmgRVe_Im9yA/edit#
• Wiki-Meta (you are here!)

It is linked in both versions, but here is a direct link to the proposed budget:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1deZt68qWR1q-LB3qjRVtXvPV3cvSNiTOxj1RHBcjhkk/edit#gid=1121951481

Please note, in the next board meeting, it will be an action item to approve this budget. We encourage the community to use the Google Doc comments function or the talk page on Wiki-Meta to highlight questions, concerns, and also share affirmations. You can also email kira@artandfeminism.org.

We’ve removed the notes/quick tips to streamline this draft. You can see the complete document from WMF here:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nVZBIwigxRP9u5RCM9Ta5GDE6N-ve5qxhvsMJtL44uI/edit

Proposal

What is the overall vision of your organization and how does this proposal contribute to this? If relevant, how does this proposal connect to past work and learning? 4000 characters limit. Required

Mission: Art+Feminism builds a community of activists that is committed to closing information gaps related to gender, feminism, and the arts, beginning with Wikipedia.

Vision: Art+Feminism envisions an internet that reflects diverse global histories of art-making, where communities who have most often been written out of history feel welcome and empowered to participate in writing (and righting) our stories

It’s been a truly exciting year for Art+Feminism: we were acknowledged during the Wikimedian of the Year program for Affiliate Spotlight - Partnerships; we’re expanding our team with a new Administrative Associate and transitioning on two new Co-Lead Organizers; and, finally, recent research at from the University of Pennsylvania concludes that our near decade of work has made a tangible impact on closing information gaps related to gender, feminism, and the arts.

As we celebrate ten years with this next campaign, this proposal enables us to keep moving forward with our mission and vision.

What is the change that you are trying to bring about and why is this important. Required Subquestions that may help answer this. What are the main challenges you are trying to solve? How has the importance of this change been assessed? 4000 character limit. Required

According to the strategic plan we finalized in April 2021, and aligning with the Movement Strategy 2030, our guiding question remains “How do we make Art+Feminism a fully global organization in an equitable and accessible way?”

Although our work has been evolving in this direction, the intentional programmatic break we took in 2021, allowed us to fully realize that although Art+Feminism originated with a focus on gender inequality, all of the other means of identity oppression, especially racism, are interconnected and cannot be tackled as distinct problems. We see equity as a responsibility to ourselves and our community and are specifically beginning with addressing racial and ethnic equity.

Challenges that are rooted in our guiding big question include:

• Burnout and Retention - With an ongoing global pandemic that is disproportionately affecting the communities we’re most invested in, we recognize the precarity of labor and the real off-wiki priorities of our community.
• Accessibility - We recognize this as a growth area for Art+Feminism in order to make the work we do together accessible for everyone.
• Language - In 2022, Art+Feminism celebrated events in 27 different languages. Although strides have been made to provide translation and interpretation in our meetings and materials, there is always room for improvement
• Inequity as the Status Quo - We continue on our journey of (un)learning racism, US exceptionalism, and other manifestations of oppression in order to create equitable and accessible spaces for our community.
• Demands of Hyper-Productivity - By creating points of reflection, we are able to assess and realign. It can be challenging to carve out this space, but it’s necessary for growth.
• Finding Joy - The work of Art+Feminism and the challenges that we face are hard. We need to bring the fun back to Art+Feminism, we have a value that says “We find joy in our community, knowing it will sustain us in our work” and we need to be intentional about that joy.

With this proposal, we hope to continue our action plan from our strategic roadmap to address these challenges consists of: a) recruiting board members from regions other than North America, b) building the infrastructure to sustain and nurture our community in an increasingly equitable and ethical way, c) renewing our mechanisms to create new leadership, d) optimizing our regional ambassador program, e) improving our communications strategies, and f) increasing our administrative capacity.

Describe your main approaches or strategies to achieve these changes and why you think they will be effective. 3000 character limit. Required.

To continue to build on the momentum and trajectory we’ve been going to help us further realize our goals and move toward the change we want to see, we hope to focus on three main areas:

Reflection and Evaluation

We often take an emergent strategy approach to our work. The book “Emergent Strategy” by Black feminist adrienne maree brown emphasizing priciples like “Small is good, small is all. (The large is a reflection of the small)” and that “change is constant.” We’ve been building in internal points of reflection to be able to help us reflect and grow.

In 2022, A+F Program manager set up a program to intentionally create one-on-one meetings to discuss more qualitative goals for each regional leader on our team. This was a successful step that we wish to continue to deepen these relationships and work.

Also in 2022, we reworked our monthly evaluation form for our leadership team as a point of peer review and reflection. Each month, staff self-assess their work using a seven question form and then peer review the form during a staff meeting. This process is still evolving.

Infrastructure

In 2022, we took intentional steps to hire an administrative associate. This process was very intentional and took a lot of time and resources to do with the intention and care that we hoped for. We received over 300 applications for the open position. At time of proposal, we’re hopeful to start on boarding the successful candidate in their new role!

Further, we spent much of 2022 redefining and creating a process for the role of Co-Lead Organizers within the organization.

This all leads to the concept of onboarding and support. In order for these new team members to be successful, we recognize that it will take the intention and resources and believe this will be a key component to our infrastructure in 2023.

Celebration

We’re celebrating 10 years of Art+Feminism! We’re working with our community to help realize a celebration that resonates with them on a global level.

Multi-year funding allows us to plan and anticipate what the next few years will look like, while leaving room in our scheduling to make space for new and emergent projects and processes. It’s hard to both create and measure change in a short calendar year. We’re confident that we can accomplish the change we want to see, if given the time and resources to fully realize them.

What are the activities you will be developing and delivering as part of these approaches or strategies? 5000 character limit. Required.

Reflection and Evaluation

We recognize that one of our biggest growth areas is the ability to define how we measure success qualitatively, ensuring that success resonates with our community. It is important that we are able to articulate our work  to the wider Wikiverse and beyond. We want to meaningfully partner with the Regional Committee and continue conversations with the Wikimedia Foundation and within our community about ways this can be accomplished.

Infrastructure

• Board development and onboarding - By Q1 2023, we will have brought on our first international board member. This is a part of our commitment to have global voices at every level of our organization. Our recruitment process is conversation-based: meeting with multiple members of our community to help assess interests that align with the needs and direction of the organization. This process continues to be defined. In 2023, we will dedicate time and resources towards improving infrastructure and support to be able to not only continue recruitment but also to maintain an effective board with protocols and procedures that include an intentional onboarding process. We imagine this being a multi-year process.
• Policy creation and review - We need to continue on the path of creating and documenting our own policies and protocols. It is also critical that we build in time to review existing policies and protocols to be able to ensure they’re still relevant and helpful for our organization.
• Training - Two years ago we created a dedicated budget line for training. This aligns with our value: “We commit to knowledge sharing and creation on a global scale, highlighting voices and stories which are often unheard. We also embrace our own learning and unlearning of knowledge so that we may dream of new ways of being and doing, individually and collectively.” Specifically in 2023, we have identified a trainer to help improve our culture of accessibility and align our workplace operations with a disability justice framework.
• Translation and interpretation - We continue to be intentional about dedicating the time and resources to translations and interpretation in order to make our work and community more accessible on a global scale.

Celebration

• Through intentional conversations and partnerships with our fellow Wikimedians and GLAM institutions, we hope to create a celebration that resonates with them on a global level, with various levels of engagement.
• We also want to be intentional about other ways to celebrate both big and small accomplishments in our work and within our communities.
• In 2023, we will be celebrating our ten year anniversary with a signature, hybrid (virtual and in-person) event hosted in conjunction with various cultural and civic organizations in Houston, Texas, USA. Additionally, we are working with our regional ambassadors to produce zines, videos, special events, and other media to highlight their region’s work in more culturally-specific ways.

Do you want to apply for multi-year funding?  Required.

• No  
• Yes, for 2 years
• Yes, for 3 years

5.1 If yes, provide a brief overview of Year 2 and Year 3 of the proposed plan and how this relates to the current proposal and your strategic plan? Required 3000 character limit.

Our strategic roadmap is a multi-year document. Much of this work described above cannot be fully realized in one year’s time and we’re grateful for the ability to apply for multi-year funding to be able to help realize these plans with less urgency and more intention.

For example around board development and onboarding, with a very small staff and with new team members starting in Q4 2022, we recognize that much of 2023 will be onboarding those team members with a focus on celebrating 10 years of Art+Feminism in Q1 2023. Whereas conversations can take place among the board overlapping with this time, it won’t be until later in 2023 when we’ll be able to shift focus to board development, recruitment, and onboarding. In an organization deeply values driven, we do not anticipate that the recruitment and alignment process with potential board members to be a quick process and see this overall taking 2-3 years to fully realize.

Further, as the pandemic took a toll on our organizing community we want to engage new organizers through a dedicated communications strategy. As we plan to celebrate 10 years of Art+Feminism, we’re engaging with a Communications Consultant. Having a full-time communications position is part of our longer term plans for the organization and this consultant role is a way to onramp to that future.

Please include a timeline (operational calendar) for your proposal. This is to show how you hope to develop your work over the course of the funding period. It can be in semesters, quarters, or months, depending on what makes more sense for the work you are delivering. Here, you need to identify the various milestones in their project in order to break each task under a unique work plan showcasing the operational calendar. If needed, you can also upload a document. Optional (recommended)

Here is our project calendar for 2023 that gives a high level overview of how we're organizing our work for the year. It is a living document and in our monthly meeting with our lead co-organizers we review the previous month’s activities and update and adjust accordingly. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1QXQXXxXh0V6HGQdfwXir6VAqjANkAxvbHB1MZqEemqk/edit#gid=1763475388

Do you have the team that is needed to implement this proposal? 3000 character limit. Required.

We’re very excited to be onboarding a new Administrative Associate in Q4 2022. We’re also excited to be onboarding two new Co-Lead Organizers. Our staffing structure can be found here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Art%2BFeminism_User_Group/Planning/Staffing2022-2023.

We include in our budget funding for consultants, because we recognize that there are times when we need outside expertise to do our best work. This includes engaging with language co-ops to provide translation and interpretation for our global community and specialized training like Anti-Racist Hiring Training.

Please state if your proposal aims to work to bridge any of the identified CONTENT knowledge gaps (Knowledge Inequity)? Select up to THREE that most apply to your work. Required.

• Content Gender gap  
• Language  
• Important Topics (topics considered to be of impact or important in the specific context)

8.1. In a few sentences, explain how your work is specifically addressing this content gap (or Knowledge inequity) to ensure a greater representation of knowledge. 1000 character limit. Optional (recommended).

Content Gender gap: Our mission and guides focus on writing about women and non-binary artists, activists, and notable figures, not limited to biographies.

Language: The content that our community of editors works on is global in scope and our regional ambassadors support organizers hosting events and editing  in their own languages. We are increasingly being intentional about translating our own materials and making interpretation services available in our programming. Further, all our materials are open-source and we encourage individuals and groups to translate those materials to meet the needs of their communities.

Important Topics: Our mission and guides are not solely focused on gender, but inclusive of  sexual orientation and race or cultural background. Our project is focused on feminism and we don’t view feminism as being exclusive to white cisgendered women. Thus our Indigenous language initiative which focuses on West African languages and our collaborations with other Wiki groups like Black Lunch Table and AfroCROWD.

Please state if your proposal includes any of these areas or THEMATIC focus. Select up to THREE that most apply to your work and explain the rationale for identifying these themes. Please note: Several organizations/projects may work with more topics, but here we want to see the priorities and where you will focus most of your activities, team, and investments. Please refer to this section of the guide for definitions and examples. Required.  

• Advocacy  
• Culture, heritage or GLAM  
• Diversity  

Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities?

• Gender Identity  
• Sexual Orientation  
• Ethnic/racial/religious or cultural background  

What are your strategies for engaging participants, particularly those that currently are non-Wikimedia? If you stated that you were seeking to address a gap in “contributions”, what approaches and specific investments are you making to reach underrepresented groups. Also please describe your strategies to retain participants after your proposal is implemented. 2500 character limit. Required

The Art+Feminism campaign is an international call to individuals, communities, institutions, and grassroots organizations. Art+Feminism's audience is broad and diverse. We have established solid ties with GLAM institutions, universities, academics, artists, feminist and information activists, cultural leaders, and others. We articulate collaboration between these actors and Wikimedian communities in editing and awareness-raising activities around the existing gaps in Wikimedia projects.

Our strategies for retaining new contributors include:

• Emphasis on partnerships with GLAM institutions, which have great potential to integrate the use of Wikimedia projects into their regular programming.
• Providing regular training opportunities and support resources to our international network of supporters. We have identified that some Art+Feminism event organizers (individual Wikimedians, activists, artists, as well as institutions) act as catalysts within their communities and encourage others to continue editing. We allocate a considerable proportion of our resources to support them.
• Continue with the "Network organizers" program, composed of experienced and active A+F event organizers, who continue organizing Art+Feminism-related activities within geographic and non-geographic communities.  They have community building and organizing skills and are interested in feminism and information activism.
• Work in collaboration with other Wikimedia projects and organizations, especially those with an equity focus. We currently collaborate at different levels with the projects Women in Red, Whose Knowledge?, AfroCrowd, Black Lunch Table, among others.
• Improve our communication strategy to have even more impact on social media and press.

There are no restrictions to participate in our campaign, nor is previous experience editing on Wikimedia projects required. The only requirement to participate is to adhere to our Safe and Brave Space Policy and to work to ensure an event free of any form of harassment or discrimination.

In what ways are you actively seeking to contribute towards creating a safer, supportive, more equitable environment for participants and promoting the UCOC and Friendly Space Policy, and/or equivalent local policies and processes? 2000 characters limit Required

One of the things we’re most proud of from 2022 is the release of our Anti-Racism Policy and Equity statement.

From August to December 2021, the Art+Feminism leadership team (Mohammed Sadat Abdulai, Amber Berson, Melissa Tamani, Kira Wisniewski, Nina Yeboah) took an organizational pause on all regularly scheduled programmatic activities to prioritize creating internal anti-oppression policies and mechanisms. This, in a way, became our programming.

The leadership team became deeply engaged in this work by: participating in ongoing meetings, readings and discussions, working through past trauma, examining how white supremacy/Anglo Saxon practices perpetuate in our everyday work culture (such as sense of urgency and centering/overrepresenting U.S. culture), and creating operational definitions of concepts like equity and racism.

We specifically focused on developing an anti-racism policy to be implemented across the organization and inform new work culture practices rooted in restorative justice. We do not want to have just words on a page, but rather move Art+Feminism toward a cultural shift with established policies and protocols that help the organization be more consistent with its values. We also envision regular org-wide trainings in the future to help us all be in alignment with this work.

This is important and hard work that takes time.

As a team, we believe that we are a stronger organization now that we have the anti-racism policy and equity statement in place. We are committed to continuing on this trajectory as these two protocols are the first steps to sustainable change. We hope that you are able to take a moment to review both the new policy and statement below (available currently in English, Spanish, French, and Portuguese) and are as enthusiastic as we are to carry out the mission of Art+Feminism together.

Further, Art+Feminism established our own Brave Friendly Space agreement in 2017. It has since been translated into several languages and we start every session with this agreement. We also have plans to revisit and reevaluate this agreement to make sure it stays relevant to our communities.

Do you have plans to work with Wikimedia communities, groups, or affiliates in your country, or in other countries, to implement this proposal? Required.

• Yes  

13.1. Please tell us about these connections online and offline and how you have let Wikimedia communities know about this proposal. Use this space to describe the processes you carried out to make the community more involved in devising this proposal. If you had any on-wiki community discussions around the proposals you can also mention these or add these links. Required 1000 character limit.

Our work is highly collaborative. In the past year, we’ve established a monthly call with Black Lunch Table, Whose Knowledge?, and AfroCROWD. We continue to actively participate in the regular global ED calls. We’re also excited to be working on a collaboration with Wikimedia Argentina in 2022 Q3. These meetings and collaborations have helped us in a broad sense prepare for this proposal.

Beyond those relationships, our preparation process for this proposal includes: internal writing by Art+Feminism staff, invitation for A+F team to review, invitation for (aforementioned) partners to review, and finally and invitation for our editors and event organizers. The proposal is available on both Meta and via Google Docs for anyone who is interested to offer feedback.

Will you be working with other external, non-Wikimedia partners to implement this proposal? Required  

• Yes

14.1 Please describe these partnerships and what motivates the potential partner to be part of the proposal and how they add value to your work. Indicate sharing of resources from these partners (in-kind support, grants, donations, payments). These partnerships can include different types of contributions such as funding, logistics, advocacy, mobilisation, communication, etc. Required 3000 character limit

The most consistent external, non-Wikimedia partners we have are with the various language co-ops and professional translators and interpreters that we engage with to make our meetings accessible to our global community. They also make sure our website and communications are also available in multiple languages.

On our constant journey and value that centers (un)learning we often seek third party facilitators and experts to conduct and lead training and workshops. Further, we are excited to be part of the current Ford Foundation New Media CoHort which comes with funding and regular meetings with fellow cohort members doing exciting things with technology and art in the United States.

How do you hope to sustain or expand the work carried out in this proposal after the grant? Describe your proposal for scaling the impact and continuing the work if applicable. 1500 character limit. Optional (recommended).

As part of our strategic roadmap, we’ll be onboarding our new position of Administrative Associate in Q4 2022. This coincides with our focus and intention around creating infrastructure within our organization to create sustainability and not focus on traditional growth.

Our strategic roadmap also indicates a need for a dedicated communications position. Whereas, we are not at the growth point to bring on a communication position to staff, we are engaging with a communication consultant beginning in Q4 2022, as we ramp up around our 10-year anniversary. We’re hopeful that this will re-energize our Art+Feminism public engagement.We hope to augment our capacity and scale with engaging with a communications consultant to help re-enegerize Art+Feminism public engagement.

The pandemic allowed us the space to rethink our signature event and the opportunity to assess if it was still as impactful as it was when it began. Since 2020, we have not held a signature event due to COVID-19. During this time, we also did deep and important work around our mission, vision and values and found ourselves asking questions around the purpose of the signature event, which resulted in us putting that on pause as we redistributed resources to our global event organizers. We are excited to be working with one of our current regional ambassadors to host our first in-person signature event in 2023 to help us celebrate our 10-year anniversary in Houston in late Q1 2023/early Q2 2023.

What kind of risks do you anticipate and how would you mitigate these? This can include factors such as external/contextual issues that may affect implementation, as well as internal issues, such as governance/leadership changes. 3000 character limit. Optional (recommended).

There are risks with team expansion not working out. We’re conscious that in the general workforce, there are cases where new hires do not work out due to lack of infrastructure or workplace culture. We’re excited about this necessary growth and were very intentional in our hiring process and doing our best to be intentional with onboarding in order set up new hires for success at Art+Feminism. Over the past years we’ve been creating more dedicated and documented protocols around HR issues such as payroll, health reimbursements, retirement contributions, and an employee handbook.

There are also several risks around hosting an in-person event in an ongoing global pandemic. We hope to implement lessons learned over the past three years by including a virtual option for participation and establishing safety protocols (including using outdoor spaces, providing masks, planning with venue partners around ventilation and clean air flow for indoor spaces) to help mitigate those risks.

Beyond health risks, there are inherently other risks around an event with virtual participation. Things like platform failures are prevalent, but with planning and lessons learned from other virtual conferences, we hope to do our best to mitigate those risks as well.

In what ways do you think your proposal most contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendations. Select a maximum of THREE options that most apply. Required

• Increase the Sustainability of Our Movement  
• Improve User Experience  
• Provide for Safety and Inclusion  

Please state if your organization or group has a Strategic Plan that can help us further understand your proposal. You can also upload it here. Optional.

• Yes  

https://artandfeminism.org/initiatives/current-initiatives/strategic-planning/

Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation

What do you hope to learn from your work in this fund proposal? Describe the main things you would like to learn if you have created the change that you wanted and that your strategies worked? You can describe these in the form of Learning Questions. The data you collect should help answer these questions. required 3000 character limit

Our main learning goal is how to continue making Art+Feminism in a fully global organization in an equitable and accessible way. Our learning questions are related to the strategies chosen to reach that goal:

1. Global reach: What is the effectiveness and impact of having  incorporated a more international team, at board, and lead co-organizer levels?
2. Equity: What is the effectiveness and impact of having  made meaningful changes to the ways in which regional ambassadors and network organizers partner with us?
3. Accessibility: What is the effectiveness and impact of having translated our materials into a wider selection of languages?

To help us measure this success, we’d like to build on the pathways we’ve established in 2022 and continue building and exploring other ways in which we can measure our work in qualitative ways.

Based on these learning questions, what is the information or data you need to collect to answer these questions? Please register this information (as metric description) in the following spaces provided. Required.

Metric name: Number of new partnerships with international networks and/or organizations.

Description: As a result of the addition of 1 new board member, as well as 2 new members to the team of lead co-organizers, all of whom come from outside the United States, we hope to create new links with networks and organizations in which these new members participate.

Target:  At least three new partnerships with networks or organizations internacionales.

Metric name: Level of satisfaction expressed by regional ambassadors and network organizers.

Description: We seek to make equity a cross-cutting principle incorporated into strategies to improve the regional ambassador and network organizer programs, as a result of which the members of these cohorts express satisfaction with the programs and wish to continue working with us.  

Target: 90% want to continue working with us.

Metric name: Amount of use and access to our materials and activities from new language communities.

Metric description: As we translate our materials into new languages and consistently incorporate accessibility tools into our activities for non-English speaking communities, we seek greater participation of new language communities in the use of our materials, participation in our events, as well as in existing instances of community dialogue such as consultation processes, open calls and application for Wikimedia Foundation funding.  

Target: At least three new language communities.

Metric name: Regional Ambassador and Network organizer Programs Development

Metric description: In 2022, as part of our regional ambassador program development, our program manager instituted the use of annual plans - a written document where each of our regional leaders establishes a personal or regional goal that aligns with the goals of the organization. Our regional leaders were supported in crafting their goals during one on one meetings with the program manager.  This was a successful step that we wish to continue to deepen these relationships and work. Because of these successful engagements, we now have regional leaders who are contributing to the organization's communications strategy, developing outreach strategies specific to the region they support, and taking leadership roles in the organization’s event planning. These engagements have also helped us to start preparing for regional leaders for other opportunities within the organization and helped us better accommodate team members with disabilities by allowing us to craft work plans that account for additional support needs.

Creating more individual plans seems to be a good direction for this program to engage regional leaders beyond the standard expectations of the role. These plans so far have proven to be of mutual benefit by fulfilling organizational needs and keeping these team members engaged within the organization. Over the long-term, we expect to see improved retention and better transition processes with the implementation of these plans.

Our goal is to have 100% completion of 1:1 meetings with all regional ambassadors and network organizers.

Target: 100%

Metric Name: Evaluation of Funded Events

Metric description: For the past three years, we’ve been requiring that event organizers that received microfunding from Art+Feminism complete a brief form upon completion of their event. The form can be completed in the submitter’s primary language and includes the following fields in:

*Name

*Email

*Location (City, Country)

*Language

*Event dashboard

*Art+Feminism Event Calendar Link

*How many people attended your event

*Language of Event

*Attendee Email Addresses

*Upload any photos from your event

*Wiki Commons photo link

*Comments/Feedback for A+F Leadership

*Comments/Testimony to share publicly

Art+Feminism microfunding primarily offsets costs of child care and food and internet connectivity to make event more accessible. An event organizer in Nigeria shared, “The funding supported the event and removed the challenge of internet inadequacies.”

Our goal is to have at least 80% of all funded events complete the form.

TARGET: 80%

Metric Name: Community Support Sessions + Community Hours

Metric description: We find it important to continue to create spaces for peer learning and general support. Arguably the best part of Art+Feminism is the community. In the recent one-on-one check-ins with Regional Ambassadors, a common theme was folx expressing wanting to have more areas and spaces for connection with each other.

For the Community Support Sessions, to encourage participation, we do not record these sessions. We communicate to participants “This is your space to share how you are doing. These sessions are not required, but initiated to create a space for informal conversation and connection.  At a session in Q1 2022, there was a wide variety of  organizers in terms of location and also in terms of experience. For some it was their first time organizing an event and others have been organizers for years. All participants were curious and generous, creating a robust conversation that we’ve heard extended after the conversation.

For Community Hours, these are offered on a variety of topics in the efforts of ongoing and peer learning. In 2022 we’ve offered sessions on adding event data to wikidata, remixing our Call to Action Art Commission on Wikimedia Commons, and will soon be offering a workshop on zine making for our European community. We recognize that our community is incredibly talented and diverse and are very knowledgeable in a variety of topics that other folx in our community might be interested in. We offer a modest honorarium to lead these sessions and also offer a Data/Internet Connectivity Reimbursement for Community Hours attendees who reside in regions, where expenses for private internet/data costs are prohibitively expensive of $5 USD.

Our goal is to average at least one session a quarter.

Target: 4

Core quantitative metrics

21.1 If for some reason your proposal will not measure these core metrics please provide an explanation. If needed, you can also use this space to make any additional comments or observations about these core metrics. 1000 character limit

We’re able to report any metrics that can be drawn from Programs & Events Dashboard, but we do not wish to set artificial “target” numbers. This does not serve our internal goals and values. We continue to be conscious that we’re still in a global pandemic and do not wish to add additional pressure to our organizers to have a certain number of events, attendees, articles, etc. We’re celebrating the fact that they’re organizing and find any contribution worth celebration and praise and can report on those results periodically to WMF if that is helpful without set targets.

What tools would you use to measure each metric selected? Please refer to the guide for a list of tools. You can also write that you are not sure and need support. Required 2000 character limit

The Programs & Events Dashboard maintained by WikiEdu is a critical tool for Art+Feminism organizers. Further,  it enables us to update this overall statement to help celebrate the overall reach and impact of the organization: “Since 2014, over 20,000 people at more than 1500 events around the world have participated in our edit-a-thons, resulting in the creation and improvement of more than 100,000 articles on Wikipedia and its sister projects.”

Further, as we’re looking to work with a consultant to develop a new communications strategy, we will be implementing the use of various analytic tools to track the impact. We already have some tools embedded in the website and newsletter services we use and plan to implement the use of a comparable tool to track engagement on our social media accounts. With the support of our hired consultant we will set goals for the campaign year. We expect to be able to examine year-to-year changes (i.e. November 2022 v. November 2021) and month-to-month changes over the course of the campaign (November 2022 to August 2023). We will use this data to help inform our media strategy going forward.

Financial Proposal

What is the amount you are requesting from WMF? Please provide this amount in your local currency. If you are thinking about a multi-year fund, please provide the amount for the first year. 23.1 Local Currency Type 

USD

23.2 What is this amount in US Currency (to the best of your knowledge)? 

$366,179 USD

Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1deZt68qWR1q-LB3qjRVtXvPV3cvSNiTOxj1RHBcjhkk/edit#gid=1121951481

24.1 Please include any additional observations or comments you would like to include about your budget. Optional. You can use this space to explain how your budget reflects the key investments needed to achieve your results. You may want to highlight important investments to overcome barriers or inequities.

The key investment in this budget is in people that make this organization run. Through funding made possible by the Ford Foundation, Art+Feminism was able hire an administrative position and this funding will continue to subsiduze the position for 2023, but we are asking for WMF to support the role moving forward. We have actively been meeting with relevant foundations in order to diversify our funding sources, but this additional commitment from the WMFwould greatly help us in our goals.

Furthermore, the effects of inflation can be felt globally and we have adjusted our budget for 2023 accordingly. It is consistent with our values that our staff is compensated equitably. According to the US Federal Government, the cost of living adjustment (COLA) is increasing to 9.6% for 2023. We’ve been practicing increasing salaries by 3% for COLA in the past, but have made adjustments for the 2023 budget to reflect the federal rate for all full-time staff.

Overall, we're requesting 9.22% more than the previous grant.

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