Grants:Project/WMTR/Reintroducing Wikipedia to Turkey/Finances

This project is funded by a Project Grant

Budget

Below is your approved budget. Please use this table to keep track of actual funds spent for each line item and list the difference from the approved budget at the end of the grant period.

Expense	Approved amount	Actual funds spent	Difference
University events*	$2560	$1755	$805
GLAM Event promotion/Execution	$600	0	$600
Establishment of Assocation	$500	$170	$330
Taxes	$7000	$8431	-$1431
Office place**	$2000	$780	$1220
Internet connection	$500	$500	0
Community Management	$6000	$6000	0
Project Management	$6000	$6000	0
Misc. expenses	$300	0	$300
Total	$25460	$23636	$1824

* Changed as "hardware requirements"
** Because of pandemic conditions instead of a real office place, only a small room rented to complete formal requirements of formation of the association

Request changes

We understand that sometimes plans change. Please use this button to request approval for changes to your grant’s budget while your project is in progress. Any variation of 20% or more to any line item in your budget must be approved by staff here before you make the change (for projects with budgets of $15,000 or more, the accepted variance is 10%).

Budget change request

We are requesting to reallocation of the funds for university events (2560 USD) to be used for some hardware equipment.

Rationale

In all over the country, the university courses are being made in distance. This changes the way we carry out education programs at the universities, we join the classes remotely and we don't need any contractor work for university events. However, as the courses are starting in October, we see hardware equipment (i.e : lap top, scanner, wi-fi repeater) needs for carrying out the online sessions at university courses healthier.

Approved

@Basak: Hi Basak, thank you for this reallocation request for equipment to support transitioning your planned events into an online format.

This equipment request to support your online events is approved. I JethroBT (WMF) (talk) 20:46, 9 November 2020 (UTC)

Budget change request

Proposed budget for January - June 2021

Expense	Detail				USD
Taxes	-				$7000
Office place	-				$2000
Internet connection	-				$500
Community+ Project Management		Week	Hour	Rate($)
	Contractor1	25	12	20	$6000
	Contractor2	25	12	20	$6000
Misc. expenses	-				$300
Total					$21,800

January - June 2021

Expense	Approved amount	Actual funds spent	Difference
Taxes	$7000	$88863	-$1863
Office place	$2000	$565	1435
Internet connection	$500	0	$500
Community Management	$6000	$6000	0
Project Management	$6000	$6000	0
Misc. expenses	$300	0	$300
Total	$21800	$21428	$372

Approved

As shared by email, we have discussed this request with the Director of Community Investments and we are approving your request in order to fund WMTR until you can transition into Simple Annual Plan Grants (SAPG). For the purpose of public documentation and making sure others understand this situation, I want to be clear that we usually do not fund such large budget change requests at the end of Project Grant. However, in this case, we are seeking to cover the gap period until WMTR finds a stable funding cycle with SAPG.

Warm regards,

--Marti (WMF) (talk) 02:37, 21 February 2021 (UTC)