Grants talk:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Pangasinan Student WikiStudy Day (ID: 22284945)

Not eligible

Hello JasDolt, unfortunately, your Rapid Fund request did not pass the initial checks required to process the grant. I understand that this can be frustrating for you but let me explain the rationale behind this decision.

Per our funding guidelines:

• General Support Fund grantee partners are not eligible for the Rapid Fund program. The start date on your General Support Fund application which will most probably be approved is 1 January 2024 and the start date on the Rapid Fund project is 15 January 2024. These two grants are overlapping.
• Board members, leaders, presidents, bank account signatories, executive directors and other paid staff or contractors of Wikimedia affiliates/groups/organizations with existing Wikimedia Foundation Fund awards (General Support Fund, Rapid Fund, Research Fund, Conference Fund, Movement Strategy Implementation Grants) are not eligible for individual grant requests.

Even though the submitted Rapid Fund is an individual type grant request, you are the president of Shared Knowledge Asia Pacific (SKAP) Inc. which applied for the General Support Fund program. You did not mention this detail in your response to question G on the Rapid Fund application. However, this is an important detail that affects your eligibility for the Rapid Funds as an individual.

Based on the details mentioned above, we are not able to move forward with your Rapid Fund request. Unfortunately, we cannot make any exceptions to these criteria. We marked the grant request as not funded and also sent a similar email. --DSaroyan (WMF) (talk) 11:38, 24 November 2023 (UTC)