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ウィキメディア財団、助成金の支給を9月まで停止

アウトリーチ/WPT

ウィキメディア財団は、新型コロナウイルス感染症の感染拡大に伴い、各種助成金の支払いを停止することを発表しました。私の名義でエントリーしていたイベントも例外ではないことから、今後の対応について、今後財団と話し合いをすることとしています。

Hello,

With consideration to the recent announcement (see below) regarding WMF grants programs' response to concerns about COVID-19, I am reaching out to you in regards to grant payments we had been planning to send as early as Monday, 16 March.

We are going to hold grant payments until further notice for grants involving offline public events. I know this will cause disruptions in your planning for the next few weeks if not months, and apologize for this inconvenience. I encourage you to contact your program officers to find some alternative solutions in response to this news.

I also realize that you may have already started planning your events and activities, and may have spent part of your approved budget for those expenses in advance of them. If this is the case, we can move forward to reimburse you if you reply to this email and provide:

* an itemized list (preferably in a spreadsheet) of the items which you have already spent funds for your project
* the scanned receipts or expense documentation for those items
* the total amount you have already spent

We ask you to please consider our guidance regarding postponing or canceling your events. If you have any questions about your project, please contact rapidgrants@. I look forward to hearing from you, and to answer any questions you have. Please stay safe and diligent during this time, and if you have any further concerns, I hope we can support you as best we can.

Thank you,

A Message from Katherine Maher, Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation

Summary:

  • All offline (in-person) public events funded by Wikimedia Foundation grants must be cancelled or postponed until further notice
  • Cancellation fees, other penalties, and expenses already incurred can be covered through grant funds
  • Not complying with these instructions might affect future grant requests
  • We will not be approving new grants for offline events happening before September 15, 2020 until further notice
  • Please contact your program officers for further guidance

Dear Wikimedia Foundation Grantees,
We are writing to provide guidance for grant-funded programs during the COVID-19 pandemic.[1] This situation is rapidly evolving, and we have made some decisions that we would like to communicate to you.

Cancelling events
We have reviewed the current global public health landscape and we ask all grantees to postpone or cancel all public events and activities until the World Health Organization declares the COVID-19 pandemic over.

We know this might be a difficult decision to make, and that this will mean cancelling events of great importance to our community. We understand and appreciate all the efforts you have put into preparing these events, from requesting a grant to public outreach.

However, our first priority is the health and safety of you, your Wikimedia community, and the general public health. Global public health guidance indicates that the more quickly the world responds to a pandemic, the better off the outcomes. In order to safeguard free knowledge, we must also prioritize the well-being of the people who make it possible.

Next steps

It’s important to keep our communities together and connected during this time. We encourage you to consider if there are other ways you can repurpose the grant funds toward other mission-aligned activities, such as holding events or meetings online.

Your program officer is available if you want to discuss ideas for other ways to use your grant funds, so please reach out to us if you would like to talk. If you are unable or decide not to repurpose your event, you and your program officer will work together to repurpose the funds to a later grant or return the funds to the Wikimedia Foundation.

We are asking people to take this seriously. If we learn that you held an event using Wikimedia Foundation funds after receiving this request to cancel, we reserve the right to withhold funding for future grants.

We are here to support you and your communities through these challenging circumstances. Stay safe!

With thanks,
Katherine Maher

P.S. If you have any questions about this notice or your grant, please contact your program officer.

[1] https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019

 

こんなことがあるのかと思いながら、今後の感染拡大がどのように推移していくのかも不安なところです。今日の会見で総理大臣はまだ緊急事態宣言ではないと仰せになってはいましたが、時間の問題でもあり、経済活動との関係でもあり、予断は許さない状況ですが、助成金がどこまでフレキシブルに使えるのかは今後また報告します。