Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Les sans pagEs 2023/Final Report
Report Status: Accepted
Due date: 2024-02-29T00:00:00Z
Funding program: Wikimedia Community Fund
Report type: Final
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General information[edit]
This form is for organizations, groups, or individuals receiving Wikimedia Community Funds or Wikimedia Alliances Funds to report on their final results.
- Name of Organization: Association les sans pagEs
- Title of Proposal: Les sans pagEs 2023
- Amount awarded: 104291 USD, 95000 CHF
- Amount spent: 95000 CHF
Part 1 Understanding your work[edit]
1. Briefly describe how your proposed activities and strategies were implemented.
We worked close to other affiliates (wikimedia CI, Wikimedia user group of Bénin, LGBT user group, Wikimedia France, Wikimedia user group of Haiti, Wikimedia CH) to adress communicaton and financing needs of the events in various parts of the world. We also collaborated well with the wikipedia community on discord, and participated to the Wiki Women Camp in India and the Francophone wikiconvention in Abidjan.
Working on the harmonization and structuration of events has been useful in securing new partnerships and training facilitators. We have worked on the design of events and trained one by one the facilitators of our events worldwide. We provided them with a pdf presentation loaded on the project page that they could use and also communication flyers uploaded on commons, and helped them achieve a working list that would set newbies on subjects that met admissibility criterias. We emphasized the use of the UCoC, the naming of a person responsible for applying our charter in each event, and we have systematized the way each of our events look with each time a single event page proposed to document what was done.
We focused on having regular events in Toulouse, Paris and Meyrin on a monthly basis, and also online maintenance sessions and informal “Wikimidis” where anybody can drop by and have a chat or ask a question. We have two channels, one on telegram and an other on discord to communicate with all our members. With the newsletter and the project discussion page, there is where we communicate the more easily with our members, ask them what they want, and share our victories, issues and motivations.
2. Were there any strategies or approaches that you felt were effective in achieving your goals?
Having very regular meetups and online session helps to knit a community together. It takes time and patience but pays in the long run even if there are only a few persons around. Regularity and systematic reporting help to have a view of what is going on. Communicating on our future activities has helped increase engagement, and documenting past events thoroughly has helped engage new institutional partnerships willing to organize gender gap events,
3. Would you say that your project had any innovations? Are there things that you did very differently than you have seen them done by others?
We have designed our own way of organizing and training facilitators for events, using exclusively dashboards and testing the new event metrics tool. A project page is done for each evetn, and is the object of a report on a newspage. This level of documentation delivers a lively and colourful communication. We delegate the marketing of the event to the partnering institution to achieve outreach. This in turns allows us to build our community transversally : we have local groups who search and train new editors, but the main activities remain online on wikipedia. The coordination of ideas and people is achieved with the telegram group, the discussion page on wikipedia being used more and more mainly for editorial purposes.
We also teach newbies early on how to discuss things on Wikipedia to make sure they know where to find help. Other projects have insisted on closed safe spaces, but we have been deliberately transparent about our activities on Wikipedia. The challenge however is that with the professionalization, some members of the community on Wikipedia have been critical, arguing that the distinction between the project and the association was not clear enough. The growing difficulties LGBT communities face is a challenge, when a significant amount of our contributors are gender non conforming. We might have to move our documentation on meta or on our website in the future. However, the project is growing fast, which is getting very challenging, and the need to pause and reflect on future strategies is emerging. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Les_sans_pagEs/Plan_d%27action_2024 We also hold an annual convention which is appreciated by our members. This event is considered as a focal point during the year, bringing motivation and inspiration. We also hold weekly online meetups since 2020. This has allowed the african and haitian community to participate and be trained on many technical aspects on Wikipedia and Wikidata as well as project management.
4. Please describe how different communities participated and/or were informed about your work.
Africa is the rising community in our project and we are very thankful to their work and engagement (Bénin, Ivory coast, Sénégal, RDC, Congo, Guinée, Cameroun, Togo). We also are increasing our partnerships with GLAM institutions with new events in Photo Elysée, University of Lausanne, University of Grenoble Archives Nationales de France, and events with an LGBTIQ+ focus : Europride games, new regular events in Liège in partnership with an association and Wikimedia Belgium. We publish our agenda on the main project page, and have designed a monthly recap that people can stick on their PC or on their social network timeline. The monthly recaps are shared on social medias (X, Mastodon, Discord, Facebook… and made visible at the top of the main project page, Our events are diversified in terms of public (LGBTQI+ people, GLAM, women…) and for each event we communicate with the associated # on social media and if it’s possible, in the internal partner’s newsletter or any appropriate channel. We also continue sharing our printed fanzine hand to hand, which is very effective to attract newcomers. The fanzine can be declined as a poster, and be used to have a lively stand or presentation.
5. Documentation of your impact. Please use the two spaces below to share files and links that help tell your story and impact. This can be documentation that shows your results through testimonies, videos, sound files, images (photos and infographics, etc.) social media posts, dashboards, etc.
- Upload Documents and Files
- Here is an additional field to type in URLs.
- Calendars posted on social medias https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Les_sans_pagEs/Calendriers .
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Teilnehmerin-vor-projekttafel.jpg) and https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Atelier_Wiki_LSP_2023_avec_Carole_Clair.jpg https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projet:Les_sans_pagEs/Quinzaine_des_autrices_francophones/2023 https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projet:Les_sans_pagEs/Femmes_scientifiques_-_UNIL https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projet:Les_sans_pagEs/Femmes_et_sciences_cognitives_2023 Examples of posters for events loaded on commons : https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Les_sans_pagEs/Affiches Examples of presentations loaded on commons for groups to use freely : https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Les_sans_pagEs/Pr%C3%A9sentations For the first time we we distributed a satisfaction survey. 57 people answered. See the results https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Les_sans_pagEs/Report_2023/Satisfaction_Survey_2023 annual activity report https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Les_sans_pagEs/Report_2023/fr https://sanspages.org/2023/03/03/on-fait-quoi-en-mars-2023/ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Quinzaine_des_autrices_francophones/Affiches_2023 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Les_sans_pagEs/Plan_d%27action_2024
6. To what extent do you agree with the following statements regarding the work carried out with the support of this Fund? You can choose “not applicable” if your work does not relate to these goals.
| A. Bring in participants from underrepresented groups | Strongly agree |
| B. Create a more inclusive and connected culture in our community | Strongly agree |
| C. Develop content about underrepresented topics/groups | Strongly agree |
| D. Develop content from underrepresented perspectives | Strongly agree |
| E. Encourage the retention of editors | Strongly agree |
| F. Encourage the retention of organizers | Agree |
| G. Increased participants' feelings of belonging and connection to the movement. | Strongly agree |
7. Is there anything else you would like to share about how your efforts helped to bring in participants and/or build out content, particularly for underrepresented groups?
Africa : Getting more and more participants and groups from Africa is both motivating and challenging. Motivating insofar as we learn other perspectives from them, are obliged to make our processes (example : creating dashboards, project pages and documenting expenses) more understandable. Among the challenges : 1- internet access in Africa is an impeding factor. 2 - getting documentation on expenses is often difficult, as well as reliable banking information. 3 - the wikipedia community does not value the bilingualism of African contributors and is not very pedagogical in its approach to new contributors. Once an article is speedily deleted, we find it hard to explain to newbies what exactly the problem was and spend too much time in having drafts reinstated for pedagogical reasons.
Part 2: Your main learning[edit]
8. In your application, you outlined your learning priorities. What did you learn about these areas during this period?
We laerned to use the event metrics thanks to Agnes and calculate retention rates. We learned to implement a poll to measure satisfaction of our members. We learned about francophone communities. We learned the challenges that come with having paid staff.
9. Did anything unexpected or surprising happen when implementing your activities?
- We found out that the African community is increasingly and energetically interested in launching LSP events- This has led to learning how to navigate with these communities from afar. # More and more GLAM institutions are asking us to provide gender equality events and are constituting an independent source of revenue
- Les sans pagEs are increasingly under scrutiny of some wikipedians wikipedians who do not appreciate affiliates intervening on wikipedia. This has increased with the professionalization of the association.
- we did a poll to which 57 participants responded. We learned that LSP contributors are in average 25 to 35 years old, have accounts 3 to 5 years old and are composed of 60 % of women and 10% non gender conforming people. People are overwhelmingly satisfied on the whole, and among all theymention they did not appreciate was the press depictions of LSP in november 2023 (mostly in far right newspapers).
10. How do you hope to use this learning? For instance, do you have any new priorities, ideas for activities, or goals for the future?
- Following increasing involvement from African communities, we discovered that there is a great need of learning what wikipedians mean by "sourcing". We need to dedicated design pedagogical approaches and time to mentor new African communities in our project.
- We might have in the future to put the documentation of our events on meta or on our website, but would it be detrimental to transparency and outreach.
- We might also require help from a lawyer and have to budget this supplementary cost as well as acquire more knowledge in that field. A diversity hub providing legal counseling for gender gap and diversity projects in the movement would be a must have.
- the satisfaction survey made us realize our community does not mainly consist of newbies anymore, but experimented contributors
- we need to strengthen budgeting and finance skills among board members, strengthen our internal processes. We need to elaborate documentation on board onboarding and also clear guidelines of what people can do within the User group.
- we need to strengthen the diversity of revenue streams to not be dependent on one big donor and find more funding to support african and lgbt projects
11. If you were sitting with a friend to tell them one thing about your work during this fund, what would it be (think of inspiring or fascinating moments, tough challenges, interesting anecdotes, or anything that feels important to you)?
One of our successes is the number of enthusiastic members who came to our summer convention. It was a very fun, powerfull and interesting moment where we shared lot of anecdotes and learned to know the other members and build a very strong community. Following this convention two actual board members joined us, one from Africa, feeling entitled to do so. One long term contributor Viking59 came to the project and it was really great to see him in real ! Tough times came when images from les sans images were suppressed on wikipedia and commons. In november, following the GA of WMFR, some press exerpts from the alt right were a strong blow to our motivation.
Recurrent harshness about our project is becoming increasingly disturbing.
12. Please share resources that would be useful to share with other Wikimedia organizations so that they can learn from, adapt or build upon your work. For instance, guides, training material, presentations, work processes, or any other material the team has created to document and transfer knowledge about your work and can be useful for others. Please share any specific resources that you are creating, adapting/contextualizing in ways that are unique to your context (i.e. training material).
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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gif_Convention_LsP_2023.gif?uselang=fr https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Convention_LSP_2023_-_2023-07-14_13-55-48_1817.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Convention_LSP_2023_-_2023-07-14_15-50-23_1858.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Am%C3%A9lie_Buri.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Atelier_wikisource_autrices_les_financiers_sont_de_retour_!.jpg
Part 3: Metrics[edit]
13a. Open and additional metrics data
| Open Metrics | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Events | number of dashboard events per year | 100 | 133 | link to dashboard 2023 https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/campaigns/lsp_2023/overview
link to event metrics https://eventmetrics.wmflabs.org/programs/913 |
dashboard
event metrics |
| GLAM events | number of GLAM events per year | 10 | 26 | link to dashboard for LSP GLAM events https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/campaigns/lsp_glam_2023/programs | dashboard + event metrics |
| Online weekly sessions | online weekly meetups and maintainance sessions of approx 2 hours | 70 | 65 | 30 documented Wikimidis ouee weekly session allowing contributors to drop in and chat or ask questions
35 documented maintainance sessions where we evaluate all created articles and solve most urgent problems on articles We have reached the target but not documented all sessions thoroughly. |
dashboard
event metrics |
| Fundraising | Fundraise outside the Wikimedia movement | 25000 | 7000 | This alas was our weekedt point this year. The level of harrassement experienced and the development of oprerational activities did not allow us to fill these objectives, although we increased our autonomy financilally by increasing our own revenue streams with GLAM intstitutions who pay for trainings, conferences and editathons focused a gender gap issues. | accounting |
| Press coverage | press article and interviews per year | 6 | 31 | Our press review is here https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projet:Les_sans_pagEs/Revue_de_presse#Revue_de_presse_2023
Some articles published by conservative media turned out to be toxic, especially around the support of WMFR to les sans pagEs. These articles emanating from far right journalists targeted our director namely. We are concerned about the fact that informations seemed to have leeked allowing such toxic targeting. À Wikimédia France, les mauvais comptes font les bons amis, Paul Sugy, Le Figaro, 11/11/2023 https://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/a-wikimedia-france-les-mauvais-comptes-font-les-bons-amis-20231111 Guerre d’édition, censure, militantisme… Wikipédia, une encyclopédie sous influence ?, Le Point, Erwan Seznec, 09/11/2023 https://www.lepoint.fr/societe/guerre-d-edition-censure-militantisme-wikipedia-une-encyclopedie-sous-influence-09-11-2023-2542506_23.php Some targeted individuals like our director with false accusations. We are not equipped legally to intervene efficiently to protect our staff from such toxic interference, This though became less virulent as an entry was created about these journalist on the Obresvatoire des sources here :
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Document on project page on Wikipédia fr |
| Additional Metrics | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of editors that continue to participate/retained after activities | percentage of editor retention | 5 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Number of organizers that continue to participate/retained after activities | percentage of organiser retention | 30 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Number of strategic partnerships that contribute to longer term growth, diversity and sustainability | number of strategic partnerships obtained | 4 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Feedback from participants on effective strategies for attracting and retaining contributors | one annual poll conducted to get feedback from participants | 1 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Diversity of participants brought in by grantees | percentage of non male participants | 50 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Number of people reached through social media publications | number of twitter followers | 4000 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Number of activities developed | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Number of volunteer hours | maintain current level of engagement (number of hours as estimated in the infind documentation provided) | 1800 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
13b. Additional core metrics data.
| Core metrics | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | new participants in 2023 | 100 | 267 | based only on event metrics, this number is higher if we take into account the new participants on wikipedia but we have no simple way of calculating that | event metrics |
| Number of editors | Newly registered users | 100 | 267 | ||
| Number of organizers | number of trained organizers | 15 |
| Wikimedia Project | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | 130 new articles per month responding to notability criteria | 130 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Wikipedia | labellised quality articles per year | 4 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Wikidata | number of trained new editors to wikidata | 10 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Wikimedia Commons | number of trained new editors to commons | 10 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Wikisource | number of trained new editors to wikisource | 10 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
14. Were there any metrics in your proposal that you could not collect or that you had to change?
Yes
15. If you have any difficulties collecting data to measure your results, please describe and add any recommendations on how to address them in the future.
Have the WMF metric teams develop new tools or make some training sessions on collecting metrics ?
16. Use this space to link or upload any additional documents that would be useful to understand your data collection (e.g., dashboards, surveys you have carried out, communications material, training material, etc).
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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Les_sans_pagEs/Dataviz https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/campaigns/lsp_2023/programs
Part 4: Organizational capacities & partnerships[edit]
17. Organizational Capacity
| A. Financial capacity and management | This capacity has grown but it should be further developed |
| B. Conflict management or transformation | This capacity is low, and we should prioritise developing it |
| C. Leadership (i.e growing in potential leaders, leadership that fit organizational needs and values) | This capacity has grown but it should be further developed |
| D. Partnership building | This has grown over the last year, the capacity is high |
| E. Strategic planning | This capacity is low, and we should prioritise developing it |
| F. Program design, implementation, and management | This has grown over the last year, the capacity is high |
| G. Scoping and testing new approaches, innovation | This capacity is low, and we should prioritise developing it |
| H. Recruiting new contributors (volunteer) | This has grown over the last year, the capacity is high |
| I. Support and growth path for different types of contributors (volunteers) | This capacity has grown but it should be further developed |
| J. Governance | This capacity has grown but it should be further developed |
| K. Communications, marketing, and social media | This has grown over the last year, the capacity is high |
| L. Staffing - hiring, monitoring, supporting in the areas needed for program implementation and sustainability | This capacity has grown but it should be further developed |
| M. On-wiki technical skills | This has grown over the last year, the capacity is high |
| N. Accessing and using data | This has grown over the last year, the capacity is high |
| O. Evaluating and learning from our work | This capacity has grown but it should be further developed |
| P. Communicating and sharing what we learn with our peers and other stakeholders | This capacity is low, and we should prioritise developing it |
| N/A | |
| N/A |
17a. Which of the following factors most helped you to build capacities? Please pick a MAXIMUM of the three most relevant factors.
Peer to peer learning with other community members in conferences/events
17b. Which of the following factors hindered your ability to build capacities? Please pick a MAXIMUM of the three most relevant factors.
Lack of volunteer time to participate in capacity building/training, Lack of knowledge of available capacity building opportunities
18. Is there anything else you would like to share about how your organizational capacity has grown, and areas where you require support?
Our organization has been growing fast and we need to build more capacities at board management level. The learning curve for volunteers is steep, and maintaining activities on Wikipedia and the sister projects while also assuming board responsibilities is challenging. The time devoted to board supporting has increased with the professionalization of the association, which brought more responsibility to board members and the growing number of board members from diverse regions which in turn brought more need for staff support. The professionalization has also brought more challenges with the wikipedian community, and time needed to address these issues has increased. Les sans pagEs would benefit from regular sessions with other affiliates to learn how to address these issues.
19. Partnerships over the funding period.
| A. We built strategic partnerships with other institutions or groups that will help us grow in the medium term (3 year time frame) | Strongly agree |
| B. The partnerships we built with other institutions or groups helped to bring in more contributors from underrepresented groups | Agree |
| C. The partnerships we built with other institutions or groups helped to build out more content on underrepresented topics/groups | Strongly agree |
19a. Which of the following factors most helped you to build partnerships? Please pick a MAXIMUM of the three most relevant factors.
Permanent staff outreach, Staff hired through the fund
19b. Which of the following factors hindered your ability to build partnerships? Please pick a MAXIMUM of the three most relevant factors.
Lack of staff to conduct outreach to new strategic partners
20. Please share your learning about strategies to build partnerships with other institutions and groups and any other learning about working with partners?
The main thing is to listen to their needs and identify win-win actions, and building events where our values meet their own. we have found that proposing a ready made editahton for March event for GLAM institutions while asking a financial contribution is helpful both for our image, outreach and finances. With African communities, learning their challenges on the field is important. Travelling to the francophone wikiconvention in Abidjan was a useful occasion to understand our african partners.
Part 5: Sense of belonging and collaboration[edit]
21. What would it mean for your organization to feel a sense of belonging to the Wikimedia or free knowledge movement?
Our organization doesn’t exist outside the free knowledge movement. We’re wikimedians and we’re fully part of the community. We’re strongly involved in the sharing of free knowledge and wikimedian values. It is a huge help when we experience something is difficult to be able to speak with our grant manager at the foundation or with other user groups or wikimedians who have had similar issues.
22. How has your (for individual grantees) or your group/organization’s (for organizational grantees) sense of belonging to the Wikimedia or free knowledge movement changed over the fund period?
Increased significantly
23. If you would like to, please share why it has changed in this way.
Getting such a financial support from the WMF is important to us, as the foundation is a very reliable partner since we started. It is a token of recognition that made us feel we were doing useful work. We are trying hard to bring contributors to international meeting, polls and reflections. We think the best way to feel we’re part of a community is to share and have quality time with other members Our sense of personal investment in the Wikimedia movement has increased with the support of the community when we were harassed for professionalization. It’s a wonderful feeling to be supported by people around the world, who care about you and what you fight for. In return we try to share what we know with other, like our director went to wiki women camp in India to share
24. How has your group/organization’s sense of personal investment in the Wikimedia or free knowledge movement changed over the fund period?
Increased significantly
25. If you would like to, please share why it has changed in this way.
N/A
26. Are there other movements besides the Wikimedia or free knowledge movement that play a central role in your motivation to contribute to Wikimedia projects? (for example, Black Lives Matter, Feminist movement, Climate Justice, or other activism spaces) If so, please describe it below.
We're a project focus on the gender gap and because of that, very involving in the feminism movement. In francophonie we're lucky to have the user group Noicir Wikipedia who works about racial biais, and happy to see them grow. We have exchanges with them and it's a very important collaboration for us. Some workshop was dedicated to activism and attract people from outside the movement (feminism, lgbt communitiesclimate change…). We answer to journalists and stay in touch with universities, especially faculties dedicated to gender studies.
Supporting Peer Learning and Collaboration[edit]
We are interested in better supporting peer learning and collaboration in the movement.
27. Have you shared these results with Wikimedia affiliates or community members?
Yes
27a. Please describe how you have already shared them. Would you like to do more sharing, and if so how?
We have shared our annual report on the i mailing list and on our news letter, telegram channel. We have sent the annual activity report to members, shared it with partners and organisations. We share a lot with our partners (Wikimédia France, Wikimedia Switzerland and User group LGBT and Noircir wikipédia mostly) and we’re involved to share in the differents international events to exchange with other groups. We also do a big work on documenting all our work on our report and our actuality page in the project page.
28. How often do you currently share what you have learned with other Wikimedia Foundation grantees, and learn from them?
We do this occasionally (less than once a month)
29. How does your organization currently share mutual learning with other grantees?
At Wikiminia, Wikimedia Summit, the Wikiconvention and one or two big thematics event like Wiki Women Camp in India. Apart from these events, we have members and our directors who go to conferences (learning clinic) and other user groups meeting, three or four time by years or more it’s depends on the international program. Mostly by documenting them in our project page and our annual report on meta. Our director and some members, created some conferences for events. We also think about movies or some short video but we haven’t the time, competences, materials and human resources for that.
Part 6: Financial reporting and compliance[edit]
30. Please state the total amount spent in your local currency.
95000
31. Local currency type
CHF
32. Please report the funds received and spending in the currency of your fund.
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- Report funds received and spent, if template not used.
33. If you have not already done so in your budget report, please provide information on changes in the budget in relation to your original proposal.
We expected 20 000 euros from WMFR but received 9000 euros. We would therefore like to request the contingency amount to cover part of this loss on our revenue streams to cover the part we did not spend (flyers) . We also struggled to have a clear estimation of social charges, evaluated at approx 18 000 CHF but which were much higner than this figure. When we designed the grant we did not have a clear view on how much this figure would be in the end as this was our first complete year with paid staff. The paid net salary was also in the end slightly higher than the figure we announced (858 CHF more) as the figure was ajusted in the last payslip to take into account social charges retrieved from the salary. We budgeted 85 000 CHF for salary based on projections given by Compabilis. This was adjested by Comptabilis at the end of the year and amount in fine to 85 858,95 CHF. This we could not have anticpated We did not have as many expense reports for internet access. Therefore we included in this budget line the Adobe account for our treasurer in Bénin to make it easier for her to assemble and treat PDF and expense reports. WMCH covered 7000 CHF for 10 participants of our annual convention, but we were 20 this year. We thought we would be able to cover the excess (5462,4 CHF) with the WMFR grant but as this funding source wentfrom a projected figure of 20 000 euros to 9000 euros we were not able to do that. We tried to compensate with our own revenue stream which amounted to 8000 chf approx, but this was not enough. We would therefore appreciate to retain the budget changes figures as budget changes (line 61) which amounts to the total spent.
34. Do you have any unspent funds from the Fund?
34a. Please list the amount and currency you did not use and explain why.
N/A
34b. What are you planning to do with the underspent funds?
N/A
34c. Please provide details of hope to spend these funds.
N/A
35. Are you in compliance with the terms outlined in the fund agreement?
As required in the fund agreement, please report any deviations from your fund proposal here. Note that, among other things, any changes must be consistent with our WMF mission, must be for charitable purposes as defined in the grant agreement, and must otherwise comply with the grant agreement.
36. Are you in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations as outlined in the grant agreement?
Yes
37. Are you in compliance with provisions of the United States Internal Revenue Code (“Code”), and with relevant tax laws and regulations restricting the use of the Funds as outlined in the grant agreement? In summary, this is to confirm that the funds were used in alignment with the WMF mission and for charitable/nonprofit/educational purposes.
Yes
38. If you have additional recommendations or reflections that don’t fit into the above sections, please write them here.
There is no unspent funds if the new budget is accepted, otherwise these amount to -1 670,82 that we would have to reimburse,