维基媒体捐赠基金董事会的非指定董事
At-Large Directors for the Wikimedia Endowment Board
关于维基媒体捐赠基金
维基媒体捐赠基金于2016年启动，旨在为维基媒体项目提供永久支持。它代表了对维基媒体项目已取得成就和未来潜力的集体信念。作为一项为增长而投资的基金，它为未来奠定了坚实的财务基础，并确保长期的安全性。
维基媒体捐赠基金由Lisa Seitz-Gruwell担任主席，以及一个董事会领导。随着捐赠基金进入成熟发展的新阶段，主席和董事会寻求新增的董事成员，以促进基金的持续增长和未来资助的分配。
关于维基媒体
维基媒体基金会是一家非营利组织，为全球自由知识提供基本基础设施。它运营着世界上最具协作性的项目（包括维基百科、维基共享资源以及其他属于多语言、免费内容维基媒体家族的各类项目）。
目前，每月有超过50万名志愿者编辑为维基百科和其他维基媒体项目做出贡献。他们已经用300多种语言编写、编辑和审核了5500万篇维基百科文章。维基媒体基金会与140多个分会、主题组织和用户群体组成的广泛附属网络协同工作。在一个月内，超过15亿个不同的设备访问来自全球的免费教育资源。
维基百科是世界上最大的免费在线百科全书，于2021年庆祝其20周年纪念。它被称为“互联网上最后的最佳之地”。在新冠疫情期间，维基百科每日访问量创下历史新高，越来越多的医疗专业人士正在向该平台贡献有关新冠疫情的知识。在188种语言中，每月超过5000万次的编辑，正通过开放平台为人类提供重要且可验证的信息。
维基媒体捐赠基金董事会
维基媒体捐赠基金董事会由7至15名成员组成，包括：
- 1名社区创始人董事（Jimmy Wales）
- 2至3名社区董事
- 4至11名普通董事
董事会努力体现地理、背景、种族/民族、性别认同、观点和兴趣的多样性。普通董事必须具有以往筹款或财务经验，并对自由知识充满热情。社区董事需要具备对维基媒体运动的深入了解，并且之前曾担任过维基媒体基金会的董事。
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About the Wikimedia Endowment
The Wikimedia Endowment was launched in 2016 in order to support Wikimedia projects in perpetuity. It represents a collective belief in what the Wikimedia projects have accomplished and what they have yet to achieve. As a fund that is invested for growth, it creates a solid financial foundation for the future and ensures long-term security.
The Wikimedia Endowment is led by Lisa Seitz-Gruwell, President, and a Board of Directors. As the Endowment reaches this next phase in its maturation, the President and Board seek to add new board members who can contribute to the ongoing growth of the fund and the distribution of future grants.
About Wikimedia
The Wikimedia Foundation is a nonprofit organization that provides the essential infrastructure for free knowledge globally. It operates the world's most collaborative projects (including Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons & various other projects that are part of the multilingual, free-content Wikimedia family).
Today more than 500,000 volunteer editors contribute to Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects every month. They have written, edited, and patrolled 55 million Wikipedia articles in over 300 languages. The Wikimedia Foundation works in tandem with a vast affiliate network of 140+ chapters, thematic organizations, and user groups. In a given month more than 1.5 billion unique devices access free educational resources from across the globe.
Wikipedia, the worldʼs largest free online encyclopedia, celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2021. It has been called “the Last Best Place on the Internet”. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Wikipedia saw record-breaking increases in daily traffic with a growing community of medical professionals contributing knowledge about COVID-19 to the platform. Over 50 million monthly edits in 188 languages in the open are keeping humanity informed with vital, verifiable information.
The Wikimedia Endowment Board
The Wikimedia Endowment Board consists of between 7-15 members, including:
- 1 Community Founder Director (Jimmy Wales)
- 2-3 Community Directors
- 4-11 At-Large Directors
The Board strives to represent a diversity of geographies, backgrounds, races/ethnicities, gender identities, points of view, and interests. At-Large Directors must have prior fundraising or financial expertise and a passion for free knowledge. Community Directors bring deep knowledge of the Wikimedia movement and must have previously served as a director of the Wikimedia Foundation Board.
At this time, the Board is actively seeking candidates for At-Large Director seats.
The Wikimedia Endowment board’s role
The Wikimedia Endowment Board of Directors serves as an essential source of guidance and support for the Wikimedia Endowment. Its primary responsibilities are to provide effective governance, help grow the Endowment fund through a combination of major gift fundraising efforts and prudent financial investments, and make grantmaking decisions that best fulfill the Endowment’s mission of protecting the long-term future of Wikimedia projects.
Specific responsibilities include:
- Ensure fiduciary and strategic oversight of the Wikimedia Endowment
- Provide and identify funding for the Wikimedia Endowment
- Work closely with the Wikimedia Endowment President, Director of Endowment, and key Wikimedia Foundation staff to identify, cultivate, solicit, and steward donors for the Wikimedia Endowment
- Set and uphold the Wikimedia Endowment’s investment and spending policies
- Identify and approve annual endowment distributions to provide financial support to Wikimedia projects that are mission-aligned
- Identify and suggest possible nominees to the Board
The Wikimedia Endowment Board is separate from the Wikimedia Foundation Board and does not have a role in shaping or approving the strategies and work plans of the Wikimedia Foundation.
A Director’s commitment to serve
Directors serve for three-year terms that can be renewed twice, for a maximum tenure of nine years. The Board convenes twice per year, with the option for Directors to attend in-person (when possible) or virtually. Meetings are typically a half-day, with other optional activities planned around the required meetings. Whether in-person or online, meetings require coordination with Directors across the world and across time zones.
All Board members are expected to participate in some capacity with the Endowment’s fundraising efforts and to serve on one of three standing committees: Finance; Governance; or Grantmaking and Community. Committees meet at least twice per year; the Finance Committee may meet as often as monthly. Committee meetings are virtual.
Directors must be willing to devote sufficient time to completing the work of the Board.This includes participating in Board and Committee meetings, donor events, and other activities to support the Wikimedia Endowment. The overall time commitment is roughly 20-40 hours per year (not including travel).
Board positions are unpaid.
Originally posted on Himalayas