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Aug 21, 2009, 8:18 AM

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$500, 000 operational support from Hewlett Foundation

The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation has decided to generously
support us with $500,000 in operational funding. More information in
the press release:

http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Hewlwett_Fdn_grant_August_2009

This is not a project-based grant like the Stanton and Ford
initiatives, but designed to advance the mission of the Wikimedia
Foundation as a whole. We're very grateful to Hewlett for their
support! :-) It comes out of Hewlett's Open Educational Resources
initiative, which is an acknowledgment that Wikimedia is an important
part of the OER movement.

Big thanks to Sara Crouse for her work on the proposal that led to this grant.
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Erik Möller
Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation

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Aug 21, 2009, 8:29 AM

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Re: $500, 000 operational support from Hewlett Foundation [In reply to]

On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 5:18 PM, Erik Moeller <erik [at] wikimedia> wrote:

> The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation has decided to generously
> support us with $500,000 in operational funding. More information in
> the press release:
>
>
> http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Hewlwett_Fdn_grant_August_2009
>
> This is not a project-based grant like the Stanton and Ford
> initiatives, but designed to advance the mission of the Wikimedia
> Foundation as a whole. We're very grateful to Hewlett for their
> support! :-) It comes out of Hewlett's Open Educational Resources
> initiative, which is an acknowledgment that Wikimedia is an important
> part of the OER movement.
>
That's great. Congratulations.

>
> Big thanks to Sara Crouse for her work on the proposal that led to this
> grant.

Thanks Sara!
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thomas.dalton at gmail

Aug 21, 2009, 8:38 AM

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Re: $500, 000 operational support from Hewlett Foundation [In reply to]

2009/8/21 Erik Moeller <erik [at] wikimedia>:
> The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation has decided to generously
> support us with $500,000 in operational funding. More information in
> the press release:
>
> http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Hewlwett_Fdn_grant_August_2009
>
> This is not a project-based grant like the Stanton and Ford
> initiatives, but designed to advance the mission of the Wikimedia
> Foundation as a whole. We're very grateful to Hewlett for their
> support! :-) It comes out of Hewlett's Open Educational Resources
> initiative, which is an acknowledgment that Wikimedia is an important
> part of the OER movement.
>
> Big thanks to Sara Crouse for her work on the proposal that led to this grant.

Congratulations! That is really good news.

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Aug 21, 2009, 11:44 AM

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Re: $500, 000 operational support from Hewlett Foundation [In reply to]

Good work and kudos to the Hewletts.

/Lennart

2009/8/21 Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton [at] gmail>

> 2009/8/21 Erik Moeller <erik [at] wikimedia>:
> > The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation has decided to generously
> > support us with $500,000 in operational funding. More information in
> > the press release:
> >
> >
> http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Hewlwett_Fdn_grant_August_2009
> >
> > This is not a project-based grant like the Stanton and Ford
> > initiatives, but designed to advance the mission of the Wikimedia
> > Foundation as a whole. We're very grateful to Hewlett for their
> > support! :-) It comes out of Hewlett's Open Educational Resources
> > initiative, which is an acknowledgment that Wikimedia is an important
> > part of the OER movement.
> >
> > Big thanks to Sara Crouse for her work on the proposal that led to this
> grant.
>
> Congratulations! That is really good news.
>
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Lennart Guldbrandsson, chair of Wikimedia Sverige and press contact for
Swedish Wikipedia // ordförande för Wikimedia Sverige och presskontakt för
svenskspråkiga Wikipedia
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Aug 22, 2009, 6:56 AM

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Re: $500, 000 operational support from Hewlett Foundation [In reply to]

On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 7:44 PM, Lennart
Guldbrandsson<wikihannibal [at] gmail> wrote:

> Good work and kudos to the Hewletts.

Indeed. Well done to all concerned.

The Hewlett site has a contact page and I have sent them a heartfelt
thank you message giving them a little perspective on what Wikipedia
means to me.

I'm entirely unsure whether it would be a good idea to send them lots
of thank you posts: maybe it would be more annoying than anything? On
the other hand perhaps it would make them beam with pleasure. Hard to
say. But if you do want to thank them, and you think they'd be pleased
to hear from us, the contact page is here:

http://www.hewlett.org/contact

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