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| full name = Winifred Olliff |
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| hover text = Winifred Olliff, FDC Support Team |
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| organization = Wikimedia Foundation |
| organization = Wikimedia Foundation |
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| about me = Since 2007, I have been working with volunteers to expand global access to technology and information. I have worked in Southern and Northern California, Ilinois, Albania, and Iceland, and I speak English and Shqip. I have a degree from Northwestern University, and I spent two years in the United States Peace Corps between 2007 and 2009. I have worked for the Wikimedia Foundation since 2010, in several different roles supporting Wikimedia organizations around the world. |
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| about me = My professional background is in technology and development and I have been working in the nonprofit sector for about five years, though I am educated as a classical musician and music theorist. I was educated at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois where I received a Bachelor of Music in piano performance, and where I also studied Classics. |
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I now live in the City of San Francisco, California, where I ride my bicycle to the Wikimedia Foundation office each workday. Outside of international grantmaking and volunteerism, my interests include letterpress printing, music theory, US presidential history, California history, ancient and modern languages, and backpacking. In my free time I do volunteer gardening and trail-building at SF parks, make art, read a lot of biographies, promote safe and happy biking in SF, and give tours at a local historical society. |
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I've lived in California (United States), Illinois (United States), Albania, and Iceland, and coordinated volunteer projects in each of these locations. I speak fluent Albanian, am a native English speaker, and can get by in a number of other European languages with limited fluency. |
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| about my work = As FDC support staff, I work with our team (me, Katy Love, Anasuya Sengupta) to support grantees and applicants from intent and eligibility through final reporting on their grants. We also support the community-led decision-making process that leads to decisions about those grants, as well as the committee that makes recommendations to the Board about those decisions twice each year (the Funds Dissemination Committee). |
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I have two passions in my professional life: wikis and helping amazing volunteers create a better world, and so Wikimedia Foundation is the perfect place for me. I feel privileged to work with our community and to support the work of such a smart, innovative, and dedicated group of people. |
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| about my work = I'm Winifred Olliff, Grants Administrator at Wikimedia Foundation. I work on the following programs: |
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This involves preparing and coordinating many inputs into the FDC process, such as analysis of grant reports and staff proposal assessments, and also includes a lot of meeting and talking with grantees and committee members. The FDC process is still very new, so our team also works to coordinate feedback from all of our stakeholders to support the continuous improvement of the process. I am deeply involved with keeping the process running on a technical level, both by working with our design team (Heather Walls) to keep our space on Meta functional, and by working with the WMF legal, finance, and grants administration teams to make sure our process can be implemented successfully. |
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*WMF Grants Program (a program that funds projects aligned with WMF's mission through grants) |
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*Funds Dissemination Committee (the FDC makes recommendations to the WMF Board of Trustees for how to disseminate movement funds) |
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I also sit on the staff committee that awards Travel and Participation Grants to Wikimedia contributors, and so you might occasionally encounter me in that role. |
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*Participation Support (a joint program of WMF and WMDE that reimburses volunteers for travel expenses in order to facilitate participation in mission-aligned activities) |
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*Other volunteer support programs (as they arise and develop) |
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If you have a question about the Annual Plan Grants / FDC process, please contact me! |
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I lead the development of administrative processes related to each of these programs, keep them running efficiently, and am also involved with the development of each program. |
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| contact me = All of these Email addresses will reach me. |
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* E-mail: wolliff{{@}}wikimedia.org |
* My E-mail: wolliff{{@}}wikimedia.org |
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* E-mail for the FDC staff team: fdcsupport{{@}}wikimedia.org |
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* E-mail for Travel and Participation Support: participation{{@}}wikimedia.org |
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Another good way to reach me is my [[m:User:Wolliff|Userpage on Meta]]. |
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Revision as of 16:41, 16 April 2014
About me
Since 2007, I have been working with volunteers to expand global access to technology and information. I have worked in Southern and Northern California, Ilinois, Albania, and Iceland, and I speak English and Shqip. I have a degree from Northwestern University, and I spent two years in the United States Peace Corps between 2007 and 2009. I have worked for the Wikimedia Foundation since 2010, in several different roles supporting Wikimedia organizations around the world.
I now live in the City of San Francisco, California, where I ride my bicycle to the Wikimedia Foundation office each workday. Outside of international grantmaking and volunteerism, my interests include letterpress printing, music theory, US presidential history, California history, ancient and modern languages, and backpacking. In my free time I do volunteer gardening and trail-building at SF parks, make art, read a lot of biographies, promote safe and happy biking in SF, and give tours at a local historical society.
My work
As FDC support staff, I work with our team (me, Katy Love, Anasuya Sengupta) to support grantees and applicants from intent and eligibility through final reporting on their grants. We also support the community-led decision-making process that leads to decisions about those grants, as well as the committee that makes recommendations to the Board about those decisions twice each year (the Funds Dissemination Committee).
This involves preparing and coordinating many inputs into the FDC process, such as analysis of grant reports and staff proposal assessments, and also includes a lot of meeting and talking with grantees and committee members. The FDC process is still very new, so our team also works to coordinate feedback from all of our stakeholders to support the continuous improvement of the process. I am deeply involved with keeping the process running on a technical level, both by working with our design team (Heather Walls) to keep our space on Meta functional, and by working with the WMF legal, finance, and grants administration teams to make sure our process can be implemented successfully.
I also sit on the staff committee that awards Travel and Participation Grants to Wikimedia contributors, and so you might occasionally encounter me in that role.
If you have a question about the Annual Plan Grants / FDC process, please contact me!
Contact me
All of these Email addresses will reach me.
- My E-mail: wolliff
wikimedia.org - E-mail for the FDC staff team: fdcsupportwikimedia.org
- E-mail for Travel and Participation Support: participationwikimedia.org
Another good way to reach me is my Userpage on Meta.