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Resolution: Funds Dissemination Committee framework and initial operation — Wikimedia Foundation Governance Wiki

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Key
wmf2012fdcframework
Issued
2012-7-11
Type
webpage
Container
Wikimedia Foundation Governance Wiki
Publisher
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
Raw CSL JSON
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  "URL": "https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Resolution:Funds_Dissemination_Committee_framework_and_initial_operation",
  "note": "Primary institutional record of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. Independent of Wikimedia Deutschland, though internal to the Wikimedia movement. Its recitals set out the sequence by which the FDC was created, and it formally establishes the committee under its Charter; passed 9-0 with one absent on July 11, 2012.",
  "type": "webpage",
  "title": "Resolution: Funds Dissemination Committee framework and initial operation",
  "issued": {
    "date-parts": [
      [
        2012,
        7,
        11
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    ]
  },
  "accessed": {
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        2026,
        8,
        28
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  },
  "language": "en",
  "publisher": "Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.",
  "title-short": "WMF FDC framework resolution 2012",
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Claims

  1. The recitals of the July 11, 2012 resolution record the sequence by which the FDC was created: the Board expressed its desire to create the committee in its fundraising letter of February 8, 2012; in its resolution of March 30, 2012 it directed the Executive Director to determine the structure and composition of the FDC; an advisory group was created to assist her; and the Executive Director prepared the framework for the creation and initial operation of the FDC, which the Board reviewed and supported. The resolution then establishes the FDC as a volunteer-driven advisory committee subject to its Charter. It was passed 9-0 with one absent.
    "In its fundraising letter on February 8, 2012, the Board of Trustees expressed its desire to create a Funds Dissemination Committee ("FDC") [...] In its Funds Dissemination Committee resolution on March 30, 2012, the Board directed the Executive Director to determine the structure and composition of the FDC; An advisory group of the FDC was created to assist the Executive Director in these determinations; The Executive Director has prepared the framework for the creation and initial operation of the FDC, which the Board has fully reviewed and hereby supports"
    Locator: section: Background Recitals; operative paragraphs · Quote language: en
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