# Wikimedia Celebrates Hewlett Grant - Host: [readwrite.com](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/readwrite.com/) - Saved: August 23, 2009 (2009-08-23T22:22:10Z) - Record: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/785a7f26335d/ - JSON: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/785a7f26335d.json ## From the page (probably an excerpt, not Jamie's words) The Wikimedia Foundation just emailed ReadWriteWeb to announce receipt of $500,000 in grant funding from The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. The grant is a part of a $100 million dollar program to fund open education resources, and given Wikimedia's mission to encourage the growth, development and distribution of free, multilingual content, the Hewlett Foundation couldn't have chosen a better org. Sponsor Wikimedia has contributed to open education in a number of ways including by providing full courses and textbooks through Wikiversity and Wikibooks and a number of learning resources and commons material through Wikisource and Wikicommons. Three days ago the organization celebrated Wikipedia's 3 millionth English article and 2 days ago it launched its official iPhone app. In a week of landmark announcements, the company has managed to charm the Hewlett Foundation and kick start its strategic planning process. "The Hewlett Foundation's support comes at a critical time," said Wikimedia Foundation's Executive Director Sue Gardner, "We've just begun the planning that will help us identify how to maximize our impact around the world. This support will help us to execute our priorities for the current year, and enable us to plan for the future." In true crowd sourced Wikimedia fashion, the organization launched a public wiki for community strategic planning. To add your input in how the community is shaped in the next 5 years, visit the Call for Proposals page. Discuss ## Facts - Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/) ## Same host - [Postling: Etsy Founders Do Social Media for Small Business](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/17a421167872/) (readwrite.com, August 6, 2009) - [Facebook Snags Open Web Community Leader Recordon](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/288dccd42207/) (readwrite.com, August 25, 2009) - [Google Maps Gets Smarter: Crowdsources Live Traffic Data](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/c1ee838045f8/) (readwrite.com, August 25, 2009) - [LazyFeed: 1st Independent RSS Aggregator Declares Support for RSSCloud](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/4a35e4b17acb/) (readwrite.com, September 7, 2009) - [On Twitter: What's Valuation Got to Do With Revenue?](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/4a4beb42cda5/) (readwrite.com, September 16, 2009) ## Saved the same week - [Snow Leopard shipping status now moved to "PREPARED FOR SHIPMENT"](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/013ebce5db4c/) (9to5mac.com, August 22, 2009) - [Twitter To Charge For Premium Accounts Later This Year](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/0f06cb13e867/) (gigaom.com, August 22, 2009) - [Location, Location, Location](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/fae92929ef43/) (blog.twitter.com, August 23, 2009) - [Dorthy.com: A (Semantic) Search Engine for Dreams](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/5ddbaaf51ae5/) (readwriteweb.com, August 23, 2009) - [Tech Support Cheat Sheet](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/f0de75a86dde/) (xkcd.com, August 23, 2009) ## Elsewhere - Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://readwrite.com/2009/08/20/wikimedia_celebrates_hewlett_grant