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What is The Lafayette Practice?
The Lafayette Practice (TLP) consists of long-time collaborators, senior executives, academics, researchers, financial experts, philanthropic advisors, economists, data analysts, and geographers with decades of leadership in the US and internationally. TLP's partners have had an impact on community and economic development, grassroots organizing, advocacy, communications, media and crisis relations, resource mobilization, democracy building, philanthropy, and organizational advancement. Our work is carried out in a manner that is both internally and externally consistent with organizational values, cultural contexts, and privacy and security concerns. TLP synthesizes field knowledge, system analysis, and data to drive the catalytic change needed to thrive in the complex and change-oriented ecology of today's political, funding, and growth opportunity environments.

This report was researched and written by Matthew Hart and Ezra Berkley Nepon.

Acknowledgments
The Lafayette Practice is grateful to the representatives of Wikimedia Foundation and the Wikimedia community we worked with for sharing their time, expertise, and insights with us. Thank you!

Scope of Work
In the summer and fall of 2014, The Lafayette Project (TLP) conducted research to analyze Wikimedia Foundation data and narrative responses in relation to those of the PGF respondents documented in our report "Who Decides: How Participatory Grantmaking Benefits Donors, Communities and Movements."

Matthew Hart conducted and recorded interviews with Wikimedia Foundation Grantmaking Team staff in order to collect, synthesize, and reflect on their grantmaking practices. The quotes in this document are drawn from transcripts of those interviews unless othenwise specified. Interviewees from the Grantmaking team for this project were:


 * Asaf Bartov, Head of Wikimedia Grants Program and Global South Partnerships
 * Siko Bouterse, Head of Individual Engagement Grants
 * Katy Love, Senior Program Officer, Funds Dissemination Committee
 * Anasuya Sengupta, Senior Director of Grantmaking
 * Jessie Wild Sneller, Senior Manager of Global Learning & Evaluation
 * Alex Wang, Project and Event Grants Program Officer