A bumper two-month update:
Grants: - Wrote and submitted a grant to the Rose Foundation's consumer privacy rights fund. - Wrote and submitted a grant to OTF to support a secure email bundle. - Wrote and submitted an interim report for a general operating support grant. - Was part of a grants meeting in December to figure out our 2018 grants strategy. - Was part of another grants meeting in January to figure out our plan for the next two/three months. - Worked with Alison on a letter of inquiry to support our global south work. - Worked on a statement of interest to support our modularization work. - Worked on a statement of interest to support our Tor Browser work. - Worked with Sue, Shari, and Roger to organize and populate our grants repository, so that all our important grant proposals, contracts, reports, and deadlines live in one place. - Planned a grant for onion services. - Planned a research grant with Roger. - Copy-edited various things for different people. - Researched how foundations evaluate grants to try and write better monitoring-and-evaluation sections. - Started to research more sources of funding in places that aren't North America.
As a reminder, you can use https://pipeline.torproject.net to tell me about things you're working on. I'm not the one who decides what gets funded, but I can do some financial match-making to find foundations that like to support different sorts of work.
Other: - Worked with Steph to publish two more volunteer spotlights: https://blog.torproject.org/aggregation-feed-types/volunteer-spotlight - Worked with Shari, Steph, Alison, and Jon to wrap up our end-of-year crowdfunding campaign, which (thanks to Mozilla's generous match) brought in $420,522.84. How about them onions! - Worked with Shari and Steph to publish our 2017 year-in-review: https://blog.torproject.org/2017-was-big-year-tor - Continued getting my pilot's license as part of my plan to fly to the autumn Tor meeting.
TC