Since 2016, the New Readers program at the Wikimedia Foundation has been working with communities in Iraq, Nigeria, India and Mexico to increase awareness of our projects.
<p>In 2018, Inspire New Readers campaign was run in which 8 community projects focused at increasing awareness of Wikimedia projects were funded. After this pilot, since January 2019, Rapid grants are available to fund campaigns focused at increasing awareness of Wikimedia projects.
</p><p>Two different types of campaigns can be funded; General promotion campaigns (such as promoting a project on facebook) and Video campaigns (producing a promotional video and promoting it on social media), with an exception of an extra 1000 USD for the latter.
</p><p>This session aims to demonstrate how to apply and complete a project to increase awareness of Wikimedia projects or campaigns using rapid grants.
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