Sue Gardner, the Wikimedia Foundation’s amazing Executive Director, recently announced plans to step down later this year, and has launched a search for her successor. She is one of the most insightful and collaborative voices in the movement, and a good friend. And she has led some of our most ambitious organizational and financial shifts: our focus on individual fundraising, the transition to a community-led funds dissemination process, and a growing attention to grantmaking. It is hard to imagine the Foundation without her…!!
We have been discussing this internally among the Board for a month now; and the transition planned is gradual: the search is expected to take til the end of this year. But I am still getting used to the idea; it has been a long and wonderful road we have travelled during her tenure. We are also reaching the end of our first round of long-term planning, so this year and next will be a good time for a new ED to help shape the Foundation’s future and how we frame our work.
A rundown of outside news coverage:
Business Insider – The Woman Who Made Wikipedia Huge Is Stepping DownWebProNews – Sue Gardner To Depart Wikimedia Foundation, ‘Uncomfortable’ With Where Internet Is HeadingChronicle of Philanthropy – Head of Wikimedia’s Foundation Stepping DownSpeigel (Germany) – Sue Gardner: Wikipedia-Managerin will sich zurückziehenStern (Germany) – Wikipedia-Chefin Sue Gardner tritt zurückHeise (Germany) – Wikimedia braucht neue FührungFrankfurter Allgemeine (Germany) – Wikipedia-Chefin tritt zurückHandelsblatt (Germany) – Wikimedia-Stiftung braucht neuen ChefWirtschafte Woche (Germany) – Wikimedia-Stiftung braucht neuen ChefRP Online (Germany) – Wikipedia braucht eine neue FührungWAZ (Germany) – Wikipedia-Chefin kündigt Rücktritt anITEspresso (Spain) – La CEO de Wikimedia, Sue Gardner, abandona la organizaciónSilicon News (Spain) – La directora ejecutiva de la Fundación Wikimedia dice adiósDer Standard (Austria) – Wikimedia Geschäftsführerin Sue Gardner zieht sich zurückFuture Zone (Austria) – Wikimedia-Stiftung braucht neue FührungBasler Zeitung (Switzerland) – Wiki und die starke FrauDigital News (Greece) – Αποχωρεί η Sue Gardner από τη WikipediaRappler – Wikimedia’s Sue Gardner Stepping Down
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