Mozilla Foundation Weekly Priorities: April 27th, 2020

Key Dates

• April 28 - Twitter chat, Trustworthy Technology in the Time of a Pandemic
• May 4 - "When content moderation hurts" (an article by the Insights team)
• May 27 - Monthly MoFo Call
• Wednesdays - All-Mozilla weekly check-ins

What's Moving This Week

• What’s On The Horizon Session ~ Pandemic + Infodemic on Friday, May 1st with major donor prospects (Partnerships + Mark)
• Soliciting the next round of major gift donors, preparing for a funder briefing, and drafting various proposals and concept notes (Partnerships)
• Picking up Portfolio scoping again, continuing Zoom advocacy work (alongside cross-Mozilla partners), finalising a research--policy-advocacy proposal, partner liaison and coordination on core issues (Campaigns)
• Spinning up the European AI Fund to be set to respond to COVID-19 if possible (Mark)
• Finalizing concept note for the Data Stewardship Lab (Mark & Bob)
• Executive team retreat Tuesday + Aleron session Wednesday to kick-off work on sequencing objectives over the next few years (Executive team)
• Publishing "When content moderation hurts" article next week, recruiting research contractors for landscape analysis and designing collaboration, reconnecting with the global IHR/OLE community (Insights, Kasia)
• Festival audience research, virtual event research, and Wrangler recruiting (MozFest)
• Finalizing new contract with RSM (fka Tate & Tryon), working on new MoFo forecast for 2020; closing March Financials; working on new grant opportunities (Ops & Finance)
• Tech + Society fellowship track - Announcing today — pls share! (Melissa)
• MOSS Covid-19 Solutions Fund: Due to the high volume of applications received, we are pausing applications
• Creative Media Awards: Targeting May 26 as the launch date for the 2020-21 RFP (Jenn)
• Grant for the Web: Call for Proposals launching Apr 30 (Janice)
• Mozilla welcomes 3 new Fellows examining Trustworthy AI (Melissa)
• Continued progress on the Ford grant renewal (Amy, Bob, Kalpana)

Minutes From the Last Executive Team Weekly Meeting

• July board meeting - Made a decision that the meeting will be virtual. We will share a mid-year review of the budget, as well as an update on our long-term financial planning (part of OKR 5).
• OKR working groups - Much appreciation to KR leads for their involvement in moving the work forward. Still in the early days, but the bi-weekly meetings seem to be productive and are aiding cross-team collaboration.
• Fundraising update - Juan joined to share an update on results from our major donor appeal test-run, and plans for broadening the approach to our most committed grassroots donors in the coming weeks.

Job Openings

• Reviewing applications for Data Lead and Digital Project Manager

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