Foundation/Weekly Priorities/2020-01-13

Mozilla Foundation Weekly Priorities: January 13, 2020

Mark is being interviewed by Kara Swisher, an American technology business journalist and co-founder of Recode
Ongoing board recruitment, see the blog post and reach out to Sarah W with questions or recommendations
All Hands prep, reach out to Lainie with questions
Final prep for January 21st event with AI funders in Europe, reach out to Sarah W with questions
Donate/Thunderbird, Venmo & microtargeting, follow up to AI survey (Engagement)
Prep for new MozFest city announcement (OLE)
Working on follow up and next steps for the Ring 2fa campaign and the India Intermediary Liability work (Campaigns)
Identifying stakeholders/potential partners who can form a brain trust around creating guidelines for what trustworthy voice activated AI looks like (Campaigns)
Donor Care; closing 2019 (Will/Steph/Hilary)
2020 Marketing Campaign and Major Gifts planning (Jessie/Jesse)
Preparations for launching two new fellowships (Tech in Civil Society Fellows, funded by Ford (Melissa until new PO is hired) + Common Voice Fellows, funded by GIZ and being run as part of a broader MoCo collab (Michelle))
Hosting the 4th CMA webinar on Thursday 1/16 (Jenn, w/ Sam Gregory from WITNESS as the speaker)
Planning the Spring Fellows Summit - March 16-20 in Berlin (Janice)

2020 planning - Jess Stillerman from Aleron joined the call to discuss the facilitation approach for an in-person meeting in NYC Jan 15-17 where the executive team will review the proposed 2020 team plans holistically, looking at connections to our org-wide OKRs as well as feasibility based on resourcing. The outputs from this meeting will inform wave 2 team planning, which will include team OKRs and roadmapping. We’ll have time to work on this during All Hands as well.
Board prep - Discussed the overall agenda and goals for the Feb 5-6 board meeting where we’ll present the top line 2020 plan and budget for approval.

Currently in case study stage for Director, Leadership Programs
Program Officer, Fellowships & Awards (to support new Ford Global South fellowships) is currently in the final selection process
Team interviews for Content Marketer are ongoing throughout this week