Mozilla Foundation Weekly Priorities: July 6th, 2020

Key Dates

• July 13-15 - MoFo Board Meeting
• July 14 - Creative Media Award launch - “TheirTube” - Tomo Kihara
• July 20 - Creative Media Award launch - “In Event of Moon Disaster” - Halsey Burgund and Francesca Panetta
• July 21: event with Ford + Siegel for fellows in the Open Web track
• July 22 - MoFo Monthly Call
• July 27 - Creative Media Award launch - “Deep Reckonings” - Stephanie Lepp
• July 29 - RCS Challenge Summer Summit

What's Moving This Week

• Insights: Second review of the data stewardship literature review and database analysis, call for Ideas IHR preparations, brainstorms Internet Health Report, strategy for landscape analysis online presence and outreach, scoping movement partnerships landscape analysis with F&A
• Campaigns: Asking Nextdoor to end collabs with Police, Ring follow-up actions, US Election and Misinfo-theme campaigns development, #stophateforprofit potential follow-up actions
• Communications: Publicity planning for fellows Harriet, Daniel, and Kostas' upcoming project launches; publicity planning for remaining CMAs; early planning for August D&D
• Partnerships: H1 fundraising analysis, getting the Ford proposal out the door, and fellowship off-boarding event planning
• Fellowships & Awards: Tech + Society fellowship applications moving from review to interview; Organizing Fellows Roundtable for ProtoLab; Coordination with partners + the partnerships team on the July 21 event for fellows; Ford partnership proposal (w/ partnerships + ops); Processing fellowship contract extensions (w/ legal); Sharing out June updates from fellows + awardees; Preparing RFP for commissioning an external eval of our programs; Landscape analysis prep (w/ Insights); Planning for the RCS virtual Summer Summit (w/an industry panel to address ethics+CS in hiring)
• Organizational Effectiveness: Prep for July staff call, Data Lead interviews, H2 planning, prep for Engagement Survey analysis
• MozFest: A new D&D, MozFest digital book planning, new Working Group program, and an event collaboration with F&A
• Finance & Ops: Complete RSM Contract; prepare financials for upcoming MoFo and MZLA Board Meetings; Complete 990 Workbook
• HR: Focusing on filling open positions and preparing for upcoming recruitment; Reviewing D&I in HR processes
• Engagement: Publications planning, content/campaign designs, homepage refresh, PNI planning, Elections planning
• Mark: Connecting with the Firefox ML team to discuss the white paper and get specific, technical feedback; hearing a summary of landscape research thus far on the African Innovation work (This will be presented by Dees who has been hosting conversations over the last few months); prep for upcoming board meeting July 13-15

Minutes From the Last Executive Team Weekly Meeting

• Board prep - Discussed deliverables for the upcoming board meeting July 13-15.
• Fundraising Update - Juan joined to share an update on fundraising as we’ve increased outreach to donors in June. Also discussed ways to better connect the fundraising team into program development to help uncover new opportunities.

Job Openings

• Phone screening for Manager, Web Development
• Applications open for Director of Advocacy
• Phone screening for Marketing Coordinator
• Interview and skills testing for Senior Manager, Marketing
• Interview stage for Data Lead
• Interviews starting for Digital Project Manager

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