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Potential strategic priorities that have emerged from task force discussions, interviews, and other research:

Clarify roles and responsibilities

Define and codify “must do” roles and responsibilities for the Board, Foundation, chapters, and volunteers. These could include . . .

Board

Foundation

Chapters

Volunteers

From the a member of the TF - "We should assume that volunteers will perfom 99% of the movement's activities, and work on identifying the 1% that volunteers are either unable to do, or are unable to do without the help of the WMF or Chapters"

Create a chapters network/council

Create a representative council with some decision-making authority

Elected or appointed representation from chapters (and from unaffiliated volunteers?)
Works with Foundation to set global policies and strategic priorities and to oversee/coordinate collective initiatives and projects
Makes cross-project and cross-language decisions
Builds global culture and enables more consistent and constructive communication, collaboration, and best practice sharing

Invest in chapters to support reach and participation

Differentially invest in strengthening and creating chapters

Align resources with strategic priorities (e.g. reach, participation)
Strengthen/support existing under-developed chapters in high priority areas (e.g. through technical support, partnerships with stronger chapters)
Proactively seed new chapters in high priority areas if necessary (founded with Foundation/council resources)
Encourage strong chapters to take on expanded roles and responsibilities based on their unique strengths and positions

Build a global leadership team

Globally distribute movement leadership and responsibilities

Create small area offices in high priority areas (e.g. India)
Be strategic about who has a seat at the table (e.g. geographic diversity, developed vs. developing, net financials contributors vs. resource consumers)
Encourage/support travel (Foundation staff, council leadership, etc.)