Task force/Recommendations/Movement roles 5

Strategy 5: Universities as Chapters

This is a recommendation as submitted by the movement roles task force.
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Question/Problem

difficulty of forming legal nonprofit in many developing countries

Strategy

enable nonmembership structures such as university departments to serve in the chapter role

Assertion and background information

The Wikimedia movement should enable nonmembership structures such as university departments to serve in the chapter role in countries where it is difficult to form a legal nonprofit, for the purpose of furthering Wikimedia chapters and local activities throughout the developing world.

developed from Question: should we recommend enabling universities to take on the chapter role in some developing countries