Community Contributions

The Simpler Grants community is also looking for non-technical contributions to the project. Below you will find links to the various places that we invite the community to hold discussions in.

Warning

Prohibited activity (e.g. violations of our code of conduct or the Federal Hatch Act) are never allowed in any channel. Project maintainers have the right and responsibility to moderate and remove prohibited content from all communication channels.

Contribute to forum discussions and view our events calendar

The Simpler Grants team uses a Google Group to schedule and share ongoing events with the community. We also host a forum where community members can ask and answer each others questions.

Google Groups - Calendar / Community Forum

Contribute to community meetings and office hours

The Simpler Grants community also hosts ongoing office hours, meetings and other various events on Zoom. Please feel free to join and share your knowledge or learn more about what we do.

Zoom - Public Meetings

Contribute in discussions

The Simpler Grants community also participates in an active slack group where people can come to ask questions, read about what we do and share knowlege with other members of the team.

Slack - Community chat

Content Privacy

Important

Content that you share in the channels listed above is never fully private. Administrators can view all of the content shared in each channel, and the content in these channels are subject to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.

There are a few important considerations regarding the privacy of content that is shared in any of the channels listed above:

• Admins can view all messages: Administrators of each channel have access to view and delete or modify content shared within that channel. This includes channels that have the semblance of privacy, such as direct messages within Slack.

• Content is subject to FOIA: All of the content shared in these channels is also subject to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. That may include content that has been categorized as "internal", pending FOIA request approval. This further underscores the importance of never sharing sensitive or prohibited information in any of these changes.

Reporting & Removing Content

If content that is in violation of our above policies is posted in any of our communications channels please follow the steps below to remove the content. If you are the one who posted it by accident please remove it if possible. If someone else has posted it or you are in a channel that you do not have privileges to delete it, please contact the appropriate Simpler Grants administrator to have it removed.

Reporting & Removing Content

Change log

Major updates to the content of this page will be added here.

Date	Update	Notes
2/12/2024	Initial Content	Updated with Initial content