Code for Science and Society

Fiscal sponsorship program: established in 2017, the fiscal sponsorship program supports community-led research, education, and technology projects. Transparency and governance are key to projects seeking to use the power of data to improve lives. The program is home to open source software practitioners, research teams, technical communities of practice, and advocates for community-centered futures in research and technology. Read more about this program: https://www.codeforsociety.org/fsp

Collaborative communities program: we envision a future where open research, data, and technology effectively work towards equitable distribution of resources, knowledge, and power. Work in our collaborative communities program invests in social and organizational infrastructure as a critical foundation for effective research and technology initiatives. We develop structures for participatory grantmaking, communities of practice, and peer-learning to support effective research and technology. In 2021/2022 we continued to grow investments in communities of practice through participatory and community-centered grantmaking via the event fund. (continued on schedule o)this fund is a community-governed funding program that supports data Science communities of practice around the world with small grants and cohort-based skill-building. We also piloted programs and services to support digital infrastructure development by launching the digital infrastructure incubator. This project incubator bridges the gap between research and practice, and is specific to the challenges of sustaining infrastructural public interest technology. We also ran events via the popular building laterally public event series and produced resources that support the practices needed to strengthen social infrastructure in technology and research communities.

Foundational technology program: the dat project: this program was discontinued in september 2021 when operations of the dat project were transferred to another fiscal sponsor with a grant of $20,000. At cs&s the dat community worked on projects related to documentation and improvement of the data sharing protocol, community outreach, and project governance.