Code for Science and Society

Fiscal sponsorship program: established in 2017, the fiscal sponsorship program supports community-led research, education, and technology projects working in the public interest. 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. The fiscal sponsorship grew to support 15 projects, adding three new projects in 2022/2023. (continued on schedule o) many of the projects already in the fiscal sponsorship program saw significant increases in grant and contract revenue, leading to increased program activities and improved project sustainability through revenue diversity. The increase in funding and activities in the fiscal sponsorship program expands our reach across communities leveraging education, data, research, and technology in the public interest. 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. (continued on schedule o) in 2022/20223 we continued to grow investments in communities of practice through participatory and community-centered grantmaking via the event fund. 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 continued services to support technology and data infrastructure development in the digital infrastructure incubator program. This project incubator bridges the gap between research and practice and is specific to the challenges of sustaining infrastructural public interest technology. In 2022/2023 we launched new work centered on developing and supporting communities of practice working on climate-sensitive infectious disease. We continued to host in person and virtual spaces for learning and sharing across research, data, and technology communities.