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Fundraising Working Group

Scope of responsibilities

This working group coordinates fundraising efforts, particularly around corporate and major donations.

The goals of the group are:

  • Acquire funding to secure the financial future of Django and support its future growth
  • Build and strengthen relationships between Django and funding sources
  • Raise awareness of the Django web framework and its community with the broader world

Delegated responsibilities:

  • Contacting, developing and implementing financial sponsorships with funding sources
  • Clarifying and elaborating on the various creative strategies that funding sources of different sizes and types can use to support Django

Initial membership

  • Chair: Thibaud Colas
  • Co-Chair: Priya Pahwa
  • Board Liaison: Jacob Kaplan-Moss
  • Other members:
    • Tom Carrick
    • Sarah Abderemane
    • Stephanie Goulet
    • Çağıl Uluşahin Sönmez

Future membership

Direct membership: new members may self-nominate; the WG will vote (50%+1) to approve/deny new members; the WG will directly vote on new Chair/Co-Chairs.

This committee is currently forming and seeking volunteers, including chair and co-chair.

Navigating Conflicts of Interest

The Fundraising Working Group adheres to the Django Software Foundation Conflict of Interest Policy and follows all procedures outlined within it. This includes but is not limited to procedures related to disclosure, resolution, and reporting of conflicts of interest.

Budget

The board wil be asked for funds as needed.

Comms

  • Collaborative documents
  • Private channel in DSF Slack
  • Monthly synchronous meetings

Reporting

The Fundraising Working Group is required to submit regular reports on fundraising efforts.

Frequency: at least quarterly, with a strong preference for some sort of live "dashboard" (read: Google Sheet) that's updated more regularly for the Board to check any time.

The specifics of what needs to be in the report will change over time and should be an ongoing conversation between the Fundraising Working Group and the Board. It can and should change and evolve over time. It should probably should include things like documentation of its operations and fundraising efforts and strategy, anticipated next steps on funding opportunities, planned interactions with major donor leads, updates of other activities the group is working on, etc.

The Fundraising Working Group is also expected to report any meta-issues or problems to the board. E.g. ongoing strategic questions without answers, problems with DSF infrastructure, emerging issues, and so forth.