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Funding and contributions could come from any content producer, consumer, business, or organization who values what we provide. There will be many variations depending on whether the entity is a non-profit, for-profit or has an affiliation with both.

Contents 1 Guidelines 1.1 Fiscal sponsor 1.2 Create custom support package 1.3 Collect and distribute funds 2 Other Funding approaches 2.1 Collaborative funding efforts from users and consumers 2.1.1 Drupal code sprints 2.1.2 Related discussions and approaches 2.2 Sponsored training programs 2.3 Donations/grants from charitable foundations and corporations 2.3.1 Drupal examples 3 Innovative fundraising tools and ideas 4 Additional Resources

Guidelines

Fiscal sponsor

Leverage fiscal sponsor to collect and distribute funds.

Create custom support package

Create a custom support package for the particular project, initiative, or program in which your seeking funds.

Collect and distribute funds

Funds collected by Deproduction and allocated to the appropriate project or program on Foss Factory. The following projects are already set up:

• Drupal Kata - any open source product or project would be set up as a 'subproject' of the Drupal Kata.
  • Open Learning and Collaboration portal - This project will both build off and be an opportunity to contribute new features to the Open Media project. As complete documentation a requirement, there will be an opportunity to collaborate where there is overlap.
  • Media upload and distribution - This is a key component to all Drupal based media projects.
• Media program (TBD) - and media project, program, or event would be set up as a 'subproject' of this program.

Other Funding approaches

Collaborative funding efforts from users and consumers

Drupal code sprints

• Drupal.org redesign code sprints - a series of sprints to help push the drupal.org redesign closer to completion
• Formal usability testing of Drupal 7 at the University of Baltimore, February 2009
• Fields in Drupal core code sprint - 5-day Fields in Drupal core code sprint at Acquia! The goal is to get CCK functionality into Drupal 7. Raised $5682.36
  • Fields in Core Code Sprint Final Report
• Media Code Sprint (2009)
• Virtual Code Sprint on Internationalization in Drupal Core
• Drupal Outreach Code Sprint II - One-day code sprint to build a website for a local non-profit organization

Related discussions and approaches

• Collective funding, design and development of Drupal projects - good discussion about the prospect of the Drupal community using a system that allows collective design, funding and development of any Drupal project.
• Marketplace for Module Development and Improvement – a way for individual Drupal users and Drupal shops – especially smaller shops – to pool resources to fund specific module development.
• Setting up a dual-purpose dedicated fund? - discussion about some sort of bounty system - in which the Drupal Association offers little incentives to solve important outstanding issues and gives some extra attention to the things you, our community trustees, think are important.

Sponsored training programs

• Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is a program that offers student developers stipends ($5000 per accepted developer) to write code for various open source projects.
  • Previous projects from 2008
• Google Highly Open Participation Contest (GHOP) - initiative to get pre-university students involved in open source software development. Tasks range from improvements to code base, marketing materials, documentation and user experience research.
  • Previous tasks for 2008

Donations/grants from charitable foundations and corporations

Drupal examples

• Knight Drupal Initiative - Knight Foundation is working with the Drupal community to enable more people to enter the digital conversation by lowering the technical barriers to entry; provide powerful tools for digital publication, free and open to all; encourage people to improve their communities by supporting the free exchange of information and ideas.
  • Previous proposals from 2008
  • grants range from 40 - 80k
• Knight News Challenge - The goal is to spur innovation in the delivery of information and news using digital media.
  • several Drupal projects awarded 300 - 600k/each
• Knight Community Information Challenge helps support projects that are providing local news and information to their communities in fresh, creative ways.

Innovative fundraising tools and ideas

• FOSS Factory provides an online marketplace that aggregates demand and supply for FOSS projects. In this marketplace people can direct money, time, and skill to enable FOSS projects to succeed.
• Amazee offers a free platform for people to come together and collaborate online on projects. Features include a project magazine (with cool drag and drop functionality), wiki, events calendar, discussion forums, sponsoring etc.
  • related Drupal post (with many references) - http://groups.drupal.org/node/15378
• ChipIn - Web-based service that simplifies the process of collecting money from groups of people.
• Tipjoy - Tipjoy offers as a basic micropayment system that allows bloggers to leave virtual tipjars on their sites, asking for donations from users who appreciate their material. The system can also be used to collect money for any number of purposes, including charity and digital goods.
• Cofundos - helps to realize bright ideas by providing a platform for their discussion and enrichment and by establishing a process for organizing the contributions and interests of different stakeholders in the ideas.
• Ideablob is where entrepreneurs and small business owners can share and grow their business ideas – and have a chance to win $10,000 towards fulfilling them.
• Firstgiving- lets individuals raise money online for any nonprofit organization in the US.
• Fundable - lets groups of people pool funds to make purchases or raise money.
• GiveMeaning - online fundraising site emphasizing creative fundraising ideas and other unique forms of charity donation.
• Giveness - Online Shopping System that generates incremental income for nonprofits whenever a supporter shops online through Giveness.
• Network for Good - bringing together donors, volunteers and charities online to accomplish good.
• Pledgebank - allows users to set up pledges and then encourages other people to sign up to them. A pledge is a statement of the form 'I will do something, if a certain number of people will help me do it'.
• Prosper - People who need money request it, and other people bid for the privilege of lending it to them.

Additional Resources

• Global fundraising
• NetSquared
• TechSoup
• PBS Sponsorship
• NPR Sponsorship and Support
• KPCC support
• SGPTV - The Sponsorship Group for Public Television is a full-service sales, marketing and client services team that secures national corporate sponsors for signature PBS programs.
• National Public Media to Partner with Operative, Inc. for Online Sponsorship Workflow Automation
• NPR and WGBH buy underwriting broker National Public Broadcasting