We want to highlight some of what we’ve improved upon over the last six months, and share that for the first time in years, we are open to new project applications this fiscal year.
This article summarizes some of the key points raised during a panel discussion entitled "Get the Money: Fiscal sponsorship and other ways to receive and administer grants and donations'' (April 2022). The seminar aimed to provide information on the operational work involved in running a grant-funded project, and to answer questions from current and future Event Fund grantees looking to establish an operational configuration best suited for receiving their funding.
The Carpentries build global capacity in essential data and computational skills for conducting open research. Last year, supported by an Event Fund grant, the Carpentries hosted their first virtual CarpentryConnect from South Africa. The team is proud to announce that the closed captions of the opening and closing keynotes are now available in both isiZulu and isiXhosa! Translations into these African languages represents an important step towards continuing to foster an active, inclusive, diverse community of learners and instructors that better reflects the world's diversity of languages.
The Incubator hosted sessions on engaging volunteers and volunteer labor, on considerations for scaling open projects, on developing a financial strategy, and on the landscape of digital infrastructure funding.