2025: A Commitment to Service

As we begin a new calendar year at CS&S, I’m writing to share our 2025 organizational theme, A Commitment to Service, and the strategic plan that will guide us through the end of 2025.

As a fiscal sponsor, we provide infrastructure that supports our partners in fiscal sponsorship to undertake mission aligned work. This work has never been more important. New and continuing initiatives in research and technology are consistently in need of this specific support in order to leverage the power of research, tech, and data to improve lives.

In 2025, you can expect for CS&S to be focused on the operations behind excellent fiscal sponsorship. In line with this, some of our other programs, such as the Event Fund and Digital Infrastructure Incubator, will wind down. We are grateful to the grantees and participants who have contributed to these programs, and from whom we have learned so much over the years. The work of building the Event Fund continues to inform how we think about community centered grantmaking, and the governance required to support it. We learned from the challenges of new initiatives in open source from the participants in the Digital Infrastructure Incubator. Another initiative that started as a program, CSID Network, will launch into fiscal sponsorship with CS&S this year, and will continue its important work with a structure for community governance, and the independence of a fiscally sponsored project.

In support of our commitment to service, we have refined and streamlined our organizational values and strategic plan, which will take us through 2025. We are eager to present our organizational mission, vision, values, and strategic goals as a resource to you, and as a path forward into the future of fiscal sponsorship at CS&S. We look forward to working in partnership with our fiscally sponsored projects in 2025!