Ramp up your knowledge about nonprofit administration. Strengthen your operational processes. Apply best practices for community engagement. Get a closer look into fiscal sponsorship agreements.
Tap into the collective expertise of our participating organizations to learn best practices and gain new perspectives on finance and operations, program implementation, and more.
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Our financial statements including Form 990 and audited financials.
A curated list of event planning guides for in-person and virtual events
This guide for fiscally sponsored projects is meant to address how to get in touch with CS&S and how long requests may take to process.
An incomplete list of things we have read, are reading, and are thinking with.
Documentation for the activity of the CS&S Board of Directors.
Code for Science & Society strives to be a community leader on issues around meaningfully inclusive public interest technology across domains.
This guide for fiscally sponsored projects is meant to address how to get in touch with CS&S and how long requests may take to process.
We are excited to share our report about the changing landscape of research-driven open source software. What will prove sustainable in the next 20 years? How can the projects and organizations emerge with the resources needed to prioritize innovation in data science for the pursuit of research?
Shared resources from the event on May 3, 2022.
Collected resources from the event on February 23, 2022.
Collected resources from the event on December 8, 2021.
Observations from working with project leads as they consider sustainability and community health.
Observations from working with project leads as they develop plans for localization, translation, and more.
Observations from working with project leads as they deepen community engagement.
Observations from working with project leads as they develop their project governance.
This impact report submitted to the Moore Foundation in August 2022 details the observed impacts of the Event Fund from 2020-2022.
Examples of and resources for developing a code of conduct and other guidelines for community participation
A curated list of event planning guides for in-person and virtual events
A worksheet to sketch linkages between event goals and activities in your upcoming event
Our financial statements including Form 990 and audited financials.
A guide to mapping out and evaluating how the specific features of your project speak to the meta goals of your project.
A general guide to US nonprofit legal requirements around donation receipts
Documentation for the activity of the CS&S Board of Directors.
A toolkit of nine activities for those interested in hosting a cross-disciplinary workshop
An incomplete list of things we have read, are reading, and are thinking with.
To develop governing bodies in a way that is mindful of historical racism in nonprofits and across science and technology, we engaged leaders in equity, DeEtta Jones and Associates (DJA), to work with us to develop processes to center anti-racist values in the way we develop governance.
It’s time for scholars to ask whether today’s data preservation technologies align with open scholarship’s values of access, preservation, privacy, and transparency.
Expectations of leaders have shifted, big time.
What is fiscal sponsorship, and how does it support project in open source?
When considering how any project will run, you typically need to understand the roles that project members play and how decisions are made.
Defining project requirements is a good way to check what your project should do and, more importantly, why.
How do we grow a truly decentralized, inclusive, and resilient movement?
When open science, open access, or open scholarship are discussed, we encourage communities to question it.
Working as an individual can be challenging, but we provide some guidance on how to grow your project and transition to a team environment as your work develops.
Considering the actions of the many players in the open scholarship space as a unified collective action – a movement -- offers an opportunity to have dramatic impact.