Django Weblog: Call for volunteers: Fundraising Working Group

The useful part

That funding is what allows us to continue supporting the Django Fellows, Django Girls, community events, Djangonaut Space, infrastructure, and the many other things that keep the Django ecosystem going. It also gives the DSF the room to do something new: hire its first Executive Director. Director who will bring dedicated, day-to-day leadership to the Foundation, including sponsorship development and partner relationships.

How it works

• Group will have an opportunity to work closely with the person in this role as we build out our fundraising efforts.
• If you have experience with fundraising, sponsorships, partnerships, business development, sales, donor relationships, or building relationships with companies, there is plenty of scope to put that...
• We need to think about how we build relationships with companies that depend on Django, how we make sponsorships meaningful, how we find new ways for organisations to support the project, and how we...
• We need people who can help identify opportunities, open doors, develop ideas, and turn them into actual fundraising initiatives.

Details worth keeping

This is a particularly interesting time to get involved. The DSF has raised its 2026 fundraising goal to $500,000. You can read more about the DSF's fundraising goals for 2026 in this post.