💠 Donate to Keep the Web Public Infrastructure for All

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Overview

The Public Web Infrastructure Fund is a global initiative dedicated to preserving web public infrastructure as a shared, accessible resource. This project focuses on the core systems that make sites reachable, data portable, and communities connected. By contributing, you support open standards work, maintenance of essential services, and community-led stewardship that keeps the web resilient and inclusive for all users and creators.

Our aim is clear: sustain reliable routing, access to open tools, and responsive support for developers, researchers, educators, and volunteers who rely on a healthy digital commons. The fund treats every donation as seed for a more robust, transparent, and interconnected web, where innovation thrives without gatekeeping or unnecessary fragmentation. The Public Web Infrastructure Fund stands for shared responsibility, collaborative governance, and long-term accessibility.

Why Your Support Matters

In a web ecosystem that often rewards scale over sustainability, this fund helps level the field. The Public Web Infrastructure Fund channels resources toward durable, open infrastructure that anyone can build on or study. Your support enables small teams and community groups to contribute to and benefit from foundational services, from open hosting to community-run tooling that lowers barriers to entry.

With steady backing, we can pursue measurable goals—reducing downtime, speeding feature rollouts, and expanding multilingual and accessible resources. Your involvement creates a visible, lasting impact: more opportunities for collaboration, better documentation, and stronger protections for user privacy and data sovereignty. It is a shared commitment to keep the web open, usable, and trustworthy for learners, artists, researchers, and everyone in between.

How Donations Are Used

Donations flow into a transparent funding framework designed to maximize practical outcomes. In broad terms, funds support four pillars: development and maintenance of core open infrastructure, research and education to expand open standards, hosting and bandwidth for community projects, and governance with regular audits and public reporting. The Public Web Infrastructure Fund also prioritizes accessibility enhancements and multilingual outreach to ensure diverse communities can participate meaningfully.

We publish annual and quarterly updates that map receipts to activities and milestones. This approach makes it possible to track uptime improvements, new tooling, and community-led initiatives. A portion of resources is reserved for security reviews and resilience planning, ensuring that open infrastructure remains robust under evolving threats and usage patterns. The fund’s open metrics and governance documents provide a clear, accountable pathway from donation to impact.

Community Voices

People who rely on open web infrastructure describe how this work expands opportunities and collaboration. A long-time contributor notes that steady support for open infrastructure enables smaller labs and libraries to participate in important projects without sacrificing accessibility. Another participant highlights the inclusive culture that develops when diverse voices shape technical decisions. These perspectives reflect a shared conviction: the web’s essential services belong to communities, not to a select few.

“Public, open, and collaborative—that is how we build a web that serves everyone. This fund makes that possible while inviting new contributors.”

Transparency And Trust

Integrity guides every step of the effort. The Public Web Infrastructure Fund maintains a public ledger of grants, a transparent funding rubric, and regular reports that connect investments with outcomes. Governance processes are designed to be accessible to supporters through community forums, open roadmaps, and periodic reviews. We publish service level commitments, security audits, and improvement plans so you can see the practical path from donation to impact. This level of openness helps sustain confidence and long-term participation.

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