Category: Donations

  • Give Back to Open Source this Giving Tuesday

    Giving Tuesday is a global, non-profit movement that encourages people, organizations, and companies around the world to give, collaborate and celebrate generosity. Hosted on the first Tuesday following Thanksgiving in the United States, this year the charitable giving event will be taking place on November 30, 2021. With Giving Tuesday around the corner, many in…

  • The WordPress Foundation publishes its 2020 financials

    We are glad to announce that WordPress Foundation has published its financials for the year 2020. In 2020, the WordPress Foundation and its subsidiary B-Corp (WordPress Community Support, PBC) provided support and guidance for a total of 33 WordCamps and hundreds of Meetup groups, organized by volunteers in communities all over the world. WordPress Foundation’s total revenue in…

  • WordPress Foundation Donates to Black Girls Code and Internet Archive

    In January 2017 we committed to donating towards the work of Black Girls Code and Internet Archive. We have done that each year since, and 2019 was no exception: at the end of the year, we donated $15,000 to each organization. We chose these organizations because they align well with the vision of the WordPress…

  • WordPress Foundation: An End-of-Year Snapshot

    Howdy! The WordPress Foundation filed taxes for 2012 recently, and we’d like to talk about how we pursued the Foundation’s charter to educate the public about WordPress and supported opportunities for people to get involved in web publishing and open source projects across the globe. In 2012, the WordPress Foundation provided support and guidance for a…

  • WordPress Trademark in the House

    We are pleased to announce that Automattic has made a remarkable and generous donation by transferring ownership of the WordPress trademark to the WordPress Foundation. We’re honored to accept this donation, and to preserve and protect the trademark in the years ahead as a keystone part of the Foundation’s mission to ensure that WordPress is…

  • Our First Donation

    Exciting news: the first official donation to the WordPress Foundation has arrived! WordCamp NYC found themselves with a budget surplus after the November 2009 event, and decided that the best way to put the money back into the community would be a donation to the new Foundation. Their donation of $28,069.25 kicks things off with…