Community Grants Program

In 2022, The Rust Foundation had a budget of $625,000 (generously donated by AWS, Huawei, and Google) to run a grants program for the Rust community. These grants are complementing the existing ecosystem of funding for the Rust community, not replacing it. We announced an initial round of Community Grants in June 2022. Our second round of Project Grant recipients (also funded by our 2022 Community Grants Program supporters) began their work on January 1, 2023. Project Grant recipients and project information for round two can be found here.

If you are interested in making a donation to support the Community Grants Program in 2023, please email us at grants@rustfoundation.org. Donations in any amount are appreciated.

Objectives

If you have any comments about the program, or questions that haven’t been answered after reading these pages, please contact us at grants@rustfoundation.org to let us know.

Principles

The design and implementation of the grants program has been guided by the following principles:

Program Overview

There are four separate strands to the Rust Foundation Community Grants program:

Event Support Grants

Awards ranging from $100 to $500 made to support events (both physical and virtual).

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Rust Foundation Fellowships

Awards made to up to 20 individuals, providing a stipend of $1,000 per month plus a travel and training budget. Applications are now closed, though we intend to open a new application round later this year. The Rust Foundation is currently fundraising to continue this program.

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Hardship Grants

Awards ranging from $500 to $1,500 made to active maintainers of the Rust Project facing financial hardship.

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Project Grants

Awards made to individuals and groups for discrete pieces of work in the range of $2,500 to $15,000. Applications are now closed, though we intend to open a new application round later this year. The Rust Foundation is currently fundraising to continue this program.

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Eligibility and Selection Process

Information about eligibility and selection processes for the currently-open grants can be found here.

FAQs

Frequently asked questions can be found here.

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