Outreachy seeks mentors
Outreachy is seeking open source communities to mentor Outreachy interns in the June 2025 cohort.
We encourage any open source community to apply to mentor Outreachy interns.
Outreachy does not require your community to provide internship funding. However, donations to Outreachy have decreased over the last few years, and we currently have a very limited budget to fund internships each cohort.
We often find that FOSS communities know best what organizations or companies might have funding available. Therefore, we need your help finding additional Outreachy sponsors.
We cannot assure funding for your interns, but we will try. Your help identifying fundraising leads will be a major factor in the success of this Outreachy internship cohort.
Donation amounts
In order to sustain our program, Outreachy needs to receive donations of at least $8,000 to $10,000 USD per intern we accept. This breaks down to:
$7,000 USD donation towards the Outreachy internship stipend
$1,000 to $3,000 USD donation towards the Outreachy program activities fund, which covers some of the basic costs of running the Outreachy program, and without which we couldn’t run the internship program at all.
Donations to the Outreachy program are vital to support interns
Outreachy is a labor intensive program. Outreachy organizers are highly involved with interns. Outreachy organizers work closely with your community’s mentors to empower your interns to pursue a future in FOSS. The Outreachy organizers share tips for your interns on how to attend FOSS conferences, encourage your interns to explore careers or academic research in open source, and help them expand their network of open source contracts.
Outreachy’s deep support of interns, along with your mentoring partnership, means 80% of past Outreachy interns continue to contribute to open source after their internship.
Outreachy organizers’ deep support of interns would not be possible without funding for Outreachy’s core program activities. We highly encourage organizations to donate additional funds to Outreachy program activities because additional donations helps us retain Outreachy interns in the open source community.
We need fundraising collaboration with FOSS communities
We need your community’s help to identify and convince organizations to provide donations to help Outreachy sustain our deep support of interns, and retain their amazing talent in our open source community. Please don’t think about this as just finding funding for your interns for this internship cohort. This is about sustaining our program, and we ask for your help with promotion and fundraising leads.
Important dates
January 29 at 3pm UTC – Live Q&A for FOSS communities interested in mentoring Outreachy interns
February 5 at 3pm UTC – Live Q&A for people interested in becoming an Outreachy mentor
Feb. 26, 2025 at 4pm UTC – deadline for FOSS communities to sign up to participate as a mentoring organization
March 7, 2025 at 4pm UTC – deadline for mentors to submit project descriptions
Link: https://www.outreachy.org/blog/2025-01-20/june-2025-call-for-mentoring-organizations/
Link 2: https://www.outreachy.org/blog/2025-01-27/june-2025-initial-applications-open/
