W3C Sponsorships Program

Your sponsorship directly contributes to making the Web work, for everyone: a Web that reflects the principles of accessibility, internationalization, privacy and security which guide our technical work and community engagement.

The contributions from generous supporters, both individuals and organizations, who share our values, make a huge difference to our operations as a public-interest non-profit, and help us to achieve our vision. Your support allows W3C to accelerate delivering open web standards for the benefit of humanity by dedicating more resources to expand our core work.

W3C community engagement opportunities at a global, regional and local level bring sponsors into direct contact with leading Web technology experts from industry, research, government, and the developer community, to help your organization expand its outreach and be recognized in the community. Visibility for your brand will be tailored on marketing applications such as signage, conference and workshops merchandise, etc., as well as being recognized for specific deliverables.

W3C recognizes that giving takes many forms. We welcome inquiries to discuss how our work aligns with the aspirations and objectives described in the giving portfolios of individuals and family offices, philanthropic organizations and foundations, corporate social responsibility programs, government programs and others. W3C welcomes financial contributions of any size to help us carry out these activities. 

We invite interested sponsors to discuss with our Team how to customize their support and outline specific elements they may be interested to support. Concrete examples include acknowledgement for sponsorship at W3C’s annual conference TPAC and W3C workshops (such as food and beverages, Internet connectivity, interpretation, captioning, sign language, merchandise such as t-shirts, bags, etc.) or support for the development of specific publications, tools, training materials, among other possibilities.

We have two main sponsorship opportunities available, and under each one four tiers based on different amounts for members and non-members. You can choose the one that better suits your interests, aspirations and alignment with our work.

Web for All - W3C Principles Champions

You can have an impact on people's daily lives by ensuring the Web is available to people with disabilities, to those with literacy barriers, and to anyone whatever their native tongue. Show your leadership in social responsibility by supporting W3C current programs and proposed initiatives. With your support, W3C can continue to work so that the Web is available to all.

Internationalization

W3C Internationalization activity ensures that W3C's formats and protocols are usable worldwide in all languages and in all writing systems. That requires collaboration of language experts, web site designers, developers, and vendors to ensure a rapid response to the growth of the Web. W3C is actively seeking like-minded sponsors to strengthen the internationalization support and increase resources dedicated to this work. 

Accessibility

The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) ensures that W3C technologies support accessibility; develops accessibility standards and guidelines for web content, browsers, multimedia players, authoring tools, and dynamic web content; develops resources for evaluation and repair of Web sites, as well as for education and outreach. It enables partnering of industry, disability communities, accessibility research, government, and others interested in improving accessibility of the Web. W3C is actively seeking like-minded sponsors to strengthen WAI and increase resources dedicated to this work. 

Privacy

W3C’s work on privacy shapes the privacy-preserving Web by developing privacy standards, reviews the privacy of web standards and guides Web developers to design and develop in a way that incorporates privacy by design. W3C is actively seeking like-minded sponsors to strengthen our privacy work and increase resources dedicated to this work.

Security

W3C’s work on security has been instrumental in improving Web security through the development of authentication technologies that can replace weak passwords and help mitigate threats from phishing and similar attacks. W3C is actively seeking like-minded sponsors to strengthen our security work and increase resources dedicated to this work.

An indicative distribution of the sponsorship funds is outlined below. Such distribution will allow for work associated with each of our Principles to expand and further develop:

• 60% funds towards support for logistics and operational costs related to the core activities specifically linked to one of the W3C Principles
• 25% funds towards supporting W3C Training associated with with the specific principle supported
• 15% funds towards supporting W3C R&D activities associated with the specific principle supported

Benefits

We also encourage you to explore a donation, and become a Friend of W3C.

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Community Engagement Champion

The Community Engagement Champion will provide additional annual support so that W3C can deliver more engaging community events that are key to strengthen participation and advance technical discussions. Community Engagement activities include W3C’s annual conference TPAC, Advisory Committee meetings, Workshops, as well as Group meetings and industry ecosystem events, or support to Training and R&D activities.

An indicative distribution of the sponsorship funds is outlined below. Such distribution will allow for an enhanced community engagement experience at events, as well as to expand the benefit to those unable to attend events in person:

• 60% funds towards improving experience for participants at W3C community events including all logistics and operational costs
• 25% funds towards supporting W3C Training
• 15% funds towards supporting W3C R&D activities

Benefits

Sponsorship opportunities can also be tailored for specific community events. Please reach out to [email protected] if you are interested.

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