Issuing requests for proposals (RFPs) can be a highly efficient way for us to gain exposure to numerous organizations and ideas around a specific grantmaking thesis, outcome area, or learning question.
Periodically, GitLab Foundation will announce an open solicitation for grant proposals related to a specific thesis or problem statement. Other than specific requests for proposals, the GitLab Foundation will not accept unsolicited proposals.
RFP Process
Powering Economic Opportunity Fund
Learn more about this opportunity (only available to current grantees)
In July of 2023, we issued a new RFP focused on supporting Artificial Intelligence (AI) that positively impacted economic opportunity.
In 2024, as part of our Emerging Talent Demand portfolio, the GitLab Foundation is launched a $3M nationwide Green Jobs for Economic Opportunity Fund to support organizations and multisectoral partnerships in exploring or developing early-stage initiatives to improve economic mobility. Learn more.
The GitLab Foundation believes that an important role of philanthropy is to make bets on transformative, catalytic and sometimes high-risk opportunities for outsized impact, particularly where other stakeholders (e.g., governments, private sector investors) are disincentivized to invest.
To advance this, we have adopted a risk-tolerant approach, believing that the long-term upsides of risk will be additive across a portfolio of investments. Even while we seek outsized returns, we are developing processes to assess, model, mitigate, and carefully manage risk across our portfolio.
Our Philosophy on Risk: Accept Risk, Seek Outsized Returns