The Carpentries is a fiscally sponsored project of Community Initiatives and encompasses the lesson programs Software Carpentry, Data Carpentry, and Library Carpentry. The Carpentries operates globally to bring researchers the skills they need to transform data into knowledge. Our lesson materials are openly available and collaboratively developed by a community dedicated to increasing the accessibility of these skills and the diversity of people who use them. We develop and maintain lessons in foundational computation and data science skills and offer pedagogical training to Instructors, empowering positive and effective peer-to-peer instruction. A truly amazing community has grown around our mission, and together, we have trained over 4,200 Instructors and offered over 4,000 workshops in 65 countries on all 7 continents.

YOUR SUPPORT:

We work daily to bring training to more people, expand our resources, support our community, and maintain the quality and relevance of our material. We are depending on financial support from individuals and organisations to continue to provide these resources and expand our impact. We welcome the support you can give once, weekly, or monthly. 

$10 helps run a Community Discussion
$20 helps collect learner feedback to improve our material
$50 helps keep a lesson online
$100 helps mentor a new instructor in our community
$500 helps maintain our lessons and keep them up to date
$1,000 helps support one instructor through our free open training program

OUR MISSION:

The Carpentries builds global capacity in essential data and computational skills for conducting efficient, open, and reproducible research. We train and foster an active, inclusive, diverse community of learners and instructors that promotes and models the importance of software and data in research. We collaboratively develop openly available lessons and deliver these lessons using evidence-based teaching practices. We focus on lots of people conducting and supporting research.