Shuttleworth Foundation

{{Short description|South African organization promoting social change}}

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|name=Shuttleworth Foundation

|founded_date=2001{{cite web|url=http://www.shuttleworthfoundation.org/about-us/|title=The Shuttleworth Foundation Home|website=www.shuttleworthfoundation.org}}

|founder=Mark Shuttleworth

|location=Durbanville, South Africa

|logo=File:Shuttleworth.svg

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|key_people=Mark Shuttleworth, founder
Helen Turvey, CEO

|area_served=Global

|focus=Open source, open content, open educational resources

|method=Fellowships

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|homepage= {{URL|shuttleworthfoundation.org}}

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The Shuttleworth Foundation was established in January 2001 by South African entrepreneur Mark Shuttleworth as an experiment with the purpose of providing funding for people engaged in social change. While there have been various iterations of the foundation, its structure and how it invests in social innovation, the current model employs a fellowship model where fellows are given funding commensurate with their experience to match a year's salary, allowing them to spend that year developing a particular idea. The Foundation announced that it is shutting itself down "by the beginning of 2024."{{cite web |title=All good things... |url=https://shuttleworthfoundation.org/thinking/2022/07/19/thinking-closing/ |website=Shuttleworth Foundation |access-date=27 April 2023}}

Notable past and present fellows include Marcin Jakubowski (who develops the Open Source Ecology project), Rufus Pollock (co-founder of the Open Knowledge Foundation{{cite web |url=http://okfn.org/members/rgrp/ |title=Rufus Pollock | Extended Profiles | Open Knowledge Foundation |accessdate=2012-12-13 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121219065241/http://okfn.org/members/rgrp/ |archivedate=2012-12-19 }} Retrieved 2012-12-13) and Mark Surman (now Executive Director of Mozilla Foundation.{{cite web|title=Mark Surman|url=https://www.shuttleworthfoundation.org/fellows/mark-surman/|website=www.shuttleworthfoundation.org|date=May 2007 |accessdate=6 January 2018}})