The Quest for Home: Transforming from Grant-funded Project to Sustainable Operation
Grant-funded initiatives eventually need a permanent home; here are some lessons learned from Educopia’s Katherine Skinner and Christina Drummond.
Christina Drummond has built a career helping efforts scale their operational capacity. In addition to advising on the sunsetting of the Digital Preservation Network (DPN), and acting as lead facilitator for the It Takes a Village: Open Source Software Models of Collaboration & Sustainability project, she previously served as Director of Strategic Initiatives for Educopia from 2015-2017, and currently serves as the founding Executive Director of the OA Book Data Trust, a global effort to establish trusted mechanisms that facilitate the ethical, direct data exchange, aggregation and benchmarking of open and proprietary book usage data.
Grant-funded initiatives eventually need a permanent home; here are some lessons learned from Educopia’s Katherine Skinner and Christina Drummond.