Stewarding the React Foundation

The newly formed React Foundation exists to keep React healthy for the next decade. As Executive Director, I’ve focused on three loops.

1. Governance with accountability. The foundation codifies how decisions move from proposal to reality. Initiatives such as RIS scoring and the Community of Interested Stakeholders (CoIS) create traceability between community needs and investment.
2. Funding that reflects reality. World-class tooling and events are not free. We’re piloting blended models that align partner contributions with the outcomes they want—reliability, experimentation, and education.
3. Global community engagement. Meetups, contributor cohorts, and shared documentation shrink the space between the maintainers and the millions of builders who rely on React daily.

Sustainability happens when these loops reinforce one another. That’s the work ahead.