Kuali Partners Programs

The Kuali Partners Program (KPP) is the means for any college, university, commercial, and other not-for-profit organization to get involved in sustaining and evolving the Kuali software and community.

Kuali began in 2004 as a cooperative effort among seven partners and an investment from the Mellon Foundation. It is now making the transition from funding based on members, partners, and foundations to a self-sustaining organization overseeing several projects and funded entirely by its membership.

KPP membership dues will pay for staff to perform Quality Assurance (QA) work, release engineering, packaging, documentation, and other work to coordinate the timely enhancement and release of quality software and other services valuable to the members.

The software of Kuali projects is made available under the Educational Community License and is available to anyone for any use or modification without fee. Thus, use of the software is not in any way tied to joining KPP. However, KPP will operate as a gated community, membership organization that will provide a number of resources to its members. The value of joining the community makes a very compelling case for institutions to join as described below.

Membership in the Kuali Partners Program is an opportunity for organizations to influence the development direction of the Kuali projects. Kuali Partners have influence on the future of the organization and its projects through voting rights to determine the board of directors and software development priorities.

Colleges and universities differ in their need for, and ability to, contribute to the Kuali community, and no pricing structure could perfectly account for all of these differences. The Kuali Partners Program recognizes these differences and prices membership based on annual budget (all sources) for single campus memberships. Partners’ initial commitment will be for three years.



Annual Budget (all sources) Annual Fee
Over $750M..................................................... $24,500
$500M-750M.................................................... $14,500
$250M-500M.................................................... $ 9,500
Less than $250M.............................................. $ 4,500

Foundations...................................................... $14,500
Corporations..................................................... $20,000

In addition, Partners are also encouraged to tender appropriate staff members to the Kuali Foundation for specific periods of time. For example, a college or university might assign a staff member to work full time (or half time) under the direction of the Kuali Foundation Board to work on a specific project feature or need. These can include functional, technical, support, or administrative staff. In community-based projects, doing work is a primary path to influence.

Partnership Agreement

Foundation Partners

Commercial Affiliates