Gregory's Server@nzakas My experience trying to get my organisation to set up a donation for an open source project... won't work. Management doesn't understand donations.
How about offering a license? It can be a license for something insanely silly, say the Enterprise Documentation Addendum.
Devs understand open source and they can go, hey, we use this and now we need this license.
A license is something Management and Finance are accustomed to and a proposal/request won't hit total blank stares there.
@fschaap @nzakas It depends on how much your finance/procurement team knows about mission critical software.
As soon as they hear it's an open source package, they interpret that as free, and maintained by volunteers.
In corporate America there is no concept of being seen as supporting things that are available to everyone, but they fall all over themselves to sponsor 5k runs and naming sports venues, because that comes out of the marketing budget.
Maybe it's time to stop updating packages ..