diff --git a/conservancy/views.py b/conservancy/views.py
index 2913f2b1..bcdd2a78 100644
--- a/conservancy/views.py
+++ b/conservancy/views.py
@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ from django.template.response import TemplateResponse
 
 from .local_context_processors import fundgoal_lookup
 
+# This component doesn't actually have anything to do with Django's
+# "staticfiles" app. It's only that its templates happen to be located in the
+# STATIC_ROOT directory. They probably shouldn't be there.
 STATIC_ROOT = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__))
 FILESYSTEM_ENCODING = 'utf-8'
 
@@ -33,7 +36,7 @@ def index(request, *args, **kwargs):
     path = request.path.lstrip('/')
     if path.endswith('/'):
         path += 'index.html'
-    fullpath = os.path.join(STATIC_ROOT, path)
+    fullpath = os.path.join(STATIC_ROOT, 'static', path)
     try:
         # Junk URLs in production (Python 3.5) are causing UnicodeEncodeErrors
         # here. Can't reproduce in development in Python 3.9 - only Python 2.7.