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OCF Updates We Love — Spring 2023

OCF Updates We Love — Spring 2023

Inspirational Updates from Collectives hosted by Open Collective Foundation

Open Collective Update - March/April 2023

Open Collective Update - March/April 2023

Discover the latest news and features we're proud of! Creating a Healthier Ecosystem Open Source Collective was created to help build a healthier and more sustainable ecosystem for open source creators. And a big part of that is personal health. Many open source projects that we love and rely on

Inspiration behind the development of the Kola Nut Collaborative

Inspiration behind the development of the Kola Nut Collaborative

This interview with OCF Program Director was created by Artist-Organizer Fellow Ebony Gustave with Mike Strode, a Program Director at Open Collective Foundation. The Kola Nut Collaborative is a mutual support network created by Mike Strode to engage people in reciprocal exchange of services, skills, and goods through a time

OC Foundation Presents: Solidarity School

OC Foundation Presents: Solidarity School

OC Foundation offers nonprofit status + fundraising + money management software to aligned groups. We are part of an international network of nonprofits and other fiscal sponsors that use the same open source software to create efficiencies with money. We do the paperwork so that unincorporated groups, or Collectives, can focus on

2022 in Review: Open Collective Foundation

2022 in Review: Open Collective Foundation

What an incredible year 2022 was for Open Collective Foundation—an indication of the surge of energy, ideas, and resources flowing into solidarity movements. We are humbled and happy to provide a legal and financial toolbox the groups who make up these movements need to do their important and diverse

Open Collective Inc. Donates $10k to Iron Path Farms

Open Collective Inc. Donates $10k to Iron Path Farms

Why did Open Collective Inc. donate 10k to Iron Path Farms, a 2Spirit Haudenosaunee-led Food Sovereignty Project? We are an unconventional tech company striving to usher in a world where collectivity, transparency, and good livelihoods are the norm. We work to be an example of the world we want to

Open Collective Inc - Investor Update

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Open Collective Inc - Investor Update

This is our 2022 update for our Investors by our CEO, Pia Mancini. Another year went by, one marked by many challenges and great satisfactions. One of them being that Argentina won the world cup after 34 years! I learnt from this team that suffering hard is unavoidable but that

Open Source Collective Updates and new collectives we love - December Edition ❤️

Open Source Collective Updates and new collectives we love - December Edition ❤️

Thank you for joining Open Source Collective and sharing the awesome work that your collectives are doing to sustain the open source ecosystem 👾

OCF Updates We Love — Autumn/Winter 2022

OCF Updates We Love — Autumn/Winter 2022

Welcome in the new year with these inspirational updates from initiatives hosted by Open Collective Foundation!

EOY Solidarity: find grassroots groups to receive your tax-deductible donations in 2022

EOY Solidarity: find grassroots groups to receive your tax-deductible donations in 2022

We just launched a Discovery Tool to support Grassroots giving. You have until midnight on December 31st to make a donation that is tax-deductible for 2022.

Imagining & Enacting the Worlds We Want: Unrestricted Support for OCF Artist-Organizers

Imagining & Enacting the Worlds We Want: Unrestricted Support for OCF Artist-Organizers

Open Collective Foundation reflects back on a pilot program that supported four Artist-Organizer Fellows in 2022: Ebony Gustave, Niki Franco, Nia, and Robin Crane.

OC Inc. Strategy 2023-2024: Mature Platform + Connected Teams = Strong Foundations

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OC Inc. Strategy 2023-2024: Mature Platform + Connected Teams = Strong Foundations

The next two years are about maturing the OC Inc. platform and connecting our teams so that we can scale our impact in the years to come.

Open Collective Ecosystem New Hires!

Open Collective Ecosystem New Hires!

We're excited to introduce some new additions to the Open Collective Team. We’re grateful to be welcoming these talented individuals. They all hold a unique set of skills and perspectives we know will be fundamental to the future of Open Collective.

How OCF Developed a New Compensation Model (part 2)

How OCF Developed a New Compensation Model (part 2)

Open Collective Foundation is one of many Solidarity Economy organizations exploring collective pay-setting. We are sharing the behind the scenes details of how we came up the new collectively-created compensation model that we announced in part one. Open Collective Foundation serves a community of over 400 Collectives that each have

How the team sets its own salaries at OCF (part 1)

How the team sets its own salaries at OCF (part 1)

Distributed leadership aligns with our guiding principle of solidarity at Open Collective Foundation, and it’s an area we’ve been intentionally developing. In mid-2022, we started rethinking how we pay our core team. We asked ourselves: how might our salaries be determined equitably and collectively? Inspired by Worker Self-Directed

The Era of Mastodon

The Era of Mastodon

How communities are decentralizing social networking, no billionaires required. With the mass exodus of Twitter users following Elon Musk’s takeover, alternative platforms are gaining popularity among these ‘digital refugees’. The leading choice for many is Mastodon, free and open-source self-hosted social networking. Why is it growing so fast, and

Navigating Failure with the Crowd as your Compass

Navigating Failure with the Crowd as your Compass

Perhaps you are in some way failing to meet the mission of your collective whether that is building capacity, raising funds, transitioning leadership, or anything else. Whatever you do to address that momentary failure, do not fail alone.

Open Source Collective Updates and new collectives we love - November Edition ❤️

Open Source Collective Updates and new collectives we love - November Edition ❤️

Thank you for joining Open Source Collective and sharing the awesome work that your collectives are doing to sustain the open source ecosystem 👾

Kia Kotahi Ako: Collaborating for Impact

Kia Kotahi Ako: Collaborating for Impact

Established in 2021, Kia Kotahi Ako (Learning As One) is activating education initiatives in Aoteroa New Zealand, to have the biggest impact for Papatūānuku (mother earth). Motivated by the climate crisis and an inequitable education system, Kia Kotahi Ako is an ambitious collaboration to tackle these challenges together. Edmund Hillary

Sustainable Progress and Equality Collective: SPEC

Sustainable Progress and Equality Collective: SPEC

Joe Torreggiani, a software engineer and social activist, has always been concerned about making the world a better place. With the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, he observed the community around him more closely and moved toward action to mitigate the social unrest and tension rising in society. Joe connected

Open Source Collective Updates we love - October Edition ❤️

Open Source Collective Updates we love - October Edition ❤️

Thank you for sharing the awesome work that your collectives are doing to sustain the open source ecosystem 👾

Homeschooling with Modulo

Homeschooling with Modulo

Reinventing education, Empowering Parents, Inspiring Kids Manisha Snoyer is a passionate teacher with 15 years of experience with kids of different talents, psychological types, and walks of life. This "teacherpreneur” founded Modulo—a tool that accelerates learning through individualized instruction and a flexible school schedule. Manisha debunks myths about homeschooling