Open Collective Update - August 2023
It’s been a busy few months so far at Open Collective. Get the latest updates from our collectives and SCN is hiring!
Collectives share their Progress
It’s always exciting to hear about everything that collectives have achieved with the help of Open Collective and our network of fiscal hosts.
Last month, we got an update on the collectives hosted by Open Collective Foundation, who have been doing amazing things around the world. These include:
- Social Health Labs awarding their first $1,000 micro grant to an inspiring community project
- Twisted Field Research Collective developed an open-source robot for farming
- South Philadelphia Community Fridge raising nearly $4,000 to fund food provision and other outreach
You can find the full list of collective updates here.
We’re always interested in hearing about your projects and success, so if you’ve got an exciting update, please let us know.
The Social Change Nest is Hiring!
The Social Change Nest our largest UK Fiscal Host on Open Collective is hiring. Their small team is growing - Get involved in creating social impact using social innovation, peer networks, community organizing, collaboration and systemic and organizational change approaches.
They are looking for two new amazing people who are passionate about social change and finance.
News and Inspiration
A few things we’re excited about this month…
🎏 The Digital Infrastructure Insights Fund (D//F) is launching a 2023 Request for Proposals. Sustaining a platform for researchers and practitioners, fostering a deeper understanding of how open digital infrastructure is built, deployed and maintained. The submission deadline for proposals is October 1st.
🇺🇦 The Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online (SUCH) initiative was set up in March 2022 to protect digitized content and materials from attacks and power outages. It attracted around 1,000 volunteers in its first week and had archived over 50TB of material by June. Find out more about their progress.
🪟 10 Funding Opportunities For Your Open Source Project - This reference guide includes 24 real examples to help you get the community to fund your open-source project.
🤝🏽 It’s been an eventful decade for Pasquines, which was set up in June 2013 to strengthen the relationship between Puerto Rico and the United States. The collective shares more about its achievements and hopes for the future in this reflective post.
🖼️ Open Source Maintainers are exploring the people, practices, and constraints facing the world’s most critical open source software projects
🌞 Climate for All is working on developing innovative games to drive education on sustainability. This groundbreaking project aims to harnesses the power of educational games to foster sustainability and climate action skills in young adults and youth workers. If you’re keen to help them succeed, take a closer look at their website and give if you can.
Events
Post your #events in our Discord and we’ll promote them here...
🦓 25th - 26th August - Regens Unite London - A gathering in East London for technologists, healers, finance workers, charities, environmentalists and creatives to establish new relationships, and unite.
🦔 1st September - OCF Monthly Community Forum
🐢 4th September - September Welcome Party (for OCF Collectives only)
🪲 15th - 16th September - Regens Unite Berlin - Regenerative thinkers and doers in DAOs, ReFi, DeSci, Platform Coops, Purpose Orgs, Climate Activism, and Art to co-create & share projects, knowledge, food, kindness and hope.
🐸 21st September - Open Source Collective Community Call
Posts that make us proud
Monthly Leaderboard
Top Contributors
By Contribution this month (USD)
Omidyar Network $600,000
Automattic Inc $400,000
Georgetown University $278,000
Microsoft Edge $250,000
Amateur Radio Dig Comms $150,000
Metagovernance Project $127,500
Kolibri Foundation $100,000
Michael Reese Health Trust $100,000
Missouri Found. for Health $89,000
Goldman Sachs Foundation $50,000
Top Collectives
By Contribution this month (USD)
The Tech We Want $600,000
Manifest Grants $400,000
OpenMined $328,000
Open Web Docs $251,273
Sueños Sin Fronteras $117,646
By Contributors this month
Builders Fund $250,000
COALESCENCE $5,072
Elevated Minds $5,072
Zenoch Community Hub $5,072
Tag la Vérité $2,885
Top New Collectives
By Contributions (USD)
Logseq 427
AnkiDroid 301
By Contributors
The Odin Project 155
Bldrweb 13
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