Open Collective Update - July 2022
New Home page ⭐️
The new homepage explains more generally what Open Collective is and our main features. We have showcased the types of communities we serve and a little bit about our team. Browse our range of resources if you want to get to know Open Collective more or are in need of help or support 🌻
We hope this restructuring makes the Open Collective message clearer 🤟🏼 Make sure you explore!
Customizable "Thank you" Emails
You can now add custom text to the automatic email people receive thanking them for their contribution, at the level of a whole Collective and/or a specific Event or Project.
SMAT: Open-source intelligence for investigating war crimes
Social Media Analysis Toolkit (SMAT) facilitates activists, journalists, researchers, and other social good organizations to analyze and visualize misinformation, disinformation, and harmful online trends. Built by Emmi Bevensee - Data scientist and researcher of complexity, hate, the far-right, and disinformation, originally from the United States and now based in New Zealand.
News & Inspiration
🪲 OCF has a new website
🎨 New arts fiscal host based in Israel - Bar-Kayma
🏰 Enable two-factor authentication on your account
🌻 Congratulations Okionu Birth Foundation - One Million Black Women impact grant recipient
🎉 OCF welcomes two new board members
🏙 The Future of Open Source Business model - Podcast with Pia Mancini
👾 OSC Updates we love
Posts that make us proud
"Unincorporated groups are the ones at the frontlines of the change we want to see. We need to find ways to fund them without forcing them to be something they’re not." @piamancini #newfrontiers
— Mandy Van Deven (@mandyvandeven) July 15, 2022
@c_observations Shout out to Alina 🙌 for a great and personal support, helping me on @opencollect
— Shinigami (@Shini_92) June 30, 2022
If support would be like that everywhere, the world would be a much better place 😃
Having to be a legal entity is a barrier for people who are working on new and different ways of working. “We are forcing circles to become triangles.” @piamancini I definitely notice this more & more. The work of Open Collective and @opencollect sounds amazing #NewFrontiers
— Vicki Purewal (@vickipurewal) July 15, 2022
Contribute towards saving Ukraine Cultural Heritage Online 🌻 https://t.co/fEYrvMp27k https://t.co/4Yt2M6lyv0
— Open Collective (@opencollect) July 19, 2022
Monthly Leaderboard
Top Contributors
Mellon Foundation $150,000
Fractured Atlas $140,000
Facebook Open Source $125,000
Combined Jewish Philanthropies $100,000
The Shapiro Foundation $100,000
Pandas $78,041.92
P Welfare Foundation $75,000
Lankelly Chase $58,054
Fidelity Charitable $56,000
JP Morgan Charitable $50,000
Top Collectives
By contributions this month (USD)
1K Project $553,485
Art.coop $150,251
Open Web Docs $126,295
JULIAN $85,100
The Hologram $81,988
By contributors this month
Forest Justice Defense Fund 508
Dark Reader 188
Loqseq 108
Top New Collectives
By contributions (USD)
STL Mutual Aid $42,739
Openscapes $18,170
Get to College Project $15,750
Sunflower Collective $15,420
Ptown Radio CIC $6,303
By contributors
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💙 The Open Collective Team