case studies Interview with Aaron Clark: Creating Opportunities for Stability Justice Reskill aims to connect justice-involved people with the access and support they need to create a new path for themselves. Aaron Clark, founder, tells us about his mission to serve these communities.
mutual aid Autumn Update from West Brooklyn Waterfront Mutual Aid We wanted to share this beautiful letter that was sent by one of our hosted mutual aid initiatives. We are so grateful to be able to support and catalyze collectives like West Brooklyn
case studies Amidst the election, a new network map analyzes politicians' tweets This open-source anti-'infodemic' tool can tell you who Trump interacts with and who has influence on politicians online."The 'infodemic' we are experiencing now works in many ways like a pandemic," says SMAT
case studies Celebrating Black Excellence in Tech: Juneteenth Conference & a Tech Apprenticeship Pipeline Juneteenth Conference & a Tech Apprenticeship Pipeline
case studies A New Foundation to Support Black Parent Entrepreneurs We spoke with James Oliver, Jr. about his experience being a parent, an entrepreneur, and about his new foundation to support the community of Black ParentPreneurs.
case studies Play By the Rules, or Create New Ones We spoke with Nathan Schneider of Community Rule about the importance of more accessible governance practices within online communities.
case studies "Solidarity Not Charity" in Bushwick, NY We spoke with Kristen Ablamsky and Fernando Ramos, two local organizers of Bushwick Ayuda Mutua about New York’s community engagement and mutual aid in response to the COVID-19 crisis.
News $2m for COVID-19: Stories of Solidarity Over the last few months, we've been privileged to support a massive community response to COVID-19 by 250+ Collectives. We waived our fees for three months so these amazing groups could focus all
Blockchain Zcoin on Open Source Collective A decentralized funding model means they are more free from bias. Zcoin set up an open collective, where a community can support and sustain their work of privacy on the blockchain.
case studies Growing Community One Slice at a Time Over the last couple years, Cloudflare has sponsored over $20,000 of pizza for 80+ tech meetups around the world, reaching over 4500 people. That’s a lot of slices!
case studies How funding open source gives Vercel access to world-class talent Interview with Vercel founder Guillermo Rauch and Head of Growth Sarup Banskota.
case studies Taking on Diversity & Inclusion in the Drupal Community We spoke with Drupal Diversity and Inclusion team leader Tara King about how her team are going beyond the depressing statistics and achieving real change.
case studies Frontend Masters: "We teach open source, we use open source, and we support open source." Frontend Masters regularly appears on our leaderboard for their contributions to the open source ecosystem. They’ve sponsored nearly 40 projects and show no signs of slowing down. I spoke to founder Marc Grabanski to find out why.
case studies Solving open source funding by giving sponsors a seat at the table How creating a Steering Group became the game-changer for Universal Viewer, propelling this long-running project into a whole new phase.
case studies Witchcraft: the magic of math, functional programming, and community Interview with Brooklyn Zelenka, blockchain engineer, functional programming math wizard, community builder, and founder of Fission and…
case studies Enriching commons by practicing with money For the Secure Scuttlebutt community, it involves money but it’s not about money
case studies Samsung Next Stack Zero Grants How we disbursed $480,000 in grants transparently, with minimum hassle
case studies Stay calm and untangle your GitHub notifications Octobox.io: how to tame those garden fairies.
case studies Funding Open Source: How Webpack Reached $400k+/year Webpack’s Sean Larkin on growing the project’s budget with crowdfunding, sponsorships, grants, partnerships… and pure love.
case studies Cycle.js: A Unified Theory of Everything for JavaScript Nick Johnstone on what makes Cycle special, the two-year long ‘weekend project’, great community engagement, and the future of programming.
case studies Social.coop: A Cooperative Decentralized Social Network Social.coop is a cooperatively run instance of Mastodon, a decentralized social network based on open protocols and free, open-source…
case studies Open Source is the Next Mission for These Soldiers Operation Code supports veterans and military spouses entering the tech industry. Interview with co-founder Conrad Hollomon.
