case studies - Open Collective

Chrome’s Framework for Open Source Investment

This year, Chrome’s has committed over $200K in their Web Framework & Tools Performance Fund to support open source tooling. Chrome understands that collaboration with open source paves the road to a better web.

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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.

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Updates We Love: December 2020

Dec 2020 Updates from our hosted initiatives

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

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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

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Celebrating Black Excellence in Tech: Juneteenth Conference & a Tech Apprenticeship Pipeline

Juneteenth Conference & a Tech Apprenticeship Pipeline

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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.

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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.

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"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.

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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!

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How funding open source gives Vercel access to world-class talent

Interview with Vercel founder Guillermo Rauch and Head of Growth Sarup Banskota.

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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.

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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.