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Open Collective Update - July 2024

Join our Discord and get involved in our redesigning our crowdfunding expereince. Plus News, Events and more

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Open Collective Update - October 2023

In this month’s newsletter, we’re excited to tell you about a couple of new updates to the platform, as well as news from collectives and hosts around the world. Introducing Preview Features We’ve introduced a Preview Features option that allows you to test out selected upcoming features

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Open Collective Update - May 2023

As we head into June, we’re looking forward to some great opportunities to spread the word about the work we’re doing, including a couple of conferences in Europe. Join Our Team at OC We’re currently looking for a Customer Support Representative to be part of our team

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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

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Open Collective Update -Jan/Feb - 2023

Discover the latest news and features we're proud of!

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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

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Open Collective Update - December 2022

Discover the latest news and features we're proud of!

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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

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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

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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

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Open Collective Update - September 2022

Discover the latest news and features we're proud of! Upgrade your budget with our new visualisation feature! 💰 Transform your budget and gain a deeper insight into your financial well-being 📈 Our new budget visualisation enables a more accessible exploration of your data through graphs and categories. This feature pulls

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Open Collective Update - August 2022

Discover the latest News and Features we're proud of! Projects Projects are a lightweight way for collectives to manage budgets for initiatives independent of their parent collectives. Use a Project if you would like to collect funds, allocate part of your budget or track the spending of a

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OCF Updates We Love — Summer 2022

Check out these inspirational updates from initiatives hosted by Open Collective Foundation - Summer 2022 Edition

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The Week: A New Playbook for Climate Mobilization

The Week is an incredible initiative creating a new, powerful approach to effect the social change we need to affect climate change. They're looking to hire 3 new team members. Could it be you? The reality is clear: we need mass mobilization to solve the climate crisis. Millions

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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

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Open Collective Foundation Welcomes Angie Kim and Hafidha Acuay to Board of Directors!

New York, NY, July 7, 2022 — Open Collective Foundation, a fiscal sponsor supporting the Solidarity Economy movement with a community-led technology platform —  announces the election of two new members to its Board of Directors: Angie Kim and Hafidha Acuay. “We are thrilled to work with Angie Kim, leader of a

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Open Collective Update - June 2022

New Navigation Bar Our website has had a revamp, welcome to our new Navigation Bar! 🤟🏼 Explore some of our new pages providing solutions for Sponsors and Fiscal Hosts. Deep dive into how our Product works, get the latest news from our blog or learn all about our mission to exit

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Open Collective Update - May 2022

5.4M dollars raised, direct relief for 5000+ families 1K Project is a distributed peer-to-peer support network that empowers sponsors anywhere in the world to send $1,000 directly to the bank account of a Ukrainian family (whether still in the country or as refugees). 1K Project partnered with Open

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Open Collective Update - April 2022

1k Project The 1k Project is a volunteer-based effort to directly connect sponsors in the USA and around the world to help Ukrainian families who have been impacted by the senseless and inhumane war 🇺🇦 We have been overwhelmed with how much support has been flooding in. 1k Project has raised

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OCF Strategic Plan Check-in

Six months later, here's what we've achieved and learned. After clarifying our mission & values and growing our team, Open Collective Foundation committed to a strategy based on solidarity as our guiding principle, and published a strategic plan. Now, we're excited to share this

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Open Collective Update - March 2022

Solidarity with Ukraine As we watch the Ukrainian resistance to invasion by Russian forces we are doing all we can to continue to support the individuals and communities that are suffering on both sides of the border. As a platform for people to support one another, it is devastating to

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Open Collective Update - February 2022

We are Hiring! 🌎 We are looking for a Senior Product Manager and a Senior Software Engineer. Are you excited about creating a world in which it is as rewarding and financially secure to build and maintain software for the commons as it is for the corporation? Fully remote, fully open-source,

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OCF Announces Artist-Organizer Fellows and new hire: Communications Organizer

At Open Collective Foundation, solidarity is our guiding principle. We have taken the last year to begin weaving a mycelial web of relationships to intentionally connect the collectives we host—mutual aid, open source, climate justice, and more—to the broader Solidarity Economy movement. Why? Because, we are stronger together!

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Open Collective Foundation: 2021 in Review

In 2021, over 13,100 unique donors financially contributed to hundreds of initiatives hosted by OCF, from mutual aid to climate action to tech for good. We are very proud of the amazing things our community has accomplished! The real story is all of your stories. OCF Updates We Love—

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Open Collective Update - January 2022

2021 Was Quite a Year Open Collective continues to grow at an amazing rate. In 2021, 59,000 unique contributors gave ~$25m to the 12,000+ Collectives on the platform. Each Collective represents a community doing inspiring work in the world, and each contribution represents support and financial power. This