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2022 in Review: Open Collective Foundation

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

How OCF Developed a New Compensation Model (part 2)

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

How the team sets its own salaries at OCF (part 1)

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

The Era of Mastodon

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

OCF Updates We Love — Summer 2022

OCF Updates We Love — Summer 2022

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

The Week: A New Playbook for Climate Mobilization

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 of people

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

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

OCF Strategic Plan Check-in

OCF Strategic Plan Check-in

Six months later, here's what we've achieved and learned. After clarifying our mission & values [https://docs.opencollective.foundation/about/mission-and-values] and growing our team [https://docs.opencollective.foundation/about/team], Open Collective Foundation committed to a strategy based on solidarity as our guiding principle [https://blog.opencollective.com/solidarity-as-our-guiding-principle/], and

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

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!

Open Collective Foundation: 2021 in Review

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—

Pathways for Open Collective’s “Exit to Community”

Pathways for Open Collective’s “Exit to Community”

(Stay up to date on our journey here [http://opencollective.com/e2c].) How might we free Open Collective for the commons? Part 2 of … The not-so-secret dream of our strange beast called Open Collective is to be infrastructure for the commons, owned by our community [http://opencollective.com/e2c], which

News for Fiscal Hosts

News for Fiscal Hosts

Fiscal Hosts [https://opencollective.com/hosts] are the entities that hold funds for Collectives behind the scenes—the platform power users! We've got some news and features to share with you. Exit to Community We have announced our plans to transition ownership and governance of the Open Collective platform to