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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

Occupy to Operations

Occupy to Operations

How Occupy still resonates a decade later, entrepreneurship for systemic change, rethinking fiscal sponsorship and financial tooling, and discovering yourself through burnout and finding balance.

Early musings on "Exit to Community" for Open Collective

Early musings on "Exit to Community" for Open Collective

How can we future-proof Open Collective Inc. for the thousands of communities around the world that rely on it?

OCF's Strategic Plan: Solidarity in Action

OCF's Strategic Plan: Solidarity in Action

Here's what we're up to—we want your feedback! Not long ago, OCF announced our strategy focused on solidarity [https://blog.opencollective.com/solidarity-as-our-guiding-principle/]. Now we want to share a more concrete plan to put it into action. Here's a rundown of what the OCF team is currently doing, what

Use your Stock for Good

Use your Stock for Good

You can now use your public stock to support Open Source Creators on Open Stocks.