Welcome in the new year with these inspirational updates from initiatives hosted byOpen Collective Foundation:

🌟Community Kitchen MPLShosted theirannual community night including a baked potato bar, homemade lemonade and potted plants to adopt.

🌟New Mexico Health Equity Partnershipreleased theirnewsletter!

🌟Rogers Park Free Storeopened a new distribution space in Chicago! Congratulations!

🌟Chicagoland Food Sovereignty Coalitionis celebrating two years, congratulations!Read here to find out what's next for them.

🌟The Xylomstudents reported on Nepal's Pyramid International Laboratory/ Observatory, the world's highest laboratory until it was closed in 2015. Learn more about its tumultuous historyhere in English andhere in Nepali. Also,The Xylomjoined Science Journalism Forum as a media partner and hasposted theirlatest newsletter and new stickers!

🌟Palms Unhoused Mutual Aidreleased an update including news on theircommunity night market and bike repair event.

🌟Carol's Kindnessjoined OCF this year to support their efforts to rescue usable food. At the beginning of this year, they were feeding a few hundred people. By the end of 2022, they are nowfeeding about 1,000 people through 5 organizations!

🌟Sunflower Collectiveposted updates on their incredible efforts to help Ukrainian familiessettle into their new homes.

🌟I 2 Heart Uhosted theirFall Freakout - how fun!

🌟The Future Is Ushosted their 3rd annualBack to School Drive in collaboration with Black Hippie Art. They were able to match their monetary donations to offer many many supplies and resources for artists, students, and families. They also celebrated their5th anniversary with an exhibition of 13 young Philadelphian artists!

🌟Black Banjo Reclamation Projectreleased theirGourd Harvest update. They share about starting their gourd-growing journey in the Spring of 2019 by planting the seeds from the gourds they made banjos with at their very first workshop. Read more about their accomplishments in their year-endwrap-up.

🌟Free Food Collective has commenced a food recovery program. They've diverted over 23,000 pounds of food diverted from landfills, 23,289 pounds and counting! Read more about their effortshere.

🌟The Endurance Scholarshiphosted their first ever in-personevent, a brunch and skate morning, to celebrate their two year anniversary

🌟Black Ideas Collaborativeposted their first-everupdate! Black Ideas Collaborative is a brand new initiative set to launch in 2023 focused on creating a support system and guaranteed income for emerging visionaries in the African Diaspora.

🌟Ward 2 Mutual Aidposted anupdate about their end-of-summer outreach team retreat and their upcoming plans in Washington, DC.

🌟Undoing Our Erasurehas serviced over a dozen youths with free books and materials in their latestupdate! Learn about their mission biohere.

🌟Social Health Labsannounced their micro-grant winners, Fiona and Richard, andHaley! Congratulations.

🌟JeSuisNiiLee Mutual Aid Collective is excited to announce the creation of the Pauli Murray Awards: Black LGBTQ+ 40 Under 40 Honors. The event will take place in New York City on June 21, 2023 as the unofficial kick-off to NYC Pride Weekend 2023. Read more about the naming of the awardshere. They've also hosted their 1st ever Chosen FamilyQueers-Giving event! All the leftover food was donated to an encampment under an overpass off I-20 and to Gateway Center Atlanta, which provides housing for over 250 people experiencing homelessness and housing insecurity.

🌟Lemonaid Athenshosted an art market and dance party in November! Fun!

🌟National Black Lives Matter At Schoolreceived $100k in support to expand community collective power in public education for thriving Black futures! Wow!

🌟The Moving Support Projectis celebrating two years of helping the formerly unhoused in NYC source furniture and moving assistance. In two years of operation, they havehelped 80 movees do 50 moves!

🌟Mutual Aid Booksreleased a fall update, read more about the great work they've been up tohere!

🌟Chaos Computerposted an update summarizing theirlatest activity and sharing the 165 events they've hosted since opening their NY doors in March!

🌟Community Kitchen MPLSvolunteers cooked up dozens of Election Day lasagnas todistribute to the local community - yummy!

🌟South Philadelphia Community Fridgeposted their latestupdate including 120 fridge fills in the month of September alone! They also raised over $9k in the month of October for the South Philadelphia community - congratulations. Read morehere!

🌟Soul Descendants (S.E.E.D.S)introduced their movement and upcoming mutual aid event - learn more about Soul Descendentshere and their year-end updatehere.

🌟National Shattering Silence Coalitionscreened a showing of 'Still Here'.Learn more about their efforts toward suicide prevention and watch the short film.

🌟Circle City Mutual Aidreleased theirnewsletter!

🌟The Living Pantryfall update includes a fun pet-portrait event to raise funds.

🌟South Bay Mutual Aid and Care Clubare doing amazing work with their community and unhoused neighbors. Every Sunday, their community organizers gather to serve a community of at least 120 unhoused people (and their pets!) in the South Bay area. Learn more about their amazing effortshere.

🌟OutKast People Nationposted an update about stipends for some incarcerated LGBT+ members of society. Read all about their latest work (+ a poem!)here in addition to their Decemberupdate.

🌟LA Neighbors for Neighborsposted a great in-depth 'virtual tour' of their Resource Center for the public to learn more about what they provide to the community! To attend the tourclick here.

🌟Love All x Chicagocelebrated their first food distribution! Read all about ithere.

🌟The Womanist Working Collectiveposted an important Giving Tuesdayreminder to the community and provided a beautiful calendar graphic for their goals.

🌟Collective Diasporalaunched their first session of "Black Co-ops for Change" profiling the incredible work of our member, the Cross Atlantic Chocolate Collective. Learn about the serieshere.

🌟ParentPreneur Foundationshared some of their progress and thoughts on Giving Tuesday.

🌟Love Wins Food Pantryshared about their incredible year of giving; Since January 2022, they have supported 11,510 households across New York City. Learn more about what they do at thislink.

🌟Bushwick Ayuda Mutuaexpressed gratitude for the community in their latestupdate. They purchase supplies for 250 households twice a month! Amazing!

🌟Evanston Fight for Black Livesgave an update on the Evanston Community Fridges' work and impact this year. Read morehere.

🌟Tenants United of South Chicagoposted an update about their activity this year and how you canget involved!

🌟Jawns.Clubtalked about their goals for their Philadelphia-centric Mastodon server in 2023, you can read themhere!

🌟Cleveland, TN Community Resourcesposted a reflection of 2022, read morehere. In 2023 they hope to open their first community fridge - good luck!

🌟buildJUSTLYshared anupdate about their incredible year and hard work connecting underrepresented communities!

🌟Neighborocracy DFWdiscussed the fun they've had in their first year, and their plans to build inclusive Neighborhood Children's Parliaments, spaces of child-led self-governance,in the new year.

🌟Concerts for Indigent Defensepublished an exciting end-of-year update about their work with local defender offices and other justice advocates to catalyze improvements in justice for the upcoming 60th anniversary of Gideon v. Wainwright. You can read all about their 2022here.

🌟Friends of the Howard Human and Civil Rights Law Reviewposted their latest newsletter. Read ithere.

🌟Worried About Renthave had a year of building tenant power discussed in theirupdate!

🌟Beacon Community Networkposted an update about their progress in building out their community of collaborators and their suite of digital services.

🌟GeekBeacon Foundationshared anupdate about the challenges they've overcome and prepping for 2023's event.

🌟OpenPrivacyTechhas joined OCF andshared their goals for 2023!

🌟CHAOSS Africashared news of their efforts to discover the unique challenges that African Open Source communities face and to develop initiatives to solve those unique challenges. Read about their first six months as a collectivehere.

🌟The Love Fridgereflected on 2022 when they launched their first solar community fridge! Read all about their tremendous effortshere.

We hope 2023 brings lots of growth and success tothe collectives, and we thank you for working with Open Collective Foundation.

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