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Welcome in the new year with these inspirational updates from initiatives hosted by Open Collective Foundation!

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

Perhaps you are in some way failing to meet the mission of your collective whether that is building capacity, raising funds, transitioning leadership, or anything else. Whatever you do to address that momentary failure, do not fail alone.

Established in 2021, Kia Kotahi Ako (Learning As One) is activating education initiatives in Aoteroa New Zealand, to have the biggest impact for Papatūānuku (mother earth). Motivated by the climate crisis and an inequitable education system, Kia Kotahi Ako is an ambitious collaboration to tackle these challenges together.Edmund Hillary

Joe Torreggiani, a software engineer and social activist, has always been concerned about making the world a better place. With the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, he observed the community around him more closely and moved toward action to mitigate the social unrest and tension rising in society.Joe connected

Reinventing education, Empowering Parents, Inspiring KidsManisha Snoyer is a passionate teacher with 15 years of experience with kids of different talents, psychological types, and walks of life. This "teacherpreneur” founded Modulo—a tool that accelerates learning through individualized instruction and a flexible school schedule. Manisha debunks myths about

PHP Foundation co-founder Roman Pronskiy on the state of the language, and why its future is bright.Born and raised in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Roman Pronsky has always worked in the tech industry. He started by studying math, and later programming organically fit in. After 10 years working as a software

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

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

Emmi Bevensee is a data scientist and researcher of complexity, hate, the far-right, and disinformation, originally from the US and now based in NZ. They created Social Media Analysis Toolkit (SMAT) to facilitate activists, journalists, researchers, and other social good organizations to analyze and visualize misinformation, disinformation, and harmful online

Disaster fundraising calls for immediate action, with no time to set up anonprofit or do paperwork. Open Collective helps passionate activists insituations that require quick responses. Whether a natural disaster or a warcrisis, communities need accessible and transparent tools for efficientcooperation, especially when it comes to

Проект 1K зібрав [https://www.1kproject.org/] 5,4 мільйона доларів набезпосередню допомогу понад 5000 родинам, які постраждали від війни. Ми провелищиру розмову з українсько-американським засновником проєкту Алексом Іскольдом.Алекс Іскольд – один із тих, хто живе в стилі «американська мрія». Зараз вінпрацює в Нью-Йорку; та народився Алекс

1K Project [http://1kproject.org] has raised $5.4 million for direct relief to5,000+ families affected by the war. In this heartfelt conversation, we speakwith Ukrainian-American founder Alex Iskold.Alex Iskold is living the American dream. Now in New York, he was born in theUkrainian city

A kiwi course teaching evidence-backed techniques to detox our discourseDo you think that arguing with racists on the internet is like screaming intothe void, but not speaking up also seems wrong? Do you wish you could engagewith racist family members or acquaintances without either screaming or biting

The goal is nothing less than the democratization of the web’s futureAt Igalia [https://igalia.com], we believe very strongly in the open web and itsadvancement.  One of the barriers we see to moving forward is that adding newfeatures to web browsers has always been dependent

The Metagov Gateway helps communities govern themselves by connecting decision-making tools and governance services to platforms where decisions need to be made. Over the past couple months, we’ve been working with Open Collective communities who are using the Gateway to improve their governance.One Open Collective community, Bhumisparsha, was

Check out these inspirational updates from initiatives hosted by Open Collective Foundation:🌟 Rogers Parks Free Store has distributed over 14,000 necessary items within their community in Chicago.🌟 Study-into-Action shares their next steps following the completion of their cohort to progress the solidarity economy movement. View all the recordings here.

Identifing solutions to key barriers in different global contexts and across sectors.

> Ersilia [https://www.ersilia.io/] is a nonprofit organisation that supportsresearch against infectious and neglected diseases. Our goal is to facilitateadoption of artificial intelligence tools to accelerate the development of newmedicines. We focus on establishing collaborations in low-resourced settingswhere the costs of drug discovery are

An interview with Marko Kazic, creator of Pionir Free School in Serbia which serves as a replicable model towards building an exponential culture.

Transparently trace a $500 contribution through Open CollectiveThe mission of Morevna Project [https://opencollective.com/morevnaproject] is todevelop, improve and popularize open-source technologies for animation. Whileall money flows are transparent on Open Collective, it's interesting to traceand explain the path it takes in a

How the community came together to help families escape a war zone.The Persian proverb یکی برای همه و همه برای یکی means "Every one shouldsacrifice for the community, and the community should come together for the one". This has been exemplified over the last month, as

Jacquelyn Clemmons of Okionu Birth Foundation wants to to normalize complete and holistic postpartum care through by supporting both parents with nourishing meals following the birth of a child.

The Usenet Big-8 Management Board has joined Open CollectiveDecades before Facebook and Twitter, Usenet was the Internet’s main platform forannouncements, discussions, and chat. The venerable communication networkremains active thanks to worldwide volunteers.Online discourse today is dominated by commercial social media platforms thatgather and exploit

Using the medium of movies to showcase inspiring solutions to the wickedproblems of our times. Happen Films [https://happenfilms.com/] believes the solutions are out there,and that people are already pioneering the transition we need in society. Theyfind and share these stories to inspire others to make