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Open Collective

Open Collective

Non-profit Organizations

Walnut, CA 2,513 followers

Legal and financial toolbox for grassroots groups 💙🧰💡Fundraising + legal status + money management platform 💸

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Open Collective is a legal and financial toolbox for grassroots groups. It’s a fundraising + legal status + money management platform for your community🎥 watch this 1 min short documentary about OC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfHeSpoSHTM

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https://opencollective.com

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Industry
Non-profit Organizations
Company size
11-50 employees
Headquarters
Walnut, CA
Type
Privately Held
Founded
2015
Specialties
open source, non profit, fintech, and fiscal sponsorship

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  • We are super excited to be co-hosting this event in Bristol on the 3rd of July! Looking forward to meeting groups that are currently using Open Collective and inspiring emerging groups to join the platform ✨https://lnkd.in/ee46VDCm

    View organization page for The Social Change Nest

    4,064 followers

    💥 Struggling to raise funds for your community group? You're not alone.Whether it's the hassle of bank accounts, complex registrations or grant applications, it can feel overwhelming, costing you time and money. Imagine a simpler and transparent way to collaboratively raise and manage funding.📅Join us in Bristol on July 3rd for an informal, practical session where we'll share simple, effective ways to get your grassroots group set up for fundraising. Get insights from usThe Social Change Nest, along withRising Arts Agency CIC, Bristol Redistro, andOpen Collective 🤝🎟️Book a free ticket here :https://hubs.la/Q03tlWvh0

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    View organization page for CryptPad

    959 followers

    💙 CryptPad runs on more than just code. It runs on the belief that collaboration should be private, secure, and open to everyone. No surveillance, no ads. Just real-time tools that you control.We’ve come a long way with the support of grants and subscribers, but to grow and keep improving, we also rely on our users.If CryptPad helps you or your team, consider backing the project onOpen Collective. Your donation helps us fix bugs faster, improve UX, and keep pushing for a more private web.🔗https://lnkd.in/d4jq694m#CryptPad#OpenSource#PrivacyTools#EncryptedCollaboration#SupportFOSS#DigitalSovereignty

  • View organization page for Open Collective

    2,513 followers

    Public funding is drying out. More and more non-profits start developing their own business to diversify their revenue. Do you have some examples of that to share?Is that something that you are also considering in your collective or organization?Share your thinking! 💭

  • It pays off to be transparent about your costs with your community.

    View profile for Phill Agnew

    Host of Nudge the UK's #1 Marketing Podcast

    One of these ads grew sales by 21.1%. Can you guess which? In 2020, Harvard researchers¹ tested the effects of showing a product's costs.Rather than just listing the price, they showed ingredient cost (and profit margin).For the test, this ad was shown in the Harvard canteen. Real-world sales were measured directly after the student saw the ad.Turns out, students were 21% more likely to buy the soup 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐰𝐧.Showcasing your costs boosts trust and makes customers more likely to buy. Source: ¹Mohan, B., Buell, R. W., & John, L. K. (2020). Lifting the veil: The benefits of cost transparency. Marketing Science, 39(6), 1105–1121.

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  • Are you on web3?Do you support public goods to lift up all the boats in the ecosystem?Do you also believe that there should be more transparency on how all those projects spend the money they raise with the community?Support the development of a web3 version of Open Collective. Vote with a small donation by April 17th onGitcoin. (Link in the comments)

  • View organization page for Open Collective

    2,513 followers

    🙏 A lot of gratitude to all of you for coming to our Open CollectiveFOSDEM meetup Saturday evening at theCommons Hub Brussels. We hope that you enjoyed it as much as we did!It was a beautiful evening with a mix of healthy local organic food 🥗 & drinks 🍻, presentations fromXavier Damman,Benjamin Piouffle,Leonardo Koch Kewitz,Kris Decoodt andLeen Schelfhout, a participative board to create the mycelium of the community 🕸️, another board to share our gratitude 🙏, offers & requests and conversation circles to have meaningful conversations in a cosy environmnent. 🔅🎉 We celebrated $50M raised for Open Source Collectives since we started theOpen Source Collective fiscal host. We talked about "protecting what is" with the current version of the platform moving to a new non-profit owned by existing fiscal hosts (Open Finance Consortium) and "making space for the new", with a new upcoming web3 version with support for multiple currencies.🏡 All of this at theCommons Hub Brussels, a space that is running on Open Collective and that is pushing us to keep innovating to embrace not only the yang economy of the euro or dollar, but also a yin economy. An economy that recognizes non-financial contributions that are equally important for the health and success of any collective. ☯️✨ To highlight some of the post-its that expressed gratitude: "Open Source makes my life much more enjoyable", "nice and supportive people in the open source community", "collective wisdom of the community", "members stepping up". But also gratitude to organizations such asNLnet foundation,Open Source Collective,Filecoin Foundation,Ethereum Foundation, ... 🎁 Offers to the community: "Better marketing and adoption" fromIra Nezhynska, "Mentoring program for women of open source" fromRuth Cheesley (she/her), "Help organizations make more contributions to open source and facilitate the relationship orgs-open source" fromGeorg Link, PhD🙋🏻♀️ And needs and requests: "looking for open source communities willing to become a DAO", "suggestions on how to get people / companies to contribute more recurrently", "bootstrap a lobbying group for digital commons bank", "a yin currency for our coop", "mentors for underrepresented folks in tech",Ruth Cheesley (she/her): "platform instance as a digital common", "researching core team governance models, who to add?", "peer support, knowledge sharing, collaboration!", and more! (see photo).Shall we do this again next year during FOSDEM 2026?Tag the people, organizations and collectives that you can see in the pictures!

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  • Open Collective reposted this

    View profile for Jon Alexander

    Storyteller | Strategist | Connector | Visiting Fellow, Harvard University

    The next Citizen Spotlight call is coming - and it’s your chance to meet these two powerhouse women, and learn about the work they’ve done to create what I think of as critical infrastructure for a#CitizenFuture…Between them,Pia Mancini andEsther Foreman have madeOpen Collective open and accessible to community organisations across the UK, so they can get started with their work quickly and easily, without having to spend time on admin ahead of action.Nuts and bolts, OC is a platform that enables a combination of open budgeting and crowdfunding - totally transparent incomings and outgoings. That transparency is what effectively replaces the admin: because anyone can see what’s going on, that is the governance.We’re signed up on OC as the Citizen Collective, and I’m excited to get into the structure and functionality… but mostly this call is going to be about the stories of these two very special humans.Pia, originally from Argentina, is one of the original OC cofounders. She and I have known each other a good few years, dating back to her 1m+ TED talk on “Upgrading Democracy for the Broadband Era” (link in comments), and her work on the pioneering Partido de la Red (The Network Party) in Argentina.Esther Foreman, for her part, is a serial civic and social entrepreneur who createdThe Social Change Nest to unleash the potential of OC in the UK. As founder also ofThe Social Change Agency and many other initiatives besides, Esther has been doing whatever the work demands for more years than she looks like she could have been alive, and is a true hero of mine.Come meet and learn from them! Wednesday 20th, 10am UK time.Registration here:https://lu.ma/agyw5s6m

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  • Have questions about the new non-profit ownership of the current Open Collective Platform? 🌱Dive into our FAQ and diagram outlining the new structure 🐝https://lnkd.in/gzYsdq6D

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  • View organization page for Open Collective

    2,513 followers

    The Open Collective Platform is moving to a community governed non-profit! 🐝A group of fiscal hosts representing thousands of collectives have created a new independent, community-governed, non-profit organizationOpen Finance Consortium and have reached an agreement with Open Collective Inc. to take over the Open Collective platform as it exists today. 👏🏼

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