Updates
Updates on our activities and progress.
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Suspending issue of new Virtual Cards
Published on March 22, 2023 by Alanna Irving
Virtual Cards are like a debit card linked to your Collective balance, enabling you to make purchases and upload the receipt afterward. Due to needing t...
Expense payment timeframes
Published on March 8, 2023 by Alanna Irving
We know getting expenses paid out quickly is important to our Collectives, and we always try to process them as soon as possible. However, paying expenses requires manually checking each one, which takes time. These checks...
OCF is hiring! Seeking financial admin to join the team
Published on March 6, 2023 by Alanna Irving
Open Collective Foundation is growing, and we're growing our team to match. We are looking to fill a financial admin and user support role, specifically seeking people with accounts payable & receivable experience in a 501(c)(3) nonprof...
Unavailable Next Week + NYC people, come say hello!
Published on February 16, 2023 by Nathan Hewitt
Hello OCF collectives! As we announced back on January 26, the US-based OCF team members will be gathering in New Yor...
OCF 2022 in review: what a year!
Published on February 1, 2023 by Alanna Irving
This blog post looking at 2022 shows what a huge year it has been for our community. Check it out! Also, don't forget we've got...
Low Availability Feb 20-24 + NYC Meetup + Updated Address Reminder
Published on January 26, 2023 by Nathan Hewitt
Hello OCF collective admins, We hope you all are well as we settle into 2023! Here are a few updates and reminders: 1. OCF's US-based core staff will be retreating together in New York City from Monday, February 20 to Friday, February 24....
Reflections on Unrestricted Support for OCF Artist-Organizers in 2022
Published on December 29, 2022 by Caroline Woolard
Imagining & Enacting the Worlds We Want with Artist-Organizer Fellows · Reposted from our OCF blog.Open Collective Foundat...
Winter solstice: please post a "What's Update" by EOD today
Published on December 21, 2022 by Nathan Hewitt
A quick reminder to Collective admins: if you have not already, please post a "What's Update" reflecting on your year and looking forward to the next one! We lay out what to include in the update ...
Virtual Cards - Address Change
Published on December 16, 2022 by Kayla
Hi all! With our recent address change, please be sure to update your virtual card payment address to: 440 N. Barranca Avenue...
OCF Address Change + What's Update Reminder + More
Published on December 14, 2022 by Nathan Hewitt
Hello admins! We have several different things to tell you about this week! Email contact@opencollective.foundation with any questions. OCF's mailing address is changing · Beginning today, please advise donors to send check...
📣OCF Collective Board Seat Voting, What's Update & more!📣
Published on December 5, 2022 by Sade Swift
Happy December! 🌿 OCF Collective Board Seat Voting We are so excited to introduce you to our collective selected board candidates below. Thank you so much to everyone who nominated, we are grateful for community!...
Action Req'd: Post an end-of-year "What's Update"
Published on December 1, 2022 by Nathan Hewitt
What's up, folks? The Open Collective Foundation team invites (read: requires 🙃) each Collective to reflect ...
Surfaced Virtual Card Limits! + Check Processing Time + TechSoup Signups
Published on November 15, 2022 by Nathan Hewitt
Hello OCF Collectives! We have three quick administrative updates for you: 1. OCF has worked with the Open Collective engineering team to surface the amount remaining on your virtual cards at all times, as well as the day that the card's li...
Nominate an OCF board member! Collectives will vote on their pick
Published on October 18, 2022 by Alanna Irving
We want you to choose the next OCF board member · Who do you want to represent Collectives in governance decision-making? What voices should be around the table? There are incredible thinkers and leaders in this community—tell us w...
OCF is hiring 2 roles: Ops & Admin Support and Ops & Finance Leader
Published on October 6, 2022 by Alanna Irving
Open Collective Foundation (OCF) is growing our team with two new roles to meet increasing demand and scale. Both roles are fully remote, 30-40 hours/week, ve...
New transparent budget visualization feature
Published on September 25, 2022 by Alanna Irving
Just like the budgets of our Collectives, OCF's own budget is open and transparent. Now there's a new feature that enables more accessible expl...
Update about fraud/theft and recovered funds
Published on September 20, 2022 by Alanna Irving
Transparency and trust are at the heart of our values at Open Collective Foundation. Accordingly, we want to share with our community about a difficult thing that happened recently: OCF was the victim of theft via bank fraud....
Employment (with benefits!) through OCF
Published on September 15, 2022 by Alanna Irving
Did you know employment through OCF is an option? Collectives can put staff on payroll as W-2 employees, and offer benefits. Employees can be full time or part time, with no minimum number of hours (though 30 hrs/wk is the minimum for benef...
OCF is seeking new board members
Published on September 1, 2022 by Alanna Irving
We are looking for 1 or 2 board members for Open Collective Foundation · OCF is a nonprofit fiscal sponsor with a tech platform that is on track to enable 400 groups to raise $20m-$30m in d...
Paypal payouts paused for expenses
Published on August 24, 2022 by Alanna Irving
Open Collective Foundation is experiencing a Paypal outage. We are working to resolve this as quickly as possible, but it looks like it may take a couple weeks. We're very sorry for delays this is causing to payouts....