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 events coming up this week—a community forum on Friday and welcome party on Monday. See you there!
What an incredible year 2022 was for Open Collective Foundation—an indication of the surge of energy, ideas, and resources flowing into solidarity movements. We are humbled and happy to provide a legal and financial toolbox the groups who make up these movements need to do their important and diverse work in communities.
Contributions grew nearly 3x over the previous year, to $30m+ from 55,500+ unique donors, and the number of amazing Collectives we host nearly doubled, to 461. Over $19m was paid out to over 2,500 activists, community builders, researchers, and creators who need resources to sustainably make positive change. And, to keep up with all this growth, we launched new services and programs, developed our team and board, and evolved as an organization.
2022 Leaderboard
Top Collectives by number of contributors
1117: 1K Project, direct support for families affected by the war in Ukraine.
697: Bushwish Ayuda Mutua, a network of neighbors supporting neighbors / una red de vecines apoyando vecines.
394: South Philly Fridge, community fridges and pantries which provide access to food aid 24 hours a day.
332: Club A Kitchen, mutual aid group that provides food, groceries, PPE and hygiene supplies.
$931k: art.coop, growing the Solidarity Economy movement by centering systems-change work led by working class, queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, People of Color (QTBIPOC) artists and culture-bearers.
We developed a new Discovery Dashboardwhere you can explore Collectives by topic and location.
We supported four artist-organizer fellows to create media about the solidarity economy with 12 months of unrestricted funding.
OCF's Solidarity School hosted many events, about participatory budgeting, collaborative funding, democratic decision-making, money health, the solidarity economy, and legal advice, as well as offers and needs markets, welcome parties, and community forums where Collective connect and support one another.
We now enable employment with benefits for 38 Collective workers, giving those working in unincorporated groups access to stable livelihoods usually only available to larger, formally established organizations.
We supported Open Collective to be fully translated into Spanish.
Marina Lopez
Posted on February 1, 2023