Open Collective Foundation is shutting down
Open Collective Foundation is shutting down
Dear OSC community, You may be aware of recent developments regarding the dissolution of Open Collective Foundation (OCF) by the end of the year 2024. We are extremely sad to hear the news and are still processing it, but we wanted to send...
"Our hearts are heavy for our friends and colleagues at Open Collective Foundation with whom we shared dreams, efforts, admiration, and inspiration as we each worked to build a community of care and support."
Where's this announcement?
This post also clarifies the differences between the entities that make up the Open Collective family and what this dissolution means.
Open Collective. Inc (OC) is a for-profit entity. We are responsible for building the Open Collective Platform that many fiscal hosts use for their operations.
The founders of Open Collective also founded and supported the early development of several nonprofit organizations:
Open Collective Foundation (OCF) a US-based 501(c)(3) fiscal host that hosts charitable projects, and which has chosen to dissolve.
So the Open Collective Inc for-profit created the Open Collective Foundation non-profit, and the latter is shutting down, not the former. 🤔
Anybody know any good alternatives?
If you don't need fiscal hosting then LiberaPay is the superb recurrent donations platform.
Hmm ya I am asking for the beehaw admins. Maybe fiscal hosting can be done by a different org? I don't think there's anything that does both.