Case Study: Sustainable Progress and Equality Collective empowers diverse communities with Open Collective

Sustainable Progress and Equality Collective - Customer Case Study

Sustainable Progress and Equality Collective (SPEC) was a social impact initiative co-founded to empower people from underrepresented backgrounds through paid research and development programs. The collective faced the challenge of needing a transparent and efficient way to receive donations and pay its contributors while avoiding the significant bureaucracy of establishing its own non-profit entity. They turned to Open Collective to utilize its fiscal sponsorship service through the Open Collective Foundation.

Open Collective provided the solution by enabling SPEC to immediately set up a transparent collective, allowing them to receive funds and distribute them to contributors with full visibility. This platform facilitated direct, fee-free payments from other partner organizations. By using Open Collective, SPEC was able to quickly launch its operations, embody its principle of mutual reciprocity by ensuring contributors were paid for their work, and build trust with donors through complete financial transparency.

Sustainable Progress and Equality Collective

Joe Torreggiani

Software Engineer and Social Activist