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# OCF Monthly Community Forum - Apr 2022

## Agenda
**Intro/Check-In**
*[Who are you? Where are you from? What initiative are you with? What brought you to the forum? What successes are you celebrating today?]*

* Cierra - Womanist Working Collective - Becoming more active member of OCF community; celebrating growing in fundraising and philanthropy.
* Joe T. - Sustainable Progress and Equality Collective - Joined to be in community with OCF hosted initiative ecosystem; put in their first invoice for a collaboration with another collective in the ecoystem.
* Taylor - Distribute Aid USA - Currently in Pittsburgh completing Afghan resettlement; here to keep pulse and check in with other parts of OCF community; success was concluding Afghan resettlement and distributed about $3M in aid and assistance throughout the process
* Mike - Open Collective Foundation - Program Manager who loves hosting the forum and creating a space to spotlight the work of our collectives; foster collaboration, encourage connection, and share resources between collectives; very passionate about facilitation
* Nathan - Open Collective Foundation - Deals with policies and operations such as employment or insurance and other behind the scenes work; loves hearing about the work happening within the collectives and celebrating our support for families in Ukraine through the 1k Project
* Nia - Open Collective Foundation/Artist Organizer - Enjoys hearing what everyone is doing and thinking about possible collaborations with collectives; works with Baltimore Roundtable for Economic Democracy which offers non-extractive loans to cooperatives; also worker-owner at Red Emma's
* Nan - Sustainable Progress and Equality Collective - Primarily does research and edits Journal of Engaged Research which provides publishing opportunities for those from underrepresented backgrounds; here to learn about all things OCF and get more involved
* Lori - Civic Hacker Network - Want to be more engaged with OCF and seeking to take advantage of unique opportunity here
* Ebony - Open Collective Foundation/Artist Organizer/Cooperative Journal Media - Loves to check in on the forum to better understand the needs of the collectives and hosts a podcast where she interviews people who are working collectively; celebrating transition
* Alex - Sexta Grietas - Applying for a job with Open Collective and was joining the forum to learn more about what is happening in the larger community

**Review of [new updates](https://opencollective.com/foundation/updates) from OCF**

* Six Month Update to [OCF Strategic Plan](https://blog.opencollective.com/ocf-strategic-plan-checkin/)
* New virtual Offers & Needs Market rollout via [Airtable](https://airtable.com/shrkzkvAvJ8HlswA1) and [Slack](https://opencollective.slack.com/archives/C031JR2545C)

**Agile Check-Ins (What are your blockers?)**

* Cierra - Grants being issued by WWC appear to be taxable to the recipient. Mike and Nathan advised that they reach out to discuss the hardship grantmaking option as this would ensure recipients do not suffer a tax burden.

**Offers and Needs Market**

* Lori - Civic Hacker Network was approved for its first grant and wanted to celebrate that.
* Cierra - Womanist Working Collective needs a Co-Organizer of Communications
* Ebony - Story-Into-Action was spotlighted last month. They are thinking about a speed round which is less intense than the initial round of workshops. They are thinking about creating space for artists to hosts Offers & Needs Markets themselves.
* Nan - Just put out a call for papers and have two galleries on their Medium page including a series of self portraits for Pride month and another on incarcerated individuals in the LGBTQIA+ community
* Nathan - Working on updating the Community Guidelines and seeking feedback on the Google Doc with a draft set of guidelines that apply to all users on the platform. Mike added that this feedback round on the guidelines is a leading edge of our shift to E2C which will require participatory governance by all stakeholders in the OC/F community.

**Closing**
