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  • COLLECTIVES
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      • Rejecting and Refunding Financial Contributions
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  1. Getting Started

Keeping your Community Updated

You can keep your community updated on your Collective, Fiscal Host, or Organization by sending emails, update posts, and hosting events.

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Communication is an important part of growing your community, and making people feel valued.

Open Collective offers a variety of ways to keep your contributors and supporters informed using the platform.

You can choose which ones to use based on your strategy, and adapt them to your own style of communication.

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Use your platform to share updates on recent changes

Bring your community together and sell tickets to gatherings

This is a discussion forum for your community to converse, ask questions, say thank you and get things done together.

Customise the emails you send to thank contributors and publicize events.

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