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About the author

Nathan Hewitt (he/him) is a nonprofit and community-tech operations, strategy, and programs professional, currently focused on several personal and consulting projects. He most recently led the operations of Open Collective. Nathan’s writing has been featured in Nonprofit Quarterly and WIRED, and he presents and panels on topics such as the future of fiscal sponsorship, the solidarity economy, financial transparency, community engagement, nonprofit management, digital security basics, and DIY zine-making. On his blog, he has written about prison abolition, settler colonialism, and security culture, and he enjoys producing ambient and noise music.

See Nathan’s resume here (updated July 2024)

Nathan leaning towards a television, looking off camera toward an old VHS camera which is creating visual feedback by pointing at the TV and cycling its output through the TV again and again, repeating his face over and over, almost infinitely on screen.

Artificial intelligence was not used in any stage of the creation of the texts on this site before July 2024, when Nathan began consulting Chat-GPT for research purposes. He does not use AI to edit his writing.

Other published writings

Startups Have a Sellout Problem. There’s a Better Way, October 2022 (co-author)
Open Collective’s Community Guidelines, April 2022
Deep dive: community stewardship of Open Collective through a Perpetual Purpose Trust, March 2022
How to Build Platforms that Our Movements Can Own, December 2021 (co-author)
Pathways for Open Collective’s “Exit to Community”, November 2021 (co-author)
Early musings on “Exit to Community” for Open Collective, October 2021 (co-author)
Five Tips for Equitable and Efficient Nonprofit Recruitment, June 2021
Finding Donors for Your Art: DIY Prospect Research for Artists, June 2020
Security and Privacy Tools for Artistic Collaboration, April 2020
Keeping Donors Happy: A Donor Stewardship Guide for Artists, November 2019
8 Things Fiscal Sponsorship Isn’t, October 2019 (co-author)

Music

(Music for) Twelve Goodbyes (2023), ambient (write-up)
Alter Ego (2022), harsh noise
In those places, we are the ghosts. (2020), drone
Music for Fifteen Emails, Part One and Two (2020), ambient/environmental (review)
FM 3-24 MCWP 3-33.5 (2019), programatic/experimental
That Sacred, Electric Sound (2018), drone/experimental

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Works on this site authored by Nathan Hewitt are licensed under the Peer Production License. Other copyrighted works are reproduced for educational purposes only. Open source content retains the existing license under which it was used. Nathan is not a lawyer, accountant, or advisor of any kind. Don’t do anything he tells you to do. (Yada yada yada.)