Unveiling Educopia’s New Brand and Website: A Tangible, Strategic Reaffirmation

Exciting news: Educopia has unveiled our new brand and website! Our refreshed identity is more than just a visual update—it’s a heartfelt commitment to our mission of connecting diverse knowledge communities with resources, power, and each other.

Wintergreen Women Writers Collective Receives $750,000 Award from Mellon Foundation

Building on lessons from the “Sacred Work” planning grant (2023-4), the grant will support the Wintergreen Women Writers Collective’s work over the next three years, with a focus on several key areas of development. 

Educopia took a Summer Break!

Naming the importance of taking a pause in order to recharge and move forward with renewed energy, we’re piloting and instituting annual closures at key points throughout 2024. Our first pilot closure will be the week of July 29 to August 2nd.

We have a Vision, and a Mission to Lead Us There

Since October 2022, Educopia has realized a Shared Leadership Model, refined an iterative organizational development practice, and introduced tactics to continuously strengthen our relational framework, i.e., our ways of working in community. Today, we’re unveiling our new Vision and Mission statements.

Reflections in Transition: 
Planting the Seeds 
for Renewal

Educopia is 18 years old—a milestone year. At this milestone, we’re taking a moment to pause in our journey and survey our landscape and the results of the seeds we have planted, i.e., the communities, initiatives, and opportunities that we have nurtured and stewarded.

Wintergreen Women Writers Collective Receives $150,000 Award from Mellon Foundation

The Wintergreen Women Writers Collective is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a $150,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation to support its mission of promoting the work of women writers. The grant will be administered by the Educopia Institute, the Collective’s fiscal sponsor, and supported by James Madison University Libraries.

Meet the Educopians: Melanie Schlosser

Melanie Schlosser is Educopia’s Senior Community Facilitator, working with the Library Publishing Coalition and other communities and projects related to scholarly communications.

Meet the Educopians: Nancy Adams

Nancy Adams is the Program Assistant for the Library Publishing Coalition, one of Educopia’s community cultivation partners.

Scaling Small: Partnerships and Organizational Resilience for Cita Press

Educopia is proud to serve as the fiscal sponsor for Cita Press as they begin their Scaling Small grant project, expanding the Cita Press catalog, pursuing joint projects with Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) and other partners, and piloting and implementing revenue-generating programs to sustain Cita in the long term.