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Building a network across Europe means working across different legal systems, tax frameworks, and banking environments. Rather than asking one national association to carry the administrative burden or setting up a separate legal entity just to hold shared funds, we work with Open Source Europe, a Belgium-based nonprofit that acts as our fiscal host. They hold our funds, handle invoicing and compliance, and give us the legal structure we need without the overhead. We focus on the community; they handle the paperwork.

This model is already well-established in the Drupal ecosystem. DrupalCamps across Europe and the US have relied on Open Collective for years. The Drupal Association, Drupal Diversity & Inclusion, and many individual module maintainers all use the platform to fund their work transparently. NEDA is joining that tradition at the network level.

NEDA's shared budget supports activities that benefit the whole network: coordinating joint participation at events like DrupalCon, covering communication infrastructure, and enabling collaboration between national communities who would otherwise have no practical way to pool resources. Every expense is submitted, reviewed, and published openly before payment.