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Commit Change
A hosted fundraising platform (based on Houdini listed below) for people at all technical skill levels with possibility to get assistance from the support team too.

Community Bridge
A Linux Foundation project to help advance sustainability, security, and diversity in open source technology by enabling developers to raise and spend funding.

Core Infrastructure Initiative
A Linux Foundation initiative to collaboratively identify, fund and support critical elements of the global information infrastructure that are in need of assistance.

Ellcrys
Decentralized censorship-resistant Git hosting service and monetization platform through paid feature branches and bug fixes.

EthicalAds
An ethical ad platform that targets developers on Read the Docs sites.

Flattr
Supports multiple online creators with one single subscription or with one-time donations

FOSS Pay
A self hosted Python and PostgreSQL based donation collection platform for groups and individuals.

Free and Open Source Software Audit
FOSSA helps improve the overall security of the Internet through activities such as bug bounties, hackathons, and having it sponsored by EU budget.

Fund Request
A decentralised marketplace for requesting development bug fixes, security audits, etc to the Open Source developer community.

Fundition
Fundition is a decentralized, peer-to-peer crowdfunding and collaboration platform, built on the Steem blockchain.

Gitcoin
Gitcoin is the easiest way to leverage the open source community to incentivize or monetize work.

GitFund
Open source project sponsorship platform for tiered support such as Gold, Silver, Bronze sponsors, etc.

GitHub Sponsors
Allows the developer community to financially support the people who design, build, and maintain the open source projects they depend on, directly on GitHub.

Gitpay
An issue bounty platform for Git-powered projects with an integrated payment system.

Gitstore
An online-store-like platform for selling access to public or private repositories, packages, etc.

Giveth
Decentralized transparent not-for-profit donation platform supporting open source projects with Ethereum donations.

Goteo
A collective financing and distributed collaboration platform for projects for giving individual rewards, and generating collective returns.

Hacken Proof
A decentralized bug bounty platform for cybersecurity and cooperation between ethical hackers and customers.

Hit Chain
A developer autonomous community that bring together developers, investors and IT experts.

Hopsie
Allows fundraising through donation campaigns and follow up with marketing campaigns.

Houdini
Houdini is an all-in-one, self-hosted, open source fundraising software developed in Ruby on Rails.

Indiegogo
A crowdfunding and on demand campaigning platform with marketplace.

IndieMaker
A community marketplace where makers sell their side-projects, unused domains and online businesses.

Issue Hunt
Allows open source project owners to fund Github issues and developers to hunt the issues.

IT Sphere
We bring together digital products developers, outsource developers, investors and IT experts.

Katalyse
Allows project creators to raise funds and kickstart their projects. The focus of the platform is moving into launching and listing ICOs.

Kauri
A decentralized technical knowledge base for the Ethereum ecosystem by incentivising creators and the community.

Kickstarter
Kickstarter helps artists, designers, and other creators find the resources and support they need to make their ideas a reality.

Ko-fi
A friendly way to ask fans to support your work for the price of a coffee.

Leanpub
A self-publishing platform for selling in-progress and completed e-books and online courses.

Liberapay
Liberapay is a recurrent donations platform where people who benefit from free work support creators.

License Zero
A techno-legal vending machine (platform and tools) for dual-licensed open software.

Lyfevest
Connecting enterprise developers who are using open source with the contributors who are creating open source.

MemberSpace
Lock access to any page of your website such as courses, video tutorials and turn it into members-only.

NLnet
Financially supporting organizations and people that contribute to an open information society with ideas to fix the internet since 1997.

Open Collective
Provides tools for collectives to receive money and mechanisms to spend their money in a transparent way.

Open Gift
Allows open source consumers to send requests for implementations to the open source project teams.

Open Source Coin
A decentralized network run by the community and contributors, with a sustainable economy and value redistribution.

Patreon
Empowers membership businesses for creators through regular donations.

Pledgecamp
Pledgecamp is a decentralized ecosystem for crowdfunding with blockchain protected investments.

Saasify
Saasify handles all of the SaaS boilerplate, including user accounts, subscription billing, developer docs, and a polished marketing site.

Scarf
A cross-platform package manager for usage insights and payment collection.

Software Freedom Conservancy
A not-for-profit charity that helps promote, improve, develop, and defend FLOSS projects.

Software in the Public Interest
A non-profit organization to help organizations develop and distribute open hardware and software.

SourceCred
A tool for attributing credit to contributions based on metrics that describes how important they were.
Staroid
Staroid is a hosting platform that turns open source projects into running services to fund project contributors.

Status
Blockchain and crypto focused bounties platform.

Substack
Paid newsletters where readers pay directly to writers, bloggers, thinkers, and creatives of every background.

Teachable
A platform for online education through courses and coaching

Thanks
A tool that helps you see if any of the software you depend on has authors seeking for donations

Tidelift
Professional assurances directly from the open source experts who know it best.

Tipeee
Tipeee is a financing platform for Internet content creators allowing them to receive tips from their communities.

Udemy
A marketplace for teaching and learning, through online video courses.

Utopian
A provider of free crowdsourcing services to open source projects by incentivizing contribution.

XS Code
A platform for open source projects offering paid subscriptions for open core, dual licensing, support, models.