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description: The Defold Foundation is funding Defold development through community donations, corporate partners, partnership deals and support contracts. The funds received from donations are used for hiring developers to work on Defold, pay for hosting of services, purchase of hardware for testing and development and to pay for travel expenses when attending conferences.
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<h3>Community donations</h3>
<p>The Defold community of individuals and teams of developers are invited to support Defold development through one-time or recurring donations, starting at $3 per month up to a maximum of $250 per month. The current community donation goal and the community donation rewards and benefits, which are awarded based on the size of your contribution, can be seen below:</p>

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		<h5>Rewards and benefits</h5>
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			<li>A forum badge and title that will show you as a community sponsor</li>
			<li>Recognition in our newsletter</li>
			<li>Invites to test new functionality before everyone else</li>
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			<li>Mention in the community donors section on the Defold webpage</li>
			<li>Defold T-Shirt and other swag</li>
			<li>Free one-on-one support sessions every month</li>
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		<h5>Community donation goal</h5>
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		<p>Received donations will be used to pay for the following operational costs:</p>
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			<li>$1050 per month will be used to cover 75% of the cost for the native extension build servers - The Defold native extension build servers are hosted with AWS and provided completely free of charge to all of our users.</li>
			<li>$50 per month will be used to cover 100% of the cost of the Defold user forum - The <a href="https://forum.defold.com">user forum</a> is the primary place for the Defold community to both get and give support.</li>
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		<h4>Sponsor via GitHub</h4>
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		<h4>Support us via Patreon</h4>
		<p>{% include patreon.html %}</p>
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		<h4>Donate using PayPal</h4>
		<p>{% include paypal.html %}</p>
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<h3>Other ways to support Defold</h3>
<p>If you do not wish to support Defold through a donation you can still contribute in other ways. As a free to use, source available, project Defold accepts community contributions to any part of the product, including, but not limited to, the engine, editor, extensions and documentation.</p>

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	{% include secondary_button.html link="/contribute" text="Learn how to contribute" %}
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