# The Discourse Encouragement Fund

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-discourse-encouragement-fund/57504
**Category:** Blog
**Created:** [February 16, 2017, 9:34pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-discourse-encouragement-fund/57504 "2017-02-16T21:34:39Z")
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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2017, 11:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-discourse-encouragement-fund/57504/7 "2017-02-16T23:03:55Z")

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Thanks, greatly appreciated! But we will gladly accept donations of your _time_ more so than money. 😉

> [@Possible to donate money to Discourse?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/possible-to-donate-money-to-discourse/26208/9):
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> We appreciate the sentiment, but often the best way to contribute involves your time more than money. Yes, you could sign up for a hosting plan. That’s always appreciated. or… set up a Discourse development environment and contribute pull requests to Discourse for copy, features, bugs, or translations repro bugs and post detailed (and reproducible, on [try.discourse.org](http://try.discourse.org) or here) bug repro steps here on meta run your own Discourse forum and provide feature and support feedback based on y…

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