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title: OpenRefine

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# OpenRefine

## Short bio (250 characters)
> This is used where your sponsorship is shared (e.g., social cards and github.com/sponsors if you opt-in to be featured). 
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A powerful tool for cleaning messy data for Windows, Linux, and macOS.

## Introduction 
> Your introduction is the main content that appears on the OpenRefine GitHub Sponsors profile, so it is a great opportunity to help potential sponsors learn more about you, your work, and why their sponsorship is important to you. 
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### Who we are
OpenRefine is made up of volunteer and sponsored contributors constantly improving the software you love.  We are funded by grants and gifts from institutions and individuals such as yourself.  Our website is https://openrefine.org

Code for Science and Society, Inc. (CS&S) is the fiscal host for OpenRefine who retains the payments that you make to OpenRefine and handles our financial accounting and reporting.\
Code for Science and Society, Inc. is a registered US 501(c)(3) public charity. EIN 81-3791683
You can visit their website at [https://codeforscience.org](https://codeforscience.org))

### How we use your donation
When you sponsor OpenRefine with a recurring monthly payment, the funds are sent to CS&S and used to fund project activities such as new features, bug fixes, documentation and new releases. Examples of expenses include developer contracts, paid internships, domain name, events, etc.
When you sponsor OpenRefine, you also get a GitHub sponsorship badge.

### Sponsorship Tiers
> You can set sponsor tiers with different prices and rewards. While only one published tier is required, adding more tiers gives the community different price points to support you at.
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>     You can have a total of 10 published tiers.
>     The maximum monthly tier amount is $6,000.
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(10 proposed tiers out of 10)

**$1 a month**
Say thank you and put a smile on our face!
Benefits include:
* GitHub Sponsor Badge

**$3 a month**
Give us a big virtual hug!
Benefits include:
* GitHub Sponsor Badge

**$5 a month**
Tell us how much you love OpenRefine!
Benefits include:
* GitHub Sponsor Badge

**$10 a month**
Generously thank the team every month for that feature that you cannot live without and that saves you so much time!
Benefits include:
* GitHub Sponsor Badge

**$20 a month**
You are a fan of OpenRefine
Benefits include:
* GitHub Sponsor Badge

**$50 a month**
You are a true fan of OpenRefine
Benefits include:
* GitHub Sponsor Badge

**$100 a month**
You are an amazing true fan of OpenRefine
Benefits include:
* GitHub Sponsor Badge
* Listed in our Readme 

**$500 a month**
News, GLAM, Science, and Cultural Heritage institutions that love and use OpenRefine. We see you. We love you! Can you love us back? We think you can!  Hint: Ask your boss!
Benefits include:
* GitHub Sponsor Badge
* Listed in our Readme 


**$1,000 a month**
Help us make the impossible possible!
Benefits include:
* GitHub Sponsor Badge
* Listed in our Readme 


**$6,000 a month**
Large non-profit or corporate sponsorship with deeper pockets that want to make the world a better place and know the impact that free open source data tools like OpenRefine have on science and society. Oh yeah....and THANK YOU we'd love to speak with you sometime! And if you have even more to give than this, we would definitely want to speak with you!
Benefits include:
* GitHub Sponsor Badge
* Listed in our Readme
* Logo and Link on our website


