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 Another way to sponsor us or get an issue solved is to create a [bug bounty](https://www.bountysource.com/teams/profanity/issues).
 Here one sets a bounty on a certain task and once the task is completed you send the money to the person who did the work.
 
+Tasks from our [sponsors](SPONSORS.md) will be tackled first.
+
 Thank you! <3
 
 ## How to contribute
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+# Giving back
+
+Thank you very much to all of our sponsors and donors (including those that want to stay private)!
+
+## Sponsors
+[William Wennerström](https://github.com/wstrm/) since January 2020
+[Martin Dosch](https://github.com/mdosch) since January 2020
+
+## Donors
+[Martin Dosch](https://github.com/mdosch)
+
+## Services
+[William Wennerström](https://github.com/wstrm/) for sponsoring our use of [sourcehut CI](https://builds.sr.ht/~wstrm/profanity?)
+[toogley](toogley) for sponsoring our [mailing list](https://lists.notraces.net/mailman/listinfo/profanity)