# Funding Options We encourage Collectives to get creative about funding channels beyond the standard reward tiers. Get inspired by these ideas, and come up with your own! The Open Collective platform is flexible enough to accommodate all kinds of creative approaches. Check with your [Fiscal Host](https://docs.opencollective.com/help/fiscal-hosts/fiscal-hosts) to see if these options are available to you. ## Ethical Advertising Speaking to niche audiences, like developers, in their own environment is one way OSS can leverage the tangible value it provides companies. Examples include [EthicalAds](https://www.ethicalads.io/), [Carbon Ads](https://www.carbonads.net/) or referral fee solutions like [Triplebyte](https://triplebyte.com/). We [wrote a blog post](https://medium.com/open-collective/using-ads-to-sustain-open-source-d048b75d4979) about this if you want to know more. ## Swag Shop Give something to your contributors for their donations—swag! Sell t-shirts or other items and put the funds in your Collective budget. Collectives have been using [threadless](https://webpack.threadless.com/mens/t-shirt/regular), [bonfire](https://www.bonfire.com), [teezily](https://www.teezily.com/stores/voltshop) and [cotton bureau](https://cottonbureau.com/products/parcel-t-shirt#/1402774/tee-men-standard-tee-vintage-navy-tri-blend-s). Usually, you can set up sales revenue to go directly to your fiscal host via PayPal or bank transfer. Then the host can credit the amount to your Collective. Different hosts have different policies, so reach out to them and confirm. As this is a manual process, hosts generally prefer aggregating transactions and crediting less frequently (such as once a month). Get in touch with your fiscal host for details. ## Affiliations Some projects can participate in affiliate programs. For example, Material-UI receives funding from themes via [Creative Tim Affiliates](https://www.creative-tim.com/affiliates/new). A contributor could also start a [workshop in Academy ](https://webpack.academy/)and choose to return a % to the community. ## VIP Support Some Collectives have a Base Support Tier that gives Sponsors access to support hours per month in exchange for a yearly contribution. [Babel is one of them](https://opencollective.com/babel). Priority answers to issues is also something you can offer sponsors. The new [Open Collective bot ](https://github.com/opencollective/opencollective-bot/)should make that easier to manage. ## Sponsored Bounties Your Sponsors can set up bounties for features they want. We [interviewed](https://medium.com/open-collective/jhipsters-bounty-system-and-how-it-saved-the-project-cc118888f642) JHipster about their bounty program if you want to know more. ## Voting Rights Webpack has been experimenting with [their voting system](https://webpack.js.org/vote). They give Sponsors special influence when voting on the prioritization of their roadmap. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.opencollective.com/help/collectives/funding-options.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.