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about/introduction.md

@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ Open Collective is a platform where communities can collect and disburse money t
 
 ### Why Open Collective? <a id="why-opencollective"></a>
 
-The Internet has been really good at helping people do great things together. But things still get complicated once money is involved. These challenges hold communities back from getting all the support they need from backers and sponsors to achieve their mission.
+The Internet has been really good at helping people do great things together. But things still get complicated once money is involved. These challenges hold communities back from getting all the support they need from supporters and sponsors to achieve their mission.
 
 We enable communities to have economic power, so they can sustain themselves and have a larger impact on the world.
 

about/the-open-collective-way/community-guidelines-1.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Community Guidelines
 
-**We are a community based on trust, transparency, and contribution. In order to keep it that way, we expect everyone to act in accordance with these guidelines, including all Collectives, Backers, Sponsors, and our own Open Collective team.**
+**We are a community based on trust, transparency, and contribution. In order to keep it that way, we expect everyone to act in accordance with these guidelines, including all Collectives, Supporters, Sponsors, and our own Open Collective team.**
 
 ## **Be Authentic**
 

collectives/collectives.md

@@ -11,9 +11,9 @@
 
 ### What is Open Collective good for?
 
-Open Collective is great for all kinds of collaborative groups, like meetups, open source projects, neighborhood associations, clubs, unions, movements, conferences, non-profits, grant recipients, and incubators.
+Open Collective is great for all kinds of collaborative groups, like meetups, open-source projects, neighbourhood associations, clubs, unions, movements, conferences, non-profits, grant recipients, and incubators.
 
-You shouldn't have to incorporate a legal entity, start a new bank accounts, and do bookkeeping just to collect and spend money for a project—and with Open Collective you don't have to.
+You shouldn't have to incorporate a legal entity, start a new bank account, and do bookkeeping just to collect and spend money for a project—and with Open Collective you don't have to. 
 
 ### Why should I use Open Collective?
 

collectives/create-collective.md

@@ -10,11 +10,9 @@ Then, select the category that best describes your Collective.
 
 !['Create a Collective' page showing three categories for Collectives: open source projects, community, and climate initiatives.](../.gitbook/assets/collectives_creating-a-collective_collective-creation_2020-03-11.png)
 
-If you are not creating an open source Collective, you will be immediately directed to a Collective creation form, where you will be asked for your **Collective name**, **URL slug** of choice, and a **brief description** of your Collective's activities. 
+If you are not creating an open-source Collective, you will be immediately directed to a Collective creation form, where you will be asked for your **Collective name**, **URL slug** of choice, and a **brief description** of your Collective's activities. 
 
 ![](../.gitbook/assets/collectives_creating-a-collective_form_2020-03-23.png)
 
-If you are creating a Collective for an **open source project**, you will be directed to a verification process to join the Open Source Collective fiscal host. [More info about that here](osc-verification.md).
-
-
+If you are creating a Collective for an **open-source project**, you will be directed to a verification process to join the [Open Source Collective](https://www.oscollective.org/) fiscal host. [More info about that here](osc-verification.md).
 

collectives/events.md

@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ Log in to your Collective and scroll down to the Events section. Click on the **
 
 You can create several kinds of tickets.
 
-* Type \(backers, sponsor, or ticket\)
+* Type \(supporters, sponsor, or ticket\)
 * Name \(eg, gold sponsor, free ticket, donation, etc\)
 * Description \(what the ticket includes or who it's for\)
 * Amount \(price\) can be free or you can charge

collectives/integrations.md

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ For Mattermost or Gitter, first set up a webhook as described above, and then [s
 
 ## Twitter Integration
 
-Connect your Twitter to automatically thank new backers who contribute to your Collective! To do so, go to your Collective page, click on the gear icon, and head to the **Connected Accounts** page.
+Connect your Twitter to automatically thank new supporters who contribute to your Collective! To do so, go to your Collective page, click on the gear icon, and head to the **Connected Accounts** page.
 
 ![](../.gitbook/assets/collectives_integrations_connected-accounts.png)
 

collectives/quick-start-guide.md

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 ## You've got a Collective—awesome! Now what?
 
-Once you have a Collective, you can start submitting expenses, edit your page content, and create events for your community right away.
+Once you have a Collective, you can start submitting expenses, edit your page content, and create events for your community right away. 
 
 In order to receive money or pay out expenses, you need a [Fiscal Host](../fiscal-hosts/fiscal-hosts.md). Whether you have a Fiscal Host yet or not, here are some steps you can take to get your Collective started.
 
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ Check the many ways you can export your data on [Data Export](data-export.md) an
 
 ### 4. Start tracking expenses
 
-[Submit expenses](../expenses-and-getting-paid/submitting-expenses.md) through your Collective, so others can see where money will be spent \(even if you don't have any yet\). This builds trust with potential Backers.
+[Submit expenses](../expenses-and-getting-paid/submitting-expenses.md) through your Collective, so others can see where money will be spent \(even if you don't have any yet\). This builds trust with potential supporters.
 
 ### 5. Spread the word
 

collectives/widgets.md

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ Result:
 
 Here is an [example](https://medium.com/open-collective/open-collective-donate-button-e7e6d5965b2c).
 
-## Show Backers & Sponsors
+## Show Supporters & Sponsors
 
 Use this script:
 
@@ -69,5 +69,5 @@ Example:
 ## Related:
 
 * Website [badge](../financial-contributors/website-badge.md) showing the Collectives you back
-* [Export SVGs](data-export.md) showing your backers, sponsors, or contributors
+* [Export SVGs](data-export.md) showing your supporters, sponsors, or contributors
 

fiscal-hosts/fiscal-hosts.md

@@ -6,11 +6,11 @@
 
 Fiscal hosting enables Collectives to transact financially without needing to legally incorporate. In other contexts, this is sometimes called _fiscal sponsorship_.
 
-A fiscal host is a legal company or individual who holds a Collective’s funds in their bank account and can generate invoices and receipts for backers and sponsors. You can think of a fiscal host as an umbrella organization for the Collectives in it.
+A fiscal host is a legal company or individual who holds a Collective’s funds in their bank account and can generate invoices and receipts for supporters and sponsors. You can think of a fiscal host as an umbrella organization for the Collectives in it.
 
 The fiscal host is responsible for taxes, accounting, compliance, financial admin, and paying expenses approved by the Collective’s core contributors \(admins\).
 
-The Open Collective platform makes the job of fiscal hosts a lot easier by providing our software platform for tracking budgets and expenses, generating reports, and automating bookkeeping. Fiscal hosts have a dashboard where they can see their Collectives and perform common actions.
+The Open Collective platform makes the job of fiscal hosts a lot easier by providing our software platform for tracking budgets and expenses, generating reports, and automating bookkeeping. Fiscal hosts have a dashboard where they can see their Collectives and perform common actions. 
 
 By sharing a host, Collectives are effectively mutualizing the cost and overhead of having a legal entity.
 

internal/queries/emails.md

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 Queries to get an export of email addresses from the database for various communications.
 
-## Get Backers \(name, email, totalDonations, lastDonation\) of a collective
+## Get Supporters \(name, email, totalDonations, lastDonation\) of a collective
 
 ```sql
 WITH constants AS (

product/product.md

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Automatic financial reporting and accountability.
 
 ## [Tiers](../collectives/tiers-goals.md)
 
-Levels or rewards for backers and sponsors.
+Levels or rewards for supporters and sponsors.
 
 ## [Events](../collectives/events.md)
 

product/security.md

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ description: >-
 Security is one of the biggest considerations in everything we do. If you have any questions after reading this, or encounter any issues, please [let us know](mailto:[email protected]).
 {% endhint %}
 
-## Vulnerability disclosure and reward program
+## Vulnerability disclosure and reward program 
 
 We believe that no technology is perfect and that working with skilled security researchers is crucial in identifying weaknesses. Our bounty program is a way to reward the security researchers that help us with this task. We also publish [postmortems](https://github.com/opencollective/opencollective/tree/main/postmortem) to document issues once they are fixed.
 
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ To learn more, see our [security bounty policy](https://github.com/opencollectiv
 
 ### Credit cards
 
-Open Collective doesn't store any credit card number, we're instead relying on our partner [Stripe](https://stripe.com) - a secure solution that is widely adopted by the industry. If our systems are compromised, we can't loose your credit card number because we simply don't have it.
+Open Collective doesn't store any credit card number, we're instead relying on our partner [Stripe](https://stripe.com) - a secure solution that is widely adopted by the industry. If our systems are compromised, we can't lose your credit card number because we simply don't have it.
 
 [Learn more](https://stripe.com/docs/security/stripe) about Stripe's security.
 
@@ -34,5 +34,5 @@ According to [Auth0](https://auth0.com/blog/is-passwordless-authentication-more-
 
 > Passwordless authentication, by its nature, eliminates the problem of using an unsafe password. This means that one of the biggest user errors is taken out of your login. Not only is passwordless authentication safe to use, it might even be safer than a traditional username + password login.
 
-[Lear more](https://docs.opencollective.com/help/product/log-in-system#about-security) about our login system.
+[Learn more](https://docs.opencollective.com/help/product/log-in-system#about-security) about our login system.