# Donating to OSS Projects
## Why donate to OSS Projects via the *tea* Protocol?
Donating to OSS projects via the ***tea*** protocol allows you to directly support the development and maintenance of open-source software that you rely on and appreciate. Donations also affect dependencies by trickling down to them, providing a strong foundation for software to be built upon.
Donations via the ***tea*** protocol provide you with a way to track and audit donations that either you or others made to any OSS project. As all donations are stored on the blockchain, donors automatically receive on-chain recognition as their donation is visible for other community members to see. This transparency and accountability is very important to both users and package maintainers and is made possible by the power of the immutable ledger which the blockchain provides.
## How to donate to OSS Projects on the *tea* protocol
To donate TEA to a project of your choosing, follow these steps:
1. Navigate to the Projects Leaderboard and click on the project you would like to donate to.
2. Click on "Make a Donation" button and input donation amount.
3. Wait for the transaction to be confirmed.
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