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 ### How is it different from other platforms?
 
-[Open Collective is different.](product/comparison.md) It's fully transparent \(you can see where money comes from and where it goes\), and designed for ongoing communities, not individual creators or one-off campaigns.
+[Open Collective is different.](product/comparison.md) It's fully transparent \(you can see where money comes from and where it goes\) and is designed for ongoing communities, not individual creators or one-off campaigns.
 
 ### How much does it cost?
 
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-While the Internet is a great tool for helping people collaborate, it is still extremely difficult for groups to collect funds and use them transparently. As a result, we see initiatives, projects, and movements popping up here and there only to disappear quickly due to lack of funds. Imagine how many wonderful things didn't happen because funding - which is arguably the oxygen for most organizations - is difficult to sustain. Without an easy way to raise and manage finances, most of the ideas that can change the world are rarely able to break open from seed, let alone grow into a full-fledged tree.
+While the Internet is a great tool for helping people collaborate, it is still extremely difficult for groups to collect funds and use them transparently. As a result, we see initiatives, projects, and movements popping up here and there only to disappear quickly due to lack of funds. Imagine how many wonderful things didn't happen because funding \(which is arguably the oxygen for most organizations\) is difficult to sustain. Without an easy way to raise and manage finances, most of the ideas that can change the world are rarely able to break open from seed, let alone grow into a full-fledged tree.
 
 To be able to operate, meetups, open-source projects, parent associations, neighborhood associations, pet projects, clubs, unions, movements, non-profits, business incubators - all are either forced to use a physical glass jar, asking a sponsor to directly pay for their expenses, or front the huge overhead of setting up and managing a corporation or a non-profit. Even if they manage to achieve it in a way that is neither inefficient nor opaque, it is overkill.