1ec5 created an issue (openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website#6517)
There’s a “Make a Donation” link in fine print in the lower-right corner of the
slippy map on the homepage. [A recent forum
post](https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/followup-questions-to-2025-gm/135628/41)
points out that it’s difficult to find and even difficult for some to see. I
don’t have specific traffic statistics, but I guess I’d agree with that
anecdotally. Can we find room for a Donate link in the navigation bar at the
top, maybe between Help and About?
In the past month, as I’ve introduced OSM mapping to laypeople and GIS people,
several times someone has asked something along the lines of: Are you a
nonprofit? If so, how come you don’t have a Donate button on the homepage or
any mention of it on the About page? They seem to expect it in the navigation
bar, since that’s where most nonprofit sites have it. One of the pages in the
navigation bar, Copyright, does have a donation link as of #5132, but it only
helps people who land on the copyright page from map attribution. No one else
would expect it to be on that page.
A Donate link wouldn’t need to be any flashier than the other links in the
navigation bar. It wouldn’t be a donation drive, just something to get users
where they want to go. We can probably remove the existing “Make a Donation”
link to avoid redundancy. That would also avoid suggesting that the donations
go directly to the contributors.
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