Blender Foundations 2024 FundraiserNovember 18th, 2024Press ReleasesFrancesco Siddi html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"AMSTERDAM, Netherlands The Blender Foundation today announced its latest fundraising campaign. This campaign, themed Join the 2 percent, aims to substantially increase the amount of incoming donations to support the continued development and maintenance of the beloved free and open-source 3D creation software.Blender is free for everyone. However, developing and maintaining the project is not without cost. These costs are solely covered by donations from thousands of individuals and several corporations. While having a good relationship with corporations is important, individual donations from users are crucial, as they allow Blender to remain an independent community project with development focus on end-user benefits.Blender is massively popular: 20 million downloads were registered in 2023. Understandably, most people are not in the position to financially support the project, but its reasonable to estimate that around 2% of the users have benefited from Blender in one way or another. Its to these people that the Foundation wishes to reach out: join the 2% of users that donate to Blender and keep it free for everyone!About the Blender FoundationThe Blender Foundation is a public benefit organization with the mission to provide everyone access to the worlds best 3D CG technology as free/open source tools, by facilitating and supporting the projects at blender.org. Blender is being used by millions of artists, designers, filmmakers, and professionals worldwide. The foundation is committed to ensuring that Blender remains a powerful, free and open-source tool for creative expression and innovation.Contact:Ton Roosendaal, Blender Foundation[emailprotected]