The crowdsourced-support program for independent FOSS devs opens doors to corporate sponsorship.
GitHub Sponsors wants to make sure independent open source developers can get paid for what they do, so the project has been expanded by adding corporate patrons.
Until fairly recently there wasn't a tried and true way for an open source software developer to make money designing and maintaining an open source project without getting a job working for a large open source vendor, which meant writing code for somebody else's applications and having no control over the direction of the project.
This left small independent developers out in the cold or working for peanuts. This funding issue even affected some projects that were essential to enterprise IT users -- often with disastrous effect.