Tools like Valpero should not be a barrier for organizations doing important work. A nonprofit running a resource site for people in crisis cannot afford for that site to go down unnoticed. An open source maintainer serving thousands of developers deserves the same reliability signals as a funded startup.
We are a small team, and this program is small by design. We review each application ourselves. We are not running an automated approval flow, and we are not trying to generate press coverage from this. We just think it is the right thing to do.