contributing
v.v. giving money, time, or ideas to help something succeed. You use this when you are one of several people helping to reach a goal.
v. giving or supplying something, such as money or effort, alongside others to achieve a common result. Often implies being a partial cause or factor in a larger outcome.
She is contributing her time to the local charity.
Several different factors are contributing to the current rise in global energy prices.
By contributing original research to the field, the young scientist helped shift the consensus on how these specific proteins interact during cellular division.
Often used with the preposition 'to'. When used as a present participle, it can function as an adjective or as part of a continuous verb tense.
contributing for the projectcontributing to the projectThe verb typically takes the preposition 'to' when identifying the recipient or goal of the contribution.