diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 3b9b0c690e..2715a9e308 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ Dedicated documentation pages:
 
 ## Contributing
 
-We strongly encourage the community to help us make improvements and to determine the future direction of the protocol. To report bugs within this package, please create an issue in this repository.
+We strongly recommend that the community help us make improvements and determine the future direction of the protocol. To report bugs within this package, please create an issue in this repository.
 
 Please read our [contribution guidelines](../../CONTRIBUTING.md) before getting started.
 
diff --git a/packages/monorepo-scripts/README.md b/packages/monorepo-scripts/README.md
index d2299b70db..452e0f94cc 100644
--- a/packages/monorepo-scripts/README.md
+++ b/packages/monorepo-scripts/README.md
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ This will list out any dependencies that differ in versions between packages.
 
 ## Contributing
 
-We strongly recommend the community to help us make improvements and to determine the future direction of the protocol. To report bugs within this package, please create an issue in this repository.
+We strongly recommend that the community help us make improvements and determine the future direction of the protocol. To report bugs within this package, please create an issue in this repository.
 
 Please read our [contribution guidelines](../../CONTRIBUTING.md) before getting started.
 
diff --git a/packages/subproviders/README.md b/packages/subproviders/README.md
index 5d74de9d17..9f01b44538 100644
--- a/packages/subproviders/README.md
+++ b/packages/subproviders/README.md
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ A subprovider that relays all signing related requests to a particular provider
 
 ## Contributing
 
-We strongly encourage the community to help us make improvements and to determine the future direction of the protocol. To report bugs within this package, please create an issue in this repository.
+We strongly recommend that the community help us make improvements and determine the future direction of the protocol. To report bugs within this package, please create an issue in this repository.
 
 Please read our [contribution guidelines](../../CONTRIBUTING.md) before getting started.
 
diff --git a/packages/website/README.md b/packages/website/README.md
index 53cdbd8d35..c050c6387e 100644
--- a/packages/website/README.md
+++ b/packages/website/README.md
@@ -7,6 +7,11 @@ This repository contains our website and [0x Portal DApp][portal-url] (over-the-
 [whitepaper-url]: https://0xproject.com/pdfs/0x_white_paper.pdf
 [portal-url]: https://0xproject.com/portal
 
+## Contributing
+
+We strongly recommend that the community help us make improvements and determine the future direction of the protocol. To report bugs within this package, please create an issue in this repository.
+
+Please read our [contribution guidelines](../../CONTRIBUTING.md) before getting started.
 
 ## Local Dev Setup