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C'est nous qui contribuons à la fête du quartier.

C'est nous qui contribuons à la fête du quartier.
It is we who are contributing to the neighborhood party.
From Lesson 441:Emphasizing the subject (c'est... qui)·French

Questions & Answers about C'est nous qui contribuons à la fête du quartier.

Why is the verb contribuons conjugated for nous if the subject of the clause is qui?
In French cleft sentences like c'est ... qui, the relative pronoun qui takes on the grammatical person of the noun or pronoun it replaces. Since qui stands in for nous, the verb must agree with nous and take the first-person plural ending.
Since nous is plural, why don't we say Ce sont nous?
The expression c'est stays singular before most stressed pronouns, even plural ones like nous and vous. The only exception is the third-person plural, where you generally change it to ce sont eux or ce sont elles.
Could I say C'est nous que contribuons instead?
No, you must use qui. In French, qui acts as the subject of the verb in the relative clause (the ones doing the contributing). The pronoun que is only used when it acts as the direct object of the following verb.
Why do we use à la here instead of pour la?
The verb contribuer (to contribute) strongly pairs with the preposition à when mentioning what you are contributing to (an event, a cause, a project). Therefore, it must be contribuer à la fête.

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