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Required. All fields marked * are required. Free For Charity's services are free and demand is very high, so to review every application fairly we can't make exceptions for missing items. Read the help page before you start: it explains every question, why we ask it, and how to get each item for free. Save every answer in a Word document or Google Doc first, then copy it here, so nothing is lost if you have to fix something and resubmit. Help: https://freeforcharity.org/application-guide/
Required. We use this to find your application and to name your website. Please enter the same name in the Company Name box of your account details. Help: https://freeforcharity.org/application-guide/#org-name
Required. We support nonprofit and charitable activities throughout the legal lifecycle. It is however important for us to know your current legal status. Please choose from the selectable options. Help: https://freeforcharity.org/application-guide/#legal-status
Required. Format XX-XXXXXXX (for example, FFC's EIN is 46-2471893). An EIN is free from the IRS online in a few minutes: https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employed/apply-for-an-employer-identification-number-ein-online . Never pay anyone for one. Pre-501(c)(3) groups that do not have an EIN yet may enter NONE; help with IRS and state filings is a service we provide. Help: https://freeforcharity.org/application-guide/#ein
Required. Help: https://freeforcharity.org/application-guide/#mission
Required. The year your organization started (e.g. 2015), shown on your website. Not sure of the exact year? Use the year your group first began operating. Help: https://freeforcharity.org/application-guide/#founding-year
Other names or abbreviations your org is known by (comma-separated). Help: https://freeforcharity.org/application-guide/#alternate-names
Optional for pre-501(c)(3). The 'shared' link from your Candid profile that opens without a login. Leave blank if you don't have one yet. Help: https://freeforcharity.org/application-guide/#candid
Only if you have one. Candid (GuideStar) builds profiles from IRS 501(c)(3) records, so most pre-501(c)(3) groups do not have one yet; leave this blank if you don't. If you do, paste your profile link, e.g. https://www.guidestar.org/profile/46-2471893 (FFC's). Help: https://freeforcharity.org/application-guide/#candid
Required. Your charity's public Facebook Page, e.g. https://www.facebook.com/yourcharity — the Page category must be Nonprofit Organization. Personal profiles do not qualify. Help: https://freeforcharity.org/application-guide/#charity-social
Required. Your charity's LinkedIn organization page, e.g. https://www.linkedin.com/company/yourcharity — a company/nonprofit Page, not a personal profile. Help: https://freeforcharity.org/application-guide/#charity-social
Your charity's Instagram profile. Optional. Help: https://freeforcharity.org/application-guide/#other-social
Your charity's X / Twitter profile. Optional. Help: https://freeforcharity.org/application-guide/#other-social
Your charity's YouTube channel. Optional. Help: https://freeforcharity.org/application-guide/#other-social
Required. A working LinkedIn profile link for this officer, e.g. https://www.linkedin.com/in/yourname/. The profile does not need much public information, but it must exist and open. Why and how: https://freeforcharity.org/application-guide/#officer-linkedin Help: https://freeforcharity.org/application-guide/#officer-linkedin
Required. A working LinkedIn profile link for this officer, e.g. https://www.linkedin.com/in/yourname/. The profile does not need much public information, but it must exist and open. Why and how: https://freeforcharity.org/application-guide/#officer-linkedin Help: https://freeforcharity.org/application-guide/#officer-linkedin
Required. A working LinkedIn profile link for this officer, e.g. https://www.linkedin.com/in/yourname/. The profile does not need much public information, but it must exist and open. Why and how: https://freeforcharity.org/application-guide/#officer-linkedin Help: https://freeforcharity.org/application-guide/#officer-linkedin
Required. Your team - list at least 3 people who lead or support this project, with each person's role. You don't need a formal board yet. Help: https://freeforcharity.org/application-guide/#team-members
Required. e.g. Founder, Executive Director, Program Lead, Volunteer Coordinator, Advisor, Treasurer Help: https://freeforcharity.org/application-guide/#team-members
Optional. Link to this person's LinkedIn profile. Help: https://freeforcharity.org/application-guide/#team-members
Required. Second team member. Help: https://freeforcharity.org/application-guide/#team-members
Required. e.g. Founder, Executive Director, Program Lead, Advisor, Treasurer Help: https://freeforcharity.org/application-guide/#team-members
Optional. Link to this person's LinkedIn profile. Help: https://freeforcharity.org/application-guide/#team-members
Required. Third team member (minimum three). Help: https://freeforcharity.org/application-guide/#team-members
Required. e.g. Program Lead, Advisor, Treasurer, Volunteer Coordinator Help: https://freeforcharity.org/application-guide/#team-members
Optional. Link to this person's LinkedIn profile. Help: https://freeforcharity.org/application-guide/#team-members
Optional - add a fourth person if you have one. Help: https://freeforcharity.org/application-guide/#team-members
Optional. Help: https://freeforcharity.org/application-guide/#team-members
Optional. Link to this person's LinkedIn profile. Help: https://freeforcharity.org/application-guide/#team-members
Optional - a fifth person. Help: https://freeforcharity.org/application-guide/#team-members
Optional. Help: https://freeforcharity.org/application-guide/#team-members
Optional. Link to this person's LinkedIn profile. Help: https://freeforcharity.org/application-guide/#team-members
Required. These first steps are complex and best done by phone. Please provide a working US phone number in this format 1-111-111-1111 Help: https://freeforcharity.org/application-guide/#contacts
Required. Your technical contact maintains your charity's website. We invite this GitHub account to your site's repository so they can edit it. Enter just the username, e.g. janedoe. No account yet? Create a free one at https://github.com/signup. What the maintainer role involves: https://ffcadmin.org/site-owner/ (training track: https://ffcadmin.org/site-owner/training/). Help: https://freeforcharity.org/application-guide/#maintainer
e.g. volunteer webmaster, board secretary, executive director. Helps us tailor the site-owner training to them. Help: https://freeforcharity.org/application-guide/#maintainer
Required. Please provide a specific time of day, as well as the time zone best to call you. For example, ‘any day after 5 PM EST’ or “M-F 9M-5PM MST” “Any day before 7PM Arizona Time” Help: https://freeforcharity.org/application-guide/#contacts
Required. The phone number shown publicly in your site footer. No charity line yet? Use the best public contact number for now. Help: https://freeforcharity.org/application-guide/#public-contact
Required. The email shown publicly in your footer. No real charity email yet? Use a free charityname@outlook.com for now; upgrade to info@charityname.org once your domain is live. Help: https://freeforcharity.org/application-guide/#public-contact
Required. We show your location to at least the city/state level (e.g. Raleigh, NC) so donors know where you serve. Help: https://freeforcharity.org/application-guide/#public-contact
Required. Enter just the domain, e.g. yourcharity.org (no https:// or www). Already have a website? Enter its domain so we build alongside it and never break it. No domain yet? Enter the one you would like; we name your site after it and check it is available before registering it for you. Help: https://freeforcharity.org/application-guide/#domain
Required. Help: https://freeforcharity.org/application-guide/#domain
e.g. GoDaddy, Namecheap, Google/Squarespace, Network Solutions. Leave blank if you do not own a domain yet. Help: https://freeforcharity.org/application-guide/#domain
Paste the full link if your charity already has a public site or page, including free ones without your own domain: e.g. a Canva site (my.canva.site/...), brand.page, Wix (yourname.wixsite.com), Google Sites, Squarespace, Linktree or a Carrd page. We reuse its content and make sure nothing breaks. Leave blank if you have none. Help: https://freeforcharity.org/application-guide/#current-site
Required. Help: https://freeforcharity.org/application-guide/#current-site
Only if you answered Yes to 'Do you have Web Hosting?'. Enter your hosting company's web address, e.g. https://godaddy.com or https://wix.com. Leave blank if you have no hosting. Help: https://freeforcharity.org/application-guide/#current-site
Required. Single Page = we design and build your complete site from our template (most charities, and all pre-501c3s without a site). Footer-Only = we add the FFC footer and compliance layer to your existing designed website. Help: https://freeforcharity.org/application-guide/#template
Required. A short slogan shown in your site title and share cards. Help: https://freeforcharity.org/application-guide/#site-content
Required. Describes your charity for search engines and page metadata. Help: https://freeforcharity.org/application-guide/#site-content
Required. Used for social-media share cards. Falls back to the site description if blank. Help: https://freeforcharity.org/application-guide/#site-content
Required. Title of your first program or service. Replaces the sample Programs cards. Help: https://freeforcharity.org/application-guide/#programs
Required. A sentence describing program 1. Help: https://freeforcharity.org/application-guide/#programs
Title of your second program or service. Help: https://freeforcharity.org/application-guide/#programs
A sentence describing program 2. Help: https://freeforcharity.org/application-guide/#programs
Title of your third program or service. Help: https://freeforcharity.org/application-guide/#programs
A sentence describing program 3. Help: https://freeforcharity.org/application-guide/#programs
Keywords for search engines, e.g. animal rescue, foster, adoption, volunteer. Help: https://freeforcharity.org/application-guide/#branding
Your primary brand color, used as the site theme color. A hex code like #0567B1 is ideal. If you do not have one, a color name (e.g. navy blue) or a link to your brand or style guide is also fine. Help: https://freeforcharity.org/application-guide/#branding
Optional. Have a logo image already online? Paste its link. Otherwise skip this: once your site is created, your website maintainer gets a first GitHub issue, "Add your logo", that shows how to upload it. Help: https://freeforcharity.org/application-guide/#branding
Strongly encouraged; optional for pre-501(c)(3) groups that cannot get one yet. Zeffy is free and keeps 100% of donations. How to set it up: https://ffcadmin.org/guides/zeffy/ Help: https://freeforcharity.org/application-guide/#donations-volunteers
Strongly encouraged; optional for pre-501(c)(3) groups that cannot get one yet. Idealist is free and lists your volunteer opportunities. How to set it up: https://ffcadmin.org/guides/idealist/ Help: https://freeforcharity.org/application-guide/#donations-volunteers
Required. Your site lists your Chair, Secretary and Treasurer by name and role so donors can see who leads the charity. Help: https://freeforcharity.org/application-guide/#site-leaders
Required. Shown on your website with the role. Help: https://freeforcharity.org/application-guide/#site-leaders
Required. Shown on your website with the role. Help: https://freeforcharity.org/application-guide/#site-leaders
Optional. Your Chair, Secretary and Treasurer are asked above. Add anyone else who agrees to appear, e.g. "Jane Doe - Vice Chair". Help: https://freeforcharity.org/application-guide/#site-leaders
Required. Free For Charity websites show the charity's three officers publicly. We cannot accept an application unless all three agree. Help: https://freeforcharity.org/application-guide/#site-leaders
Required. Help: https://freeforcharity.org/application-guide/#techsoup-email
Required. Help: https://freeforcharity.org/application-guide/#techsoup-email
Required. Help: https://freeforcharity.org/application-guide/#techsoup-email
Required. AI is part of the modern nonprofit toolkit — tell us what your team already uses. Help: https://freeforcharity.org/application-guide/#certifications
Required. Whether your team is on free tiers or paid subscriptions. Help: https://freeforcharity.org/application-guide/#certifications
Required. US territories (Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, Northern Mariana Islands) count as US. Help: https://freeforcharity.org/application-guide/#certifications
Required. Your site launches with six policy pages prepared for you and branded to your organization: Privacy Policy, Cookie Policy, Terms of Service, Donation Policy, Vulnerability Disclosure Policy and Security Acknowledgements. They go live showing the public contact email and address (city and state) you give in this application. Ticking this box confirms your organization accepts them as its initial policies; you can ask for changes at any time. Help: https://freeforcharity.org/application-guide/#certifications
Required. Read them at https://freeforcharity.org/terms-of-service/ — including the full-stack commitment (domain, email, and website managed by FFC as one program). Help: https://freeforcharity.org/application-guide/#certifications
