Software Freedom Conservancy is an essential organization to free and open source software. We are the home of over 30 projects like Git, Inkscape, Samba, Wine, Selenium, the Linux Compliance project, PyPy and Sugar Labs just to name a few. Conservancy is a "fiscal sponsor plus", providing everything that our projects need in a nonprofit. We help our projects defend their trademarks, manage their assets, handle donations, improve their community management, manage risk and assist them with all legal needs they may have. While we do receive a portion of the revenue donated to our projects, we keep that number low enough that it doesn't even pay for a single staff member. Help us show that you care about community-focused free software and help us be able to continue our charitable work. Donating to Conservancy is a great non-technical way to contribute to the cause.

For the first time, we're launching a Supporter program. For an annual donation of $120, you can download an official Supporter card and receive a Conservancy t-shirt[1]. If this is out of reach, please donate at whatever level you can - it makes a big difference to us to know that you support us, and a little goes a long way.

In addition to supporting our projects,

• we share our expertise across communities. We speak at many conferences, and publish materials to increase understanding about the organizational, community and legal issues around free and open source software. We advocate for free an open source software and provide education around that mission. We form partnerships across our communities to work more effectively. Check out copyleft.org or sign up to join the tax exempt working group.
• we seek to solve problems for the public through free and open source software. We've launched a nonprofits accounting project to help all nonprofits (in free software and in other fields) avoid paying millions of dollars in licensing fees for subpar accounting software.
• as part of Conservancy's partnership in the program, we support Karen as a co-organizer of the Free and Open Source Software Outreach Program.
• we encourage and support our employees to do volunteer work in the community. For example, Bradley and Karen together host an oggcast called Free as in Freedom which discusses important legal and policy issues in open source and free software.

As an organization, we try to do do everything transparently; even our internal policies are published and available for scrutiny.

Please join our Supporter program and spread software freedom!