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DocuSign for Nonprofits

Accelerate impact with automated processes

Free up resources to focus on driving your mission. Digitize paperwork, automate processes and create delightful donor experiences.

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Advance your goals

  • Help more clients faster

    Speed up the intake process for funding distribution by digitizing consent forms, waivers, HIPAA forms and other agreements.

  • Simplify your digital experiences

    Increase fundraising effectiveness by offering donors and volunteers convenient, mobile-friendly experiences that meet accessibility standards.

  • Support compliance

    Demonstrate regulatory compliance using an automatic time-stamped history of all document and signature activities.

How you can use DocuSign

From HR onboarding to major giving, DocuSign solutions help accelerate key business processes for nonprofits, freeing up your staff to focus on your mission.

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  • Development

    Streamline donor agreement processes to optimize gift processing, approvals and stewardship.

    - Donation requests

    - Fundraising forms

    - Statement of gift intent

  • Program operations

    Speed up client intake and management with automated agreement processes.

    - Beneficiary intake package

    - Information disclosures

    - Waivers

  • Grants management

    Automate application creation and track progress across the grant agreement lifecycle.

    - Application forms

    - Grant approval agreements

    - Grant reports


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eSignature for nonprofits

Securely send and sign agreements from virtually anywhere and any device while maintaining a detailed audit trail.

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Additional DocuSign products for nonprofits

  • CLM

    Automate the grant, major gift or vendor agreement lifecycle with document generation, collaboration, redlining, workflows and a central agreement repository.

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  • Notary

    Securely send, sign and notarize agreements remotely–saving time and reducing the risk of identity fraud.

  • Admin Tools

    Govern your organization's use of DocuSign, starting with centralized user management and self-serve single sign-on configuration.

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DocuSign Nonprofit Solution Overview

Learn more about DocuSign and why more than 2,000 nonprofits use it to digitize paperwork and accelerate their impact.

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10 Reasons to Adopt E-Signature at Your Nonprofit

Learn how to use e-signature technology to further your mission, boost efficiency and reduce risk.

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FAQs for nonprofits

  • The US Federal ESIGN Act defines an "electronic signature" as an electronic sound, symbol, or process, attached to or logically associated with a contract or other record and executed or adopted by a person with the intent to sign the record. Electronic signatures have been used for electronically signing offer letters, sales contracts, permission slips, rental/lease agreements, liability waivers, financial documents, etc. They are legally enforceable in most business and personal transactions in almost every country in the world. Learn more in our eSignature Legality Guide.

  • With DocuSign eSignature, you can upload documents in formats such as Microsoft Word, PDF, or other common formats. You can upload documents from your computer or popular file-sharing sites like Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, and OneDrive.

  • Yes, just register for our DocuSign eSignature free account. Always free to signers, eSignature lets you sign documents from almost anywhere, on most devices.

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