Automate processes for a mission-first focus
The DocuSign Agreement Cloud for Nonprofits
Accelerate paperwork and advance your nonprofit’s work with DocuSign
No matter the size of your nonprofit, many teams are stretched thin and are asked to do more with less. Fundraising, mission delivery and hiring challenges have created more hurdles to overcome. DocuSign can help you free up your resources to focus on what matters most: working on the mission.
More than 2,000 nonprofits depend on the DocuSign Agreement Cloud for Nonprofit to work remotely and accelerate their impact. Automating paper-based processes with electronic signatures and digital forms simplifies the management of:
- Programs and volunteers
- Grants and major giving
- HR and tax filings
- Regulatory compliance
Benefits
Help more clients faster
Speed up the intake process to help more people and quickly get funds where they need to go. Use digital participant consent forms, waivers, HIPAA forms or any other agreement to do the most good.
Simplify the experience
Offer donors and volunteers the digital experience they expect with an easy-to-use, mobile-friendly digital process.
Increase compliance
Demonstrate regulatory compliance using an automatic time-stamped history of all document and signature activities.
Seattle Opera simplifies performance planning with DocuSign eSignature
Learn how the Seattle Opera reduces the time it takes to complete contracts from a months long process to just a few minutes.
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“We can send out all of our onboarding paperwork, then have new-hires fill it out and send it back to us—all through DocuSign.”Laura Martella
Director of Human Resources
San Diego Zoo -
“We went from taking 30 minutes to process each loan to 15 minutes per loan. That cut our process time in half, giving us the ability to more than double our output.”Joan Galaviz
Manager of Capital Operations
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“DocuSign is not going away because it's created efficiencies that we now rely on.Angela Pavlick
COA Coordinator & Staff Development
Assured Family Services
Featured products
DocuSign eSignature
Use the world’s #1 way to send and sign from almost anywhere, on most devices.
DocuSign CLM
Automate the contract lifecycle with document generation, collaboration, workflow, and a central agreement repository.
DocuSign Insight
Use AI-driven conceptual search, clause identification, and analytics across all of your contracts—post signature.
DocuSign Guided Forms by Smart IQ
Generate signature-ready, personalized agreements from “wizard-style” interviews to capture of complete signer information in person or online.
DocuSign Gen for Salesforce
Effortlessly prepare, sign and store agreements—all within Salesforce.
DocuSign Click
Capture consent to agreement terms—like terms of service and privacy policies—with a single click of a checkbox or button.
DocuSign Notary
Securely send, sign and notarize agreements remotely–saving time and reducing the risk of identity fraud.
Nonprofit use cases
Grants management
Major giving
Beneficiary onboarding
Membership management
Volunteer management
Procurement
Finance and Legal
Human Resources
Resources for Nonprofits
Solution Brief: DocuSign for Forests
Learn more about DocuSign for Forests which includes support for nonprofits protecting the world’s forests.
Blogs: Improving the Donor Experience in Nonprofit Fundraising
Learn how using technology can improve the donor experience during challenging times.
Industry Brief: DocuSign Nonprofit Solution Overview
Learn more about DocuSign and why more than 2,000 nonprofits use it to digitize paperwork and accelerate their impact.
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 trial. Always free to signers, eSignature lets you sign documents from almost anywhere, on most devices.