Fondation Simafri
Fondation Simafri gives nonprofits a professional website, fully taken care of. We create it, host it, secure it and keep it up to date. You carry your mission, we carry the technology. The website belongs to your nonprofit.
Our commitment
My name is Simon. I am a French-Portuguese digital entrepreneur and an artificial intelligence expert. As a Christian, helping my neighbour is a sacred calling for me. So I wanted my craft to serve outside paid work as well: to offer our services to nonprofits working for the common good, to help those who help others.
That is how Fondation Simafri was born. It takes care of the creation, hosting, security and updates of its beneficiaries' websites, 100% free of charge, with the same teams that serve our paying clients.
Simon Vasconcelos Lee's personal websiteNonprofits supported
Websites created by Fondation Simafri, then hosted, secured and kept up to date by our teams.
A humanitarian association that helps the victims of major crises get back to a decent life and to independence: transport, housing, jobs, paperwork. Its trilingual website presents its work, its guides and its news.
Visit humanitarianchain.org
An association from Le Lamentin, in Guadeloupe, standing beside children with Down syndrome and their families: information, support, inclusion and respite. Its website explains trisomy 21, presents its actions and opens membership, donations and volunteering.
Visit noutoutenpowtan.fr
The Martinique association for the protection of companion animals and its shelter, the Maison du Chat in Fort-de-France. Its website presents the cats up for adoption, the ways to get involved and online donations.
Visit amdac-972.org
An association from Brittany that makes cycling an everyday way to get around in the countryside. Its website presents its work, its second-hand bike sales, the Cyclocrêpe ride and the town cycling survey.
Visit vallonsavelo.frAll included, free of charge
The same service as our paying customers, given by the Foundation. A complete website, managed end to end. Every day, we check your nonprofit's website; if needed, our team is alerted and steps in.
Eligibility
The program is reserved for nonprofits. To apply, you must meet these conditions.
Simple
You introduce your nonprofit through the form and check your eligibility. A few minutes is all it takes.
We check the conditions and your documents, then confirm that we will take your project on.
We build your website, put it online on your domain, and look after it from then on.
The Foundation supports a limited number of nonprofits each month, to do things properly.
The Foundation's free offer is reserved for nonprofits. If you are a business, a shop, a sole trader or a professional, Serenity by Simafri creates and manages your website with the same care, in an all-inclusive subscription.
Discover the Serenity by Simafri offerAre you a student, or launching a startup? The Foundation also offers a free VPS for students and startups.
Many nonprofits give up on having a real website: no budget, no one to look after it, the fear of ending up with a website that breaks down or grows old alone. Fondation Simafri exists to lift that obstacle. We give eligible nonprofits a free website, but above all a fully managed one: created, hosted, secured and maintained by our teams, while you devote yourself to your mission.
The usual "free" solutions leave you alone with the design, the updates, the security and the outages. Here it is the opposite: the Foundation takes care of the entire technical side, from the domain name to maintenance. Your nonprofit gets a professional online presence, at no cost and with no technical burden, with someone to talk to. We compared fifteen free website services for nonprofits: what each one takes on, and what is left to do.
The program is aimed at legally registered nonprofits carrying a cause of general interest: inclusion, health, education, disability, social action, culture or environment. A single point of contact within the nonprofit follows the project with us, and the website is built on the nonprofit's own domain name. The nonprofit's work has been visible online for at least a year.
As for our customers, every nonprofit website is built following search engine optimization (SEO) best practices and receives structured markup that helps artificial intelligence systems present your nonprofit accurately. Your cause gains visibility, right where people are searching.
What we build stays yours. The website is built on your nonprofit's domain name, which you keep: the Foundation hosts it, secures it and keeps it up to date, but you are never locked in to a provider.
Fondation Simafri also offers a free VPS to open source projects, managed for as long as the project lives.
Yes. For eligible nonprofits, Fondation Simafri covers the creation, hosting, security and management of the website, free of charge. The website belongs to the nonprofit.
Legally declared nonprofits, carrying a cause of general interest, that have a single point of contact to follow the project. The nonprofit's work has been visible online for at least a year.
Yes, the website belongs to you. It is built on your nonprofit's domain name, which you keep; Fondation Simafri hosts it, secures it and keeps it up to date.
A professional showcase website, hosting and the SSL certificate, email addresses at your domain name, updates, Google search optimization and markup readable by AI systems.
The Foundation supports a limited number of nonprofits each month, to do things properly. We get back to you as soon as we have reviewed your application.
The free offer is reserved for nonprofits. For a business, a shop or a sole trader, Serenity by Simafri offers the same quality of service in an all-inclusive subscription.
Fondation Simafri
Your nonprofit's application
Tell us about your nonprofit: we will check your eligibility and get back to you.
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Prefer email? Write to us at fondation@simafri.com.