Gasy Animal Aid
A shelter that rescues street animals, nurses them back to health and finds them a family. Multilingual website, adoption and support pages, gallery of the animals cared for.
Visit gasyanimalaid.orgFondation Simafri
A free, managed website for your nonprofit
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.
100% free for eligible nonprofits
Fully managed by Simafri
Since 2012: creating and managing websites
Your website belongs to the nonprofit
Our commitment
Why Fondation Simafri gives websites to nonprofits
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
Examples of websites from Fondation Simafri beneficiaries
Websites created by Fondation Simafri, then hosted, secured and kept up to date by our teams.
NCS Tapera
Núcleo de Cultura e Comunicação Social, in the countryside of Alagoas: community radio, library, capoeira and craft groups, support for family farming.
Visit ncstapera.org.br
Fruitful Tree Foundation
A Dutch foundation supporting vulnerable families in Moroto, Uganda: meals and food parcels, sponsored schooling and access to clean water. Project pages, news, photo gallery and ways to help.
Visit fruitfultreefoundation.com
Amautisme
The Association Malgache pour l'Autisme and its Centre Vintsy: personalised support for children with autism. Information pages, activities, sponsorship and donation.
Visit amautisme.orgAll included, free of charge
What your nonprofit receives
The same service as our paying customers, given by the Foundation. A complete website, managed end to end.
Fondation Simafri
Nonprofit website, fully managed
Freefor eligible nonprofits
- Professional showcase website, looks great on every screen
- Hosting, SSL certificate and security included
- Built on your nonprofit's domain name, which you keep
- Email addresses at your domain name (contact@your-nonprofit.org)
- Content updates taken care of: you write to us, we handle it
- Careful Google search optimization (SEO)
- Readable by AI systems (structured data)
- The website and the domain belong to the nonprofit
Eligibility
The conditions to benefit from it
The program is reserved for nonprofits. To apply, you must meet these conditions.
- A legally registered nonprofit You provide your supporting documents (your declaration receipt and the nonprofit's bylaws).
- A cause of general interest Inclusion, health, education, disability, social action, culture, environment. Political or divisive causes are not eligible.
- A single point of contact for the project One reachable person within the nonprofit, who follows the project with us from the start through to going online.
- Your own domain name The website is built on your nonprofit's domain name, which you keep. An active domain is a sign of a genuine nonprofit that is still up and running.
Simple
How to apply, in 3 steps
1. You apply
You introduce your nonprofit through the form and check your eligibility. A few minutes is all it takes.
2. We review your application
We check the conditions and your documents, then confirm that we will take your project on.
3. We create and publish
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.
Not a nonprofit?
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 offerA free website for nonprofits, genuinely managed
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.
Free does not mean "you are on your own"
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.
Who can benefit from the program?
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.
A website built to be found: on Google and by AI
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.
The website belongs to your nonprofit
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.
Frequently asked questions
Is the website really free?
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.
Which nonprofits can benefit from it?
Legally declared nonprofits, carrying a cause of general interest, that have a single point of contact to follow the project.
Does the website belong to the nonprofit?
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.
What does the donated website include?
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.
How long until the website is online?
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.
I am not a nonprofit: can I benefit from it?
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.