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<p style="margin: 1.2em 0px !important;">[<a
href="https://sfconservancy.org/news/2018/nov/20/90k-donation-match/">Read
this announcement on our web site</a>]</p>
<p style="margin: 1.2em 0px !important;">Today, Software Freedom
Conservancy announces the launch of its most ambitious match
challenge ever, generously brought forward by <a
href="https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/">Private Internet
Access</a> and bolstered by a cadre of passionate individual
donors. All donations up to $90,000 will be matched dollar for
dollar until January 15. <b><a
href="https://sfconservancy.org/supporter/">Sign up as a
Supporter today to have your donation count twice, but
please act soon. The end of the year comes up fast!</a></b></p>
<p style="margin: 1.2em 0px !important;">Conservancy is a scrappy
organization that fiscally sponsors nearly 50 free software
projects by helping them with accounting, event planning, paying
developers and defending their trademarks. Conservancy is also
the leading organization for ensuring compliance with copyleft
licenses. We work for the future of software freedom by helping
projects stay community-driven, by fostering relationships with
those who are new to free software and by building a software
freedom movement where everyone feels welcome. We can’t do this
important work without the support of people like you, who read
our news feed and blog, who have opinions about where free
software should be in five years, who help your friends and
family find free software solutions. We can’t do this without
your moral and financial support.</p>
<p style="margin: 1.2em 0px !important;">Conservancy made a lot of
progress this year in our quest to provide a fantastic “back
office” for community-driven free software projects. This year
Conservancy brought in seven new member projects—-four that help
free software developers write more great free software and
three that help introduce new people to free software. We helped
our projects run events and hackfests, set up grants to pay for
development, sort through contracts and reimburse travel to
critical free software events all over the world. We worked with
companies on GPL compliance, commented on trends in the industry
and talked to people at dozens of different events this year.
With your help, we’ll be doing more of the same, while also
building more infrastructure for our member projects, piloting a
<a href="https://2019.copyleftconf.org/">brand new event to talk
about copyleft licenses</a> and adding a fifth person to our
full-time staff.</p>
<p style="margin: 1.2em 0px !important;">We are proud to say that
our steadfast matching donors keep coming back. Thank you very
much to our one humble anonymous individual who has matched
donations <b>every year</b> for the last four years! Private
Internet Access also returns to support Conservancy with $50,000
for the third time this year! 2018 is very special because this
year, they are also joined by eight more passionate, individual
super-supporters. These individual donors led by free software
champion Molly de Blanc have pledged an additional $15,000,
making this year’s match our biggest one yet. </p>
<p style="margin: 1.2em 0px !important;">Read more about what
Conservancy has achieved this past year thanks to your past
support. Donate now to help us make the most of this generous
match opportunity and make 2019 a great year for software
freedom. The matching funds expire in January, so if you can,
please donate <b>right away.</b></p>
<p style="margin: 1.2em 0px !important;">Conservancy is a
501(c)(3) non-profit organization. If you support us now, not
only do you help us meet the challenge grant but your
contribution is also deductible on your 2018 US taxes, to the
extent permitted by law. Please <a
href="https://sfconservancy.org/supporter/">act now and help
us continue supporting the free and open source software
projects you rely on every day</a>.</p>
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