We support your freedom

The free software community has always thwarted the toughest challenges facing freedom in technology. We want to take a moment to thank the people and projects who have helped bring us to this point -- and ask for your support in the decades to come. Help us reach our fundraising goal of $400,000 USD by January 1, 2026. If only 10% of our monthly visitors to https://www.fsf.org/ donate $20 USD, we will reach our goal. We can't protect and continue the hard work of our predecessors without your help.

Not yet a member? For as little as $12 USD per month, you get great benefits and help us reach our goal!

The FSF can only continue the important work of protecting user freedom with support from the free software community. Share this message using the hashtag #FSFTable on social media networks.

Your donation funds:

• Campaigns which raise awareness of software freedom issues, such as Defective by Design, Email Self-Defense, End Software Patents, and Fight to Repair;
• The organization of events, conferences, meetups, workshops, and platforms where the free software community can meet;
• The GNU Project, an ongoing effort to provide a complete operating system licensed as free software;
• The Free Software Licensing and Compliance Lab, which ensures that free software distributors respect their obligations to pass on the freedoms to run, study, share, and modify the source code to all users;
• The certification of free hardware to help you choose a device that respects your freedom; and
• The Free Software Directory, a useful catalog of free software;
• The advancement and maintenance of sixty-three different resources, websites, and services for free software developers and users.

Here are some examples of what we've been working on recently:

Why other people support the FSF:

• "Just visited the FSF website and was reminded how important free software is." — Alexander Krylkov
• "I love and enjoy the GNU/Linux community, so why not join and donate?" — Braden Clancy
• "The Librephone project brought the FSF to my attention, but I also just hate the current state of software and ownership. Everything can be revoked and changed at any time. We all must do what we can to take back ownership and power for customers and labor." — Collin Finnie
• "Big tech selling my freedoms." — Dan Hackens
• "I believe in the cause and hope for a free future. A future where change in the world happens by the hands of community efforts for the betterment of society, not the whim of corporations for monopolization and capital. I want my children to be truly free." — Davy Jones
• "The FSF educated me on what it truly means to create free software." — Haiku M.
• "I advocate for and want to financially support the free software movement." — Iván Ávalos Díaz
• "To learn how to be safer online." — Jessica Shroyer
• "The ever encroaching greed of corporations is making software not fun anymore. Someone needs to fight back." — Sidik Abass

Share your reason with the hashtag #JoinFSF or email us at campaigns@fsf.org.