Free Fax Service Offered to Charities

August 26, 1999 | Read Time: 1 minute

A new program allows charities to send free fax messages to large numbers of people by using the Internet — and bypassing expensive long-distance telephone lines.

Fax4Free.com is a Los Angeles company that allows people to use the Internet to send and receive free fax messages within the United States. So-called broadcast faxing — sending the same fax to many different places — is a premium service for which there is a charge of 6 cents per page, but through the company’s new program, non-profit organizations with more than 25 members can sign up to send broadcast faxes free.

The company makes some of its money by charging for advertising it puts on faxes sent through the service. The content pages of the faxes that charities send will not include any advertising, but advertisements will appear in the left- and right-hand margins of the cover page.

FOR MORE INFORMATION: Go to http://www.fax4free.com.

About the Author

NICOLE WALLACE

Features Editor

Nicole Wallace is features editor of the Chronicle of Philanthropy. She has written about innovation in the nonprofit world, charities’ use of data to improve their work and to boost fundraising, advanced technologies for social good, and hybrid efforts at the intersection of the nonprofit and for-profit sectors, such as social enterprise and impact investing.Nicole spearheaded the Chronicle’s coverage of Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts on the Gulf Coast and reported from India on the role of philanthropy in rebuilding after the South Asian tsunami. She started at the Chronicle in 1996 as an editorial assistant compiling The Nonprofit Handbook.Before joining the Chronicle, Nicole worked at the Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs and served in the inaugural class of the AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps.A native of Columbia, Pa., she holds a bachelor’s degree in foreign service from Georgetown University.