Support Radical, Autonomous Education

Traditional educational institutions often reproduce hierarchies, gatekeep knowledge, and prioritize profit over learning. Anarchist free universities challenge this model by creating non-hierarchical spaces for radical knowledge sharing where everyone is both teacher and learner.

This donation form makes it easy for supporters to fund autonomous learning communities that operate outside traditional academic structures. Whether you're contributing to workshop materials, meeting space costs, library resources, or mutual aid funds for learners, your donation directly supports accessible, community-driven education.

Why Paperform for Free University Fundraising?

Paperform is the ideal solution for grassroots educational collectives and nonprofit organizations that need flexible, professional donation forms without corporate bloat. Unlike traditional fundraising platforms that take large cuts or impose rigid structures, Paperform gives you:

• Full control over your donation experience with customizable fields, sliding scale options, and solidarity pricing
• Direct payment processing through Stripe, PayPal, or Square with transparent fees and no middleman
• Conditional logic to show different contribution options based on donor capacity
• Recurring donation support for sustaining ongoing operations and programming
• Beautiful, on-brand forms that reflect your community's values and aesthetics

For collectives managing multiple projects or chapters, you can easily create different forms for specific campaigns—from emergency mutual aid funds to new space deposits—and track everything in one place.

Automate Your Mutual Aid Workflows

Connect your donation form to Stepper, Paperform's AI-native automation tool, to streamline coordination without creating new hierarchies. When someone donates, automatically send personalized thank-you messages, add them to your newsletter list, notify your finance working group, and update your shared spreadsheet or Airtable base—all without manual data entry.

You can also use Papersign if you need to formalize agreements with space providers, fiscal sponsors, or other collectives while maintaining transparent, accessible processes.

Built for Movement Work

Paperform is trusted by over 500,000 teams worldwide, is SOC2 Type II and GDPR compliant, and offers the security and reliability that movement organizations need. Whether you're a study group just starting out or an established free university with dozens of courses, Paperform scales with your community without imposing artificial limits or extractive pricing.

Start building the educational commons you want to see—one donation, one workshop, one liberated mind at a time.