How to Join

To get started, look to the upper right hand corner of this page for a box that looks like this...

See it?  Great.  If you are already a member of a Ning social network, click the Sign IN link and use the email and password you use for your other Ning social networks. 

If you are NOT a member of a Ning Network, click the Sign UP link.

After you've filled out your profile, it will be submitted to us for review. When your $5 donation comes through, we'll approve you for membership.   So head on over to....

CONTRIBUTE TO OUR GRANT ACCOUNT

Please contribute a minimum of $5 through our Paypal account. (We are very happy to accept donations greater than $5. However, each member, regardless of the size of his or her donation, gets one vote when we are awarding our grants).

Having trouble with Paypal?  Click here for detailed instructions...

We'll make every effort to approve your application within 24 hours.  We know it is a pain to wait, but one very significant benefit of having a membership/donation requirement is that we hope 5 for Fairness will be a troll-free environment.

You'll receive an email from us when we've matched your profile with your donation. You can then sign in and participate in the community, invite your friends, propose worthy projects, get others to support them, evaluate projects to makes sure they are up to snuff and vote for your favorite projects.

If you have any questions about the sign up process detailed here, please send us an email at 5forfairness AT SIGN gmail.com

Thanks!

The 5 for Fairness Team