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Non-profit organizations are often tasked with having to use their resources wisely and make the most of limited resources. With minimal budgets and overworked employees and volunteers who are often busy balancing charity work with other jobs, time and money are valuable commodities. The last thing a non-profit wants is to miss out on funds or delay its mission due to a slow contracting process. E-signatures and Web-based contracting offer non-profits the ability to get deals signed quickly so they can focus on the job at hand – helping people.

Non-profit organizations like yellobric are already experiencing the many benefits of e-signatures. yellobric is a charity that enables sustainable, long-term economic growth in the developing world through education and mass distribution of literature. The charity focuses on distributing e-readers as a low-cost and effective way of supplying children who live in the developing world with educational material, Web access and other learning tools. In order to license e-readers to secondary schools, yellobric must obtain signatures from its participants. In an effort to save time and money, yellobric turned to Adobe EchoSign to complete the necessary paperwork. With Adobe EchoSign, yellobric is able to send a contract to Kenya instantaneously, when previously that contract would take at least one week to reach Kenya and another week to be returned.

This scenario rings true for many charities that work internationally. Adopting e-signatures helps ensure that the contracting process does not interfere with the important missions of non-profit organizations.

Jason Lemkin, vice president of web business services at Adobe 

We’re excited today to announce the immediate availability of the free Adobe EchoSign application for iOS devices.  We realize that you are doing more and more business over your mobile devices and tablets and we’re committed to helping you streamline your business processes and increase productivity.  Now, you can easily get access to your EchoSign accounts and sign documents directly from your iPhone, iPad and iPod touch devices. The Adobe EchoSign application is available today for free download on the iTunes App Store.

With the Adobe EchoSign app, we’re making it that much easier for you to sign documents and send documents for signing right from your iOS device. Here are some of the things you can do with the new Adobe EchoSign application:

• Send a document for legally-binding eSignature and get documents signed in minutes rather than days.
• Get documents signed instantly on your iPad or iPhone when meeting a signer in person.
• Send documents from an EchoSign library, photo album, email attachment or from other applications.
• Track the status of agreements with real-time status updates.
• View signed agreements stored in your EchoSign account.

What’s more, you can do all this securely. The Adobe EchoSign app offers the same protection for both the sender and the signer during the signing process, including key authentication and privacy, fraud protection, and consumer disclosure.

So download the app at the iTunes Stores. After all, it’s free. Happy Holidays!