Terms and Conditions

1. About Soul Morse Foundation

Soul Morse Foundation is a nonprofit corporation organized in the District of Columbia.

The Foundation operates charitable and educational programs focused on humanitarian assistance, community engagement, sustainable livelihood support, work-readiness opportunities, and support for individuals and families facing documented hardship.

Soul Morse Foundation is committed to dignity, transparency, accountability, and responsible charitable operations.

2. Use of the Website

Public visitors may use the Soul Morse Foundation website to learn about our mission, read public updates, view public blog content, review public program information, and make general donations to the Foundation.

You agree to use the website only for lawful, respectful, and appropriate purposes.

You may not use the website or platform to:

• Violate any law or regulation
• Interfere with website security or functionality
• Attempt to access private areas without authorization
• Submit false, misleading, abusive, or harmful information
• Harass, threaten, exploit, or harm any person
• Misuse Foundation content, case information, donor information, or platform materials
• Engage in fraud, abuse, unauthorized scraping, copying, or automated data collection

Soul Morse Foundation may restrict, suspend, or terminate access for any misuse of the website or platform.

3. Community Urgency Program Membership

Soul Morse Foundation may offer a Community Urgency Program Membership.

This membership provides limited access to a selected city-based Soul Center for a period of three months, unless otherwise stated at the time of enrollment.

Community Urgency Program Membership allows eligible participants to:

• Select a city-based program area
• View Foundation-approved case summaries within that city-based Soul Center
• Review documented needs presented for community engagement
• Submit urgency recommendations
• Make donations connected to the city-based program fund
• Receive available program or case progress updates
• Save or follow cases within the platform, if this feature is available
• Contact the Foundation or assigned case managers regarding program questions

Community Urgency Program Membership is a platform access program. It does not create legal membership rights in Soul Morse Foundation as a nonprofit corporation.

Participants do not vote, elect directors, approve budgets, control funds, approve beneficiaries, or direct charitable distributions.

4. Duration and Renewal

Community Urgency Program Membership lasts for three months from the date access is granted, unless otherwise stated.

Participants may renew access after the membership period ends, subject to the Foundation’s then-current rules, pricing, availability, and platform requirements.

Soul Morse Foundation may modify, pause, discontinue, or limit membership access at any time if necessary for legal, operational, security, program, or charitable reasons.

5. Membership Payments and Donations

The payment made for Community Urgency Program Membership is treated as a donation to Soul Morse Foundation.

Each urgency recommendation submitted through the platform may also involve a separate donation.

Donations connected to city-based membership or urgency recommendations are received and administered by Soul Morse Foundation for the applicable city-based program fund or other Foundation-approved charitable purpose.

A donation does not give the donor or participant control over any specific case, person, beneficiary, assistance decision, urgency determination, or use of charitable funds.

6. General Donations and City-Based Program Funds

Public visitors may donate to the Foundation’s General Fund without joining the Community Urgency Program.

Community Urgency Program participants may donate through city-based program funds, such as an Aleppo Program Fund, Damascus Program Fund, or another city-based fund made available by the Foundation.

All funds are administered by Soul Morse Foundation in furtherance of its charitable and educational purposes.

Soul Morse Foundation retains final discretion and control over all contributions, program funds, case approvals, assistance decisions, urgency determinations, and use of charitable resources.

7. No Donor Control Over Specific Cases

Donors and participants may not choose a specific person to receive funds.

Urgency recommendations are advisory only.

Soul Morse Foundation may consider community recommendations as one factor in its internal review process, but no recommendation controls:

• Case approval
• Eligibility
• Urgency classification
• Fund allocation
• Assistance amount
• Assistance timing
• Program priority
• Charitable distribution
• Use of charitable resources

Soul Morse Foundation does not operate as a conduit for donor-directed gifts to specific individuals.

8. Urgency Recommendations

Through the Community Urgency Program, participants may review case summaries and recommend that the Foundation consider a case, community, or category of need as urgent.

Urgency recommendations help the Foundation understand community concern and perceived urgency.

Submitting an urgency recommendation does not guarantee that any case will receive assistance, receive assistance in a specific amount, or receive assistance at a specific time.

The Foundation makes all final decisions based on documented need, available resources, internal review, partner information, compliance requirements, and Foundation-approved procedures.

9. Soul Center Access and Private Case Content

The Soul Center may include private case summaries available only to logged-in Community Urgency Program participants with active city-based access.

Case summaries may include information such as:

• Name
• Photo
• City
• Personal story
• Work or training goal
• Estimated support need
• Urgency level
• Program updates

This content is shared only for private community engagement, awareness, and urgency recommendation purposes.

Soul Center case content is not public content.

10. Strict Protection of Case Privacy and Dignity

Soul Morse Foundation takes the dignity, privacy, and safety of individuals and families seriously.

Participants are strictly prohibited from copying, downloading, saving, screenshotting, recording, publishing, reposting, distributing, forwarding, displaying, or sharing any private case summary, case photo, case update, beneficiary information, or Soul Center content outside the platform.

This includes sharing through:

• Social media
• Messaging apps
• Email
• Websites
• Blogs
• Screenshots
• Screen recordings
• Printed copies
• Private groups
• Public forums
• Any other channel or medium

Participants may share only public content officially published by Soul Morse Foundation on its public website, blog, or official social media channels.

11. No Direct Contact With Beneficiaries

Participants may not contact beneficiaries, applicants, families, or individuals featured in private case summaries directly.

Participants may contact Soul Morse Foundation or an assigned case manager, where available, to ask appropriate questions about case progress, program updates, or community engagement.

This rule protects dignity, privacy, safety, and program integrity.

12. Program Updates

Soul Morse Foundation may provide updates through the website, blog, social media, email, platform notices, city-based program updates, or Soul Center updates.

General donors may receive or view public program updates through the Foundation’s public website, blog, and social media channels.

Community Urgency Program participants may receive city-based program updates or case progress updates when available.

Updates are provided for transparency, education, and community engagement. They do not create donor control, participant control, or any right to direct Foundation decisions.

13. Partner Organizations

Soul Morse Foundation may work with approved partner organizations to support case identification, documentation, local coordination, verification, monitoring, reporting, and program follow-up.

Information about partner organizations may be shared for transparency.

Public information about partner organizations, joint activities, or program results may be shared if published by Soul Morse Foundation on its public website, blog, or official social media channels.

Partner involvement does not transfer control over Foundation funds, final case approvals, or charitable decisions away from Soul Morse Foundation.

14. Donations Are Generally Final

All donations are generally final and non-refundable.

This includes general donations, Community Urgency Program Membership donations, city-based program donations, and urgency recommendation donations.

Refunds may be considered only where required by law, where a clear processing error occurred, or where Soul Morse Foundation determines in its sole discretion that a refund is appropriate.

15. Tax Status and Donation Receipts

Soul Morse Foundation has applied for recognition of federal tax-exempt status under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.

While the IRS is reviewing the application, donations may not be tax-deductible unless and until tax-exempt status is recognized by the IRS.

If the IRS grants recognition of tax-exempt status, donations made during the applicable pending period may be treated as tax-deductible retroactively, subject to IRS rules and the donor’s individual tax circumstances.

If and when recognition is granted, Soul Morse Foundation will notify donors and provide updated donation receipts where appropriate.

Donors should consult their own tax advisors regarding the tax treatment of any donation.

16. Accounts and Security

You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account login information.

You agree not to share your account access with anyone else.

You are responsible for all activity that occurs under your account.

You must notify Soul Morse Foundation promptly if you believe your account has been accessed without authorization.

Soul Morse Foundation may suspend or restrict accounts for security reasons, suspected misuse, violations of these Terms, or protection of the platform and its users.

17. Suspension or Termination of Access

Soul Morse Foundation may suspend, restrict, or terminate access to the website, platform, Soul Center, or Community Urgency Program at any time for reasons including:

• Violation of these Terms
• Misuse of private case information
• Unauthorized screenshots or sharing
• Attempted beneficiary contact
• Fraud or suspected fraud
• Harassment or abusive conduct
• False or misleading information
• Security concerns
• Unauthorized access attempts
• Harm to the dignity, privacy, or safety of cases
• Any conduct harmful to the Foundation, its mission, beneficiaries, partners, donors, users, or platform integrity

Termination of access does not create a right to a refund unless required by law or approved by the Foundation in its sole discretion.

18. Intellectual Property

All content on the Soul Morse Foundation website and platform, including text, graphics, logos, images, designs, layouts, videos, documents, case summaries, and platform materials, belongs to Soul Morse Foundation or is used with permission.

You may view public website content for personal, informational, and charitable engagement purposes.

You may not copy, reproduce, modify, distribute, publish, sell, or exploit Foundation content without written permission, except for public content that Soul Morse Foundation expressly makes available for sharing.

Private Soul Center content may not be copied, downloaded, screenshot, recorded, reposted, or shared under any circumstances.

19. Third-Party Services and Links

The website or platform may include links to third-party websites, payment processors, partner pages, social media platforms, or external services.

Soul Morse Foundation is not responsible for the content, privacy practices, security, policies, or actions of third-party websites or services.

Use of third-party services may be subject to their own terms and policies.

20. No Guarantee of Platform Availability

Soul Morse Foundation works to maintain a reliable and secure website and platform.

However, we do not guarantee that the website, platform, Soul Center, donation pages, account features, or Community Urgency Program features will always be available, uninterrupted, error-free, or secure.

Access may be interrupted for maintenance, updates, security reasons, technical issues, program changes, or circumstances beyond the Foundation’s control.

21. Disclaimer

Soul Morse Foundation provides website and platform content for charitable, educational, informational, and community engagement purposes.

The Foundation makes reasonable efforts to present accurate and meaningful information, but program information, case summaries, updates, and availability may change.

Nothing on the website or platform should be understood as a guarantee of assistance, approval, eligibility, funding, tax treatment, program outcome, or continued platform access.

22. Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Soul Morse Foundation, its directors, officers, staff, volunteers, contractors, partners, and service providers will not be liable for indirect, incidental, consequential, special, or punitive damages arising from use of the website, platform, Soul Center, donation features, Community Urgency Program, or related services.

This limitation applies to claims related to website use, platform access, account issues, donation processing, third-party services, interruptions, errors, unauthorized access, or misuse of content.

Nothing in these Terms limits liability where such limitation is not permitted by law.

23. Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Soul Morse Foundation, its directors, officers, staff, volunteers, contractors, partners, and service providers from claims, losses, damages, liabilities, costs, and expenses arising from:

• Your use of the website or platform
• Your violation of these Terms
• Your misuse of private case content
• Your unauthorized sharing, screenshotting, copying, or publishing of Soul Center materials
• Your attempt to contact beneficiaries directly
• Your violation of any law or rights of another person
• Your false, misleading, harmful, or unauthorized conduct

24. Governing Law

These Terms and Conditions are governed by the laws of the District of Columbia, without regard to conflict of law principles.

By using the website or platform, you agree that any dispute related to these Terms, the website, platform, donations, or Community Urgency Program will be handled under applicable District of Columbia law.

25. Changes to These Terms

Soul Morse Foundation may update these Terms and Conditions from time to time.

The updated version will be posted on this page with a revised effective date.

Continued use of the website, platform, Soul Center, donation features, or Community Urgency Program after updates means you accept the revised Terms.