August 2010 - Laura Lorber from the Wall Street Journal identified OpenFran.org in her top three picks for best franchise research sources. View the full Article: "A survey of useful sites for franchisees or those looking to buy"

Thanks for the recognition of the power and importance of OpenFran - and thank you to our benefactors and site users who donate. Your support allows us to keep this public service online and growing.

One OpenFran user wrote us the following complimentary email last week after donating $10.00 - "OpenFran saved me endless hours of research and over $200.00 (an unnamed 'pay' site wanted $220 for a UFOC I needed). I found the correct document in under 10 minutes on your site. Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU!"

The Open Franchise Foundation is a 501(c)(3) organization formed to promote the unfettered access to franchising related documents, such as the UFOC and FDD. It is entirely funded by the generous support of our founding benefactors and franchising community members. Together we advocate franchise openness and equal access to information.

The foundation’s new website, OpenFran.org, revolutionizes the way you search for franchising related information.

OpenFran provides free access to every franchising related document archived by CALEASI since 2002, along with 1000s of other franchising related documents (UFOCs, FDDs, filings, exhibits, orders, etc.).

These documents, formerly viewable only as simple images, have had every word fully indexed and made searchable via OpenFran’s PowerSearch feature. This allows you to instantly find what you need. Every archived document is also easily downloadable in the convenient PDF standard. OpenFran provides the PowerSearch functionality and document download features to everyone completely free of charge.