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-excerpt: "A 501(c)3 non-profit, dedicated to building Internet payment and privacy infrastructure for the public good, primarily serving the users of the Zcash protocol and blockchain."
+excerpt: "  The Zcash Foundation is a financial privacy nonprofit. Our mission is to build and support the technology infrastructure that will enable people to control their own financial data. The protocol Zcash, with its landmark use of zero-knowledge cryptography, is the most promising long-term approach."
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-[Sign up for our newsletter!](https://buttondown.email/zcashfoundation)
+## Newsletter
 
+Subscribe to receive announcements and program updates from the Zcash Foundation.
+
+<form
+  action="https://buttondown.email/api/emails/embed-subscribe/zcashfoundation"
+  method="post"
+  target="popupwindow"
+  onsubmit="window.open('https://buttondown.email/zcashfoundation', 'popupwindow')"
+  class="embeddable-buttondown-form"
+>
+  <label for="bd-email">Enter your email:</label>
+  <input type="email" name="email" id="bd-email">
+  <input type="hidden" value="1" name="embed"/>
+  <input type="submit" value="Subscribe now!" />
+</form>
 
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