Describe your letter and audience. Makeform creates an online sign on letter form with the statement, tailored signer paths, and public attribution choices.
Route new signers to Google Sheets, Slack, and Zapier.
Sample prompts for the builder
Choose a campaign brief, edit it, or send it to the Makeform builder.
Audience
Nonprofits, associations, and community groups
Format
Organization endorsement with representative details
Prompt size
242 chars
Example form structure
Organization endorsement with representative details
Organization name and type
Representative name, title, and work email
How should the organization be listed?
Authorized to submit for this organization?
May campaign staff send follow-up actions?
Suggested routing tags
Individual signer
Organization signer
Review requested
Ask exactly how each name and affiliation may appear publicly.
Step 1
Read
the complete letter and its specific request
Step 2
Choose
individual or organization signer path
Step 3
Confirm
support and preferred public attribution
Step 4
Review
clean records before publishing a signer list
Why use a dedicated form
Connect every endorsement to the letter, usable attribution, and the signer's public display choice.
Place the statement and requested action above the support checkbox.
Ask individuals for attribution and organizations for representative and authorization details.
Consistent attribution and display fields simplify staff review and export.
Common campaign formats
Start with the closest audience pattern, then edit its language and fields.
Capture the group name, representative, role, location, website, and an authorization confirmation for a publishable coalition roster.
Keep the path short with name, contact, locality, endorsement, and a clear choice about public display.
Collect discipline, institution, title, and profile details while explaining how affiliations will be presented.
Branch from one signer-type question and tag submissions so staff can review individuals and organizations separately.
Build the campaign workflow
Define the endorsement, collect useful attribution, and review names before public display.
Add the statement, requested action, and allowed signer types.
Choose conditional fields and an explicit public-display choice for each signer type.
Send receipts, notify staff, and route records needing review.
Check affiliations, duplicates, corrections, and display preferences before export.
Form vs email vs petition
Keep the shared statement attached to structured attribution and review choices.
Field guide
Use these six sections to connect each endorsement with its statement, attribution, and display preference.
Letter and request
Include the complete letter and requested action. Identify substantive revisions so staff knows which version each signer saw.
Signer type
Ask signer type first, then reveal only the relevant individual or organization fields.
Identity and affiliation
Collect only the name, title, locality, and affiliation the campaign will use.
Support and authority
Require an unchecked support box. Ask organization representatives to confirm authorization to submit the group's name.
Public display
Offer clear publication options and store the selected value with each submission.
Review and routing
Route corrections, credential checks, and partner confirmations away from publication-ready records.
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Open toolFAQ
Practical answers for advocacy staff, coalition organizers, and communications teams collecting endorsements.
A sign on letter form lets individuals or organizations add their names to a shared statement. It displays the letter, records explicit support, gathers the attribution details the campaign needs, and asks how the signer may be shown on a public or recipient-facing list.
Usually full name, email, location, optional title or affiliation, support acknowledgment, and public display preference. Collect only what the campaign will use. Keep communication opt-in separate from the endorsement so each choice is clear.
Collect the organization name, type, location, website, representative name, representative title, and work email. Add a confirmation that the representative is authorized to submit the organization's endorsement, plus the exact name format requested for publication.
Yes. Begin with a signer-type question and use conditional paths. Individuals see personal attribution fields; organization representatives see group and role fields. Apply a signer-type tag so the campaign can filter, review, and export each group separately.
Yes. Signers should be able to read the complete statement and requested action before checking the support box. If the wording changes materially during a campaign, identify the version associated with later submissions rather than silently replacing the statement.
Offer explicit choices such as full name and affiliation, shortened individual name, organization name only, or not publicly listed. Store that response as its own field. A sample attribution preview can help signers understand exactly what their selection means.
Route submissions into statuses such as new, needs review, and ready. Review organization spellings, titles, duplicates, correction requests, and display preferences. Export only the ready records into the campaign's separate publishing workflow.
Yes. Makeform is unlimited free for generating, editing, publishing, and collecting responses. The paid tier removes the Makeform badge; it does not unlock a response allowance or impose a free-plan submission cap.
Turn a shared statement into an organized campaign.
