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Horyond Non Profit Case study 2025 → now French 1901 association

A practical digital boost.

Horyond Non Profit is the French 1901-law association I chair, formed in 2025. Its stated purpose is digital inclusion for small organisations. In practice: I help associations, NGOs, education projects and early-stage startups on tight budgets clarify their message, pick tools that fit, and set up a simple online presence — then I hand over so they can run it themselves.

Role President · founder
Legal form French 1901 association
Registered office Montpellier
Website horyond.org
The mission

Why the association exists.

Plenty of useful organisations have real impact but no time, no budget and no bearings for building a credible online presence. The association tackles that gap — and nothing else.
01

The reality

Too many impact projects stay hard to find or badly structured online. Not for lack of value — for lack of time, budget, or bearings on the right tools.

02

The approach

Unblock the essentials, don't rebuild everything. Clarify the message, scope the priorities, pick tools that fit and, where it applies, ship a clean one-page.

03

The scope

No unlimited support, no complex builds, no guaranteed acceptance. What we can do depends on the need, on eligibility, and on the capacity we actually have at the time.

The program

What we actually do.

Short steps: understand, scope, ship the essentials, then hand over. The goal isn't to do everything for free — it's to unblock what's blocking, then get out of the way.
01 / Method

Scoping & priorities

The entry point for everything else. We clarify the need, the goals and what actually matters next, then set a realistic direction. Plenty of organisations already leave with the main thing at this stage: knowing what not to do.

Step 1 · review & scoping
02 / Tools

Tool guidance

Pick tools that fit the context rather than the trend — design and communication (e.g. Canva), organisation and collaboration (e.g. Google Workspace).

Subject to eligibility
03 / Deliverable

A clean one-page

When it's relevant and feasible: a clear, understandable one-page / landing page. No bespoke development — that isn't what the program is for.

Case by case
04 / Visibility

Basic SEO

The fundamentals for being findable and readable: structure, headings, key pages. Not an SEO retainer — just the floor that keeps you from being invisible.

Fundamentals
05 / Autonomy

Handover

The step that matters most. Clear choices and solid foundations so the organisation can keep going without depending on me. Support that works comes to an end.

Exit
06 / Ecosystem

Horyond × PageStreet

A partnership with PageStreet, a public-funding advisory firm, to point innovative projects toward the right schemes — French R&D and innovation tax credits, grants, investment support. The association refers; the funding expertise stays with them.

Partnership
07 / Boundaries

What this isn't

No complex development, no unlimited technical support, no automatic access to tools, no guaranteed acceptance. Saying so upfront avoids wasting the time of organisations that have little to spare.

Deliberately scoped
Apply

How a request gets reviewed.

Every request gets read properly. There is a selection — not to filter by prestige, but to stay useful and realistic about what the association can actually absorb.
01

Submission

You describe your organisation and your need through the “Submit a project” form on horyond.org.

02

Review

We assess relevance and feasibility. Not every request fits the program, and that's fine.

03

Call

If it's relevant, we clarify the need in 15–20 minutes. Short and direct, to avoid pointless back-and-forth.

04

Decision

Depending on current capacity, we confirm support — or point you elsewhere, which is sometimes the more useful outcome.

Identity & values

Under-promise, then deliver.

An organisation already short on time doesn't need a broad promise: it needs to know exactly what it gets, and what it won't. That's the association's bias, and it's spelled out in plain terms on horyond.org.

Scoped support. Pro bono where we can. Never unlimited.

Digital inclusion Pragmatism Autonomy Scoping Transparency Honest selection No unrealistic promises
Name

HORYOND FOR NON PROFIT

Declared name. Public-facing name: Horyond Non Profit.

Legal form

French 1901-law association — RNA W343033813

Declared purpose: promoting digital inclusion for small organisations in order to strengthen their autonomy and their social impact.

Office

Montpellier, France

Registered office in Montpellier. Requests aren't limited to the region, or even to France — but selection also depends on language and context.

2025

Founding assembly, 18/08/2025

President and publication manager: Thanaël Fontaine. Contact: contact@horyond.org.

My path

How I got here.

This is my own path, not the association's official history — that starts in 2025. What I began with START Paris taught me what works, and above all what doesn't hold up over time.
2023

START Paris — the starting point

I founded START Paris, the local chapter of the European START network, to bring student entrepreneurs closer to international startup ecosystems. That's where I learned to run a community and to scope projects very early.

Early 2025

Handing over — and one conclusion

I handed START Paris over. Meanwhile, working with associations and small organisations, the same blocker kept coming back: no time, no budget, no bearings for existing properly online. A far more down-to-earth need than access to a network.

18/08/2025

The association's founding assembly

Declaration of HORYOND FOR NON PROFIT, a French 1901-law association, RNA W343033813, registered in Montpellier. A deliberately narrow purpose: digital inclusion for small organisations. I chair it.

Today

A program that stays small on purpose

Requests come in through the form, get read, and are accepted according to the capacity actually available. A partnership with PageStreet lets us point innovative projects toward public funding. The rest — complex development, unlimited support — isn't on the menu, and won't be.

Your organisation does useful work. Digital shouldn't be the blocker.

Case study · Thanaël Fontaine · 2026 horyond.org horyond.com contact@horyond.org