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<p><strong>Update on 2013-11-15:</strong> As can be seen, Conservancy has not

  reached our fundraising target.  However, as we promised below, we've begun

  work on this project, but we'd really appreciate more donations, as we've

  needed to make a lot of compromises in our plans since we didn't reach our

  fundraising goal.  Furthermore, we welcome volunteers to join

  us <a href="http://npoacct.sfconservancy.org">in developing this software</a>.</p>

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<p>Conservancy has a plan to help all non-profit organizations (NPOs) by

creating an Open Source and Free Software accounting system usable by

non-technical bookkeepers, accountants, and non-profit managers.  You can

help us do it by donating now.

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<p>To keep their books and produce annual government filings, most NPOs rely

on proprietary software, paying exorbitant licensing fees.  This is

fundamentally at cross purposes with their underlying missions of charity,

equality, democracy, and sharing.</p>

<p>You can help Conservancy fix this problem by <a href="#donate-box" class="donate-now">donating now</a>.  We seek to

<li>Basic bank statement reconciliation reporting</li>

<li>Basic annual audit preparation reporting

  (A <a href="https://github.com/ledger/ledger/tree/next/contrib/non-profit-audit-reports">prototype

  of this portion is already complete</a> and has been relied on for

  real-life audits; but the prototype is just a hack and needs to be

  rewritten.)</li>

<li>Ability to easily handle all these features on a project-by-project

  subset of the accounts, and to easily export and excise that subset from

  the system. (i.e., support for temporarily restricted assets, earmarked for

  fiscal-sponsored projects)</li>

<li>Multi-currency support and reporting</li>

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<p>We will consider the first year of this project successful <em>only if all these

  functions can be performed by a bookkeeper who is generally qualified as a

  bookkeeper</em>, but not necessarily familiar with standard Free Software tools

  such as GNU/Linux, Emacs, version control, and command line scripts.  This

  requirement is essential: Conservancy's existing system using Ledger CLI

  already provides sufficient functionality to manage non-profit accounting,

  but our system requires a bookkeeper who is also adept with the

  aforementioned tools already.</p>

<p>Finally, while the first year of work focuses on USA NPO needs,

  Conservancy seeks to lead an international effort, and welcomes

  fundraising goal is not reached.</li>

<li>The license for the project is not yet chosen, since Phase 0 might

  prescribe contribution to particular upstream projects, and Conservancy is

  committed to contributing to upstream projects under their chosen license,

  where possible.  However, Conservancy promises that all software that is

  written will be released under a license that is both approved by

  the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#GPLCompatibleLicenses">FSF as a Free

  Software license</a> <strong>and</strong> by the OSI as

  an <a href="http://opensource.org/licenses">OSI-approved license</a>.  New

  documentation that is written will be released under some license

  compatible with <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/">CC BY-SA 3.0 USA</a>.</li>

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