on the development of a Free Software solution to our accounting needs.</q>

&mdash; Bdale Garbee, President,  <a href="http://www.spi-inc.org/">Software

    in the Public Interest</a></p>

<p><q>Open Source accounting software specifically tailored for non-profits

    will fill a pretty large need.</q>

    &mdash; <a href="http://wagner.nyu.edu/calabrese">Thad Calabrese</a>,

    Assistant Professor of Public and Nonprofit Financial Management

    at <a href="http://wagner.nyu.edu/">NYU Wagner</a>, and co-author

    of <cite>Financial Management for Public, Health, and Not-for-Profit

    Organizations, 4th Edition</cite>.</p>

<p><q>The Open Source Initiative has shared the experiences of Software

     Freedom Conservancy in navigating the financial management needs of

     non-profit organisations and shares their concern. We have many NPOs as

     members and we welcome this useful initiative by Conservancy.</q>

     &mdash; Simon Phipps, President, <a href="http://opensource.org/node/658">Open Source

     Initiative</a></p>

<p><q>The <a href="https://fsf.org/">Free Software Foundation</a> is committed to doing all of its work,

both public-facing and internal, using only free software. We are thankful to

the developers of SQL Ledger for providing the accounting software that has

served us well for many years. As we have grown, so have the complexities of

our finances.  Because of our own needs and our mission to help other