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<p>Our auditors were only familiar with proprietary accounting software, and
so our system seemed foreign to them, as it relies on Ledger CLI's text files, Emacs and
version control. During their questions
about our setup, we asked them to hypothetically prescribe a specific
proprietary software setup as a model for managing Conservancy's
accounts. Our chief auditor started by mentioning a few well-known
proprietary solutions. But then he paused and continued: <q>Given
that Conservancy's a fiscal sponsor with so many temporarily restricted
accounts, existing systems really wouldn't do that good of a job for
you</q>.</p>
<p>Indeed, Conservancy reached out into the broader fiscal sponsorship
community beyond the <acronym title="Free, Libre and Open Source Software">FLOSS</acronym>
<acronym title="Non-profit Organization">NPO</acronym> community and discovered that many larger fiscal sponsors — even
community beyond the <abbr title="Free, Libre and Open Source Software">FLOSS</abbr>
<abbr title="Non-profit Organization">NPO</abbr> community and discovered that many larger fiscal sponsors — even
those willing to use proprietary components — have cobbled together
their own unique systems, idiosyncratically tailored to their specific
environments. Thus, good, well-designed, and reusable accounting software
for non-profit fiscal sponsorship is not just missing in the software
freedom community; it's missing altogether.</p>
<p>The project that Conservancy proposes will take a modest step
forward in creating a better solution for everyone.
<a href="#quotes">Many NPO leaders and academics agree</a> with Conservancy about the
immediate need for work to begin on this
effort. <a id="endorsements"