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<p>But, more powerfully, this project's realization
will increase the agility and collaborative potential
for the non-profit sector — a boon to funders, boards, and employees — bringing the Free Software and general NPO communities
into closer collaboration and understanding.</p>
<p>Thanks in advance for <a href="#donate-box" class="donate-now">helping us</a> develop Free Software to benefit all
non-profit organizations, and the
populations they serve.</p>
<p>Donors of $500 or more will be acknowledged in the THANKS file and other
appropriate places in the codebase itself.</p>
<p><a href="#endorsements">Endorsers of this effort</a> include Fractured Atlas, The Free Software
<p><a href="#endorsements">Endorsers of this effort</a> include April, Fractured Atlas, The Free Software
Foundation, Mozilla Foundation, GNOME Foundation, OpenHatch, Open
Source Initiative, QuestionCopyright.org, and Software in the Public
Interest, and APRIL; all encourage you to <a href="#donate-box" class="donate-now">donate and support it</a>.</p>
<h3>Background</h3>
<p>Like many non-profit organizations (NPOs) in the USA, Conservancy's
financial accounts are audited annually by an independent accounting firm;
we recently completed our fiscal year 2011 audit. As usual, our auditors
asked plenty of questions about our accounting software. Conservancy uses
only Free Software, of course, centered around a set of straightforward reporting
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<acronym title="Non-profit Organization">NPO</acronym> 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" style="text-decoration:none"></a><a href="https://www.fracturedatlas.org">Fractured Atlas</a>, The <a href="http://fsf.org">Free Software
effort. <a id="endorsements"
style="text-decoration:none"></a><a href="http://april.org">April</a>, <a href="https://www.fracturedatlas.org">Fractured Atlas</a>, The <a href="http://fsf.org">Free Software
Foundation</a>, The <a href="https://www.mozilla.org/foundation/">Mozilla
Foundation</a>, The <a href="http://www.gnome.org/foundation/">GNOME Foundation</a>, <a
href="https://openhatch.org/">OpenHatch</a>, <a href="http://opensource.org/node/658">Open Source Initiative</a>,
<a href="http://QuestionCopyright.org">QuestionCopyright.org</a>, and <a href="http://www.spi-inc.org/">Software in the Public Interest</a> have
all endorsed Conservancy's plan, and they encourage you to <a href="#donate-box" class="donate-now">donate and
support it</a>.</p>
<p>Conservancy is uniquely qualified to undertake this task. Using only Free
Software, Conservancy already meets the complex accounting challenges of
earmarked, directed donations for over thirty different projects. We've
learned much about this work in our first seven years of
operation, and we're prepared to apply what we've learned to solve