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  it comes across as a bit of a misnomer.</p>
 

	
 
<p>In this context, a fiscal sponsor is a non-profit organization that,
 
  rather than fund a project directly, provides the required
 
  infrastructure and facilitates the project's ability to raise its own
 
  funds.  Conservancy therefore assists your project in raising funds, and
 
  allows your project to hold those funds and spend them on activities
 
  that simultaneously advance the non-profit mission of the Conservancy
 
  and the FLOSS development and documentation goals of the project.</p>
 

	
 
<h2>What will the project leaders have to agree to if our project joins?</h2>
 

	
 
<p>Once you're offered membership, we'll send you a draft fiscal
 
  sponsorship agreement.  These aren't secret documents and many of our
 
  member projects have even chosen to put theirs online.  However, we wait
 
  to send a draft of this document until the application process is
 
  complete, as we often tailor and modify the agreements based on
 
  individual project needs.  This is painstaking work, and it's better to
 
  complete that work after both Conservancy and the project are quite sure
 
  that they both want the project to join Conservancy.</p>
 
<p>Once you're offered membership, Conservancy will send you a draft
 
  fiscal sponsorship agreement (FSA).  A template
 
  of <a href="/members/apply/ConservancyFSATemplate.pdf">Conservancy's FSA
 
  is available in PDF</a> (and
 
  in <a href="/members/apply/conservancy-fsa-template.tex">LaTeX</a>).
 
  Please note that the preceding documents are <strong>only
 
  templates</strong>.  Please do not try to fill one out and send it to
 
  Conservancy.  The final FSA between Conservancy and your project needs
 
  to be negotiated between us, and as can been seen in the template, the
 
  Representation section needs substantial work.  If your project is
 
  offered membership, Conservancy will work with you adapt the FSA
 
  template to suit the needs and specific circumstances of your project.
 
  This is painstaking work, and it's better to complete that work after
 
  both Conservancy and the project are quite sure that they both want the
 
  project to join Conservancy.</p>
 

	
 

	
 
<h2>If my project joins the Conservancy, how will it change?</h2>
 

	
 
<p>Substantively, member projects continue to operate in the same way as
 
they did before joining the Conservancy.  So long as the project remains
 
devoted to software freedom and operates consistently with the
 
Conservancy's tax-exempt status, the Conservancy does not intervene in the
 
project's development other than to provide administrative assistance.
 
For example, the Conservancy keeps and maintains books and records for the
 
project and assists with the logistics of receiving donations, but does
 
not involve itself with technical or artistic decision making.  Projects