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for-profit income, and the reporting requirements vary wildly from their
for-profit equivalents.</p>
<p>Conservancy's existing system is working adequately, but requires daily
the relatively more expensive time of a highly technical person to do the
job of bookkeeping. Also, the system cannot easily be adapted in its
current form for another NPO, unless they also have a
skilled technical employee to act as bookkeeper. This project aims to build
on what Conservancy has learned and produce a non-profit accounting system
that corrects these flaws.</p>
<p>Finally, Conservancy's mission (as stated
on <a href="http://sfconservancy.org/docs/conservancy_Form-1023.pdf">our Form
on <a href="/docs/conservancy_Form-1023.pdf">our Form
1023 with the USA IRS</a>) includes producing Open Source and Free Software.
Thus, this project is a great way to pursue Conservancy's mission and address a
specific need that so many NPOs (including us) have. If no one steps up to create Free Software to replace the widely used
proprietary software, NPOs in aggregate will pay <em>much more</em> money for
proprietary licensing than Conservancy will ever spend in developing a
replacement. Please <a href="#donate-box" class="donate-now">donate
generously</a> to help us do it!</p>
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<h3>Statements of Support For This Project from Others</h3>
<p><q>As a national fiscal sponsor with over 3,000 arts and cultural projects