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<div class="content-with-donate-sidebar">
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<h2>Fundraising Campaign: Non-Profit Accounting Software</h2>
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<h2>Non-Profit Accounting Software</h2>
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<img src="/img/conservancy-accounting-campaign-logo.png" alt="Conservancy accounting campaign logo" style="float:left;" />
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<img src="/img/conservancy-accounting-campaign-logo.png" alt="Conservancy accounting campaign logo" style="float:left;" />
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<blockquote>
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<p><strong>Update on 2014-12-03:</strong> As can be seen, Conservancy sadly
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never reached our fundraising target for this project. However, as we
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promised below, we <a href="http://npoacct.sfconservancy.org/">continue to
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work on this project</a>. We'd really appreciate more donations, as we've
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needed to make a lot of compromises in our plans since we didn't reach our
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fundraising goal. We did complete Phase 0 described below
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(<a href="http://npoacct.sfconservancy.org/">results are on our wiki</a>),
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and Phase 1 now comprises the development of an REST API for double-entry
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accounting which many applications (including this one) can use.</p>
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</blockquote>
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<br/>
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<hr/>
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<p>Conservancy has a plan to help all non-profit organizations (NPOs) by
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<p>Conservancy has a plan to help all non-profit organizations (NPOs) by
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creating an Open Source and Free Software accounting system usable by
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creating an Open Source and Free Software accounting system usable by
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non-technical bookkeepers, accountants, and non-profit managers. You can
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non-technical bookkeepers, accountants, and non-profit managers. You can
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help us do it by donating now.
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help us do it by donating now.
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</p>
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</p>
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<h3>What is the Non-Profit Accounting Software Project?</h3>
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<p>To keep their books and produce annual government filings, most NPOs rely
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<p>To keep their books and produce annual government filings, most NPOs rely
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on proprietary software, paying exorbitant licensing fees. This is
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on proprietary software, paying exorbitant licensing fees. This is
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fundamentally at cross purposes with their underlying missions of charity,
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fundamentally at cross purposes with their underlying missions of charity,
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equality, democracy, and sharing.</p>
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equality, democracy, and sharing.</p>
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<p>You can help Conservancy fix this problem by <a href="#donate-box" class="donate-now">donating now</a>. We seek to
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raise $75,000 to employ a
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developer for one year to make substantial progress on this project.</p>
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<p>This project has the potential to save the non-profit sector
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<p>This project has the potential to save the non-profit sector
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millions in licensing fees every year. Even non-profits that continue to use proprietary accounting
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millions in licensing fees every year. Even non-profits that continue to use proprietary accounting
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software will benefit, since the existence of quality Open Source and Free
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software will benefit, since the existence of quality Open Source and Free
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for the non-profit sector — a boon to funders, boards, and employees — bringing the Free Software and general NPO communities
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for the non-profit sector — a boon to funders, boards, and employees — bringing the Free Software and general NPO communities
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into closer collaboration and understanding.</p>
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into closer collaboration and understanding.</p>
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<p>Thanks in advance for <a href="#donate-box" class="donate-now">helping us</a> develop Free Software to benefit all
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non-profit organizations, and the
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populations they serve.</p>
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<p>Donors of $500 or more will be acknowledged in the THANKS file and other
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appropriate places in the codebase itself.</p>
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<p><a href="#endorsements">Endorsers of this effort</a> include April, Fractured Atlas, The Free Software
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<p><a href="#endorsements">Endorsers of this effort</a> include April, Fractured Atlas, The Free Software
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Foundation, Mozilla Foundation, GNOME Foundation, OpenHatch, Open
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Foundation, Mozilla Foundation, GNOME Foundation, OpenHatch, Open
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Source Initiative, QuestionCopyright.org, and Software in the Public
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Source Initiative, QuestionCopyright.org, and Software in the Public
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and Conservancy therefore believes a solution that handles fiscal sponsors
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and Conservancy therefore believes a solution that handles fiscal sponsors
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will also handle the simpler case as well.</p>
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will also handle the simpler case as well.</p>
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<h3>The Plan</h3>
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<p>Conservancy proposes to hire a software developer for one year to
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accomplish the first two phases of this project. Conservancy seeks to
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raise $75,000 toward this project to help cover salary and benefits for a
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full-time staffer to work on this project. We ask that you give generously
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via the donation buttons on this page to support our work.</p>
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<h4>Phase 0</h4>
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<p>Some Free Software accounting systems do exist. A previous informal
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survey of these systems that Conservancy conducted in 2007 led us to the
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conclusion that, in general, these systems were heavily geared toward
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for-profit endeavors, ignored the unique needs of NPOs generally, and
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were completely hopeless for the specific needs of a fiscal sponsoring
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organization. Conservancy's assessment at the time was that these
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challenges could be addressed only with a large rewrite of one of these
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systems. Conservancy chose
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<a href="http://www.ledger-cli.org/">Ledger CLI</a> precisely because
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it provided flexibility and configurability not present in any other Free Software
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double-entry accounting system.</p>
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<p>However, while that previous informal survey informs Conservancy's
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existing hypothesis that Ledger CLI is the right base system here,
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Conservancy will first test that hypothesis. The first phase of this
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project (estimated to last approximately 6-8 full-time weeks) will produce
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a written survey of all known Free Software accounting systems, and
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indicate what challenges exist to adapt such systems for the needs of
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NPOs. The <a href="https://fsf.org/">Free Software Foundation</a> has
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pledged their help in the evaluation of SQL-Ledger,
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and <a href="http://www.gnome.org/foundation/">the GNOME Foundation</a> has pledged their
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help in the evaluation of <a href="http://www.gnucash.org/">GNUcash</a> (which they
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currently use, respectively).</p>
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<h4>Phase 1</h4>
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<p>Phase 1 of the project will select the preferred codebase from Phase 0,
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and improve that system to create a basic accounting system for
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small-to-medium sized USA NPOs (i.e., Form 990-filers) — including fiscal
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sponsors — with the following features:
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<ul>
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<li>Basic accounts payable/receivable (with invoicing)</li>
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<li>Tracking and reporting of non-profit income types (related business
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income, unrelated business taxable income, donations, etc.)</li>
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<li>Basic backup documentation tracking for expenses and payments</li>
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<li>Basic bank statement reconciliation reporting</li>
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<li>Basic annual audit preparation reporting
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(A <a href="https://github.com/ledger/ledger/tree/next/contrib/non-profit-audit-reports">prototype
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of this portion is already complete</a> and has been relied on for
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real-life audits; but the prototype is just a hack and needs to be
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rewritten.)</li>
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<li>Ability to easily handle all these features on a project-by-project
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subset of the accounts, and to easily export and excise that subset from
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the system. (i.e., support for temporarily restricted assets, earmarked for
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fiscal-sponsored projects)</li>
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<li>Multi-currency support and reporting</li>
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<p>We will consider the first year of this project successful <em>only if all these
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functions can be performed by a bookkeeper who is generally qualified as a
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bookkeeper</em>, but not necessarily familiar with standard Free Software tools
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such as GNU/Linux, Emacs, version control, and command line scripts. This
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requirement is essential: Conservancy's existing system using Ledger CLI
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already provides sufficient functionality to manage non-profit accounting,
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but our system requires a bookkeeper who is also adept with the
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aforementioned tools already.</p>
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<p>Finally, while the first year of work focuses on USA NPO needs,
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Conservancy seeks to lead an international effort, and welcomes
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contributions and input from everyone in the non-profit community from
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around the world. Conservancy has created
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a <a href="http://lists.sfconservancy.org/mailman/listinfo/npo-accounting">mailing
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list for discussion of this project</a> and
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a <a href="http://npoacct.sfconservancy.org">Wiki for collaboration</a> and encourages interested parties
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from around the world to join the mailing list and contribute to the
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project!</p>
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<h3>Why Conservancy Must Fund This Work</h3>
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<h3>Why Conservancy Must Fund This Work</h3>
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<p>As it stands, nearly all Open Source and Free Software NPOs either use
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<p>As it stands, nearly all Open Source and Free Software NPOs either use
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paperwork. I have already personally <a href="#donate-box" class="donate-now">donated</a>.</q> — Asheesh Laroia,
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paperwork. I have already personally <a href="#donate-box" class="donate-now">donated</a>.</q> — Asheesh Laroia,
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Executive Director, <a href="https://openhatch.org/">OpenHatch</a></p>
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Executive Director, <a href="https://openhatch.org/">OpenHatch</a></p>
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<h3>Some Important Details for this Fundraiser</h3>
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<li>Donations made are general donations to the Software Freedom
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Conservancy, Inc., a 501(c)(3) charity incorporated in New York.
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Conservancy is committed to doing this work described herein, but cannot
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promise to complete the work if the fundraising goal is not reached. If
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the fundraising goal is not reached, Conservancy will do its best to make
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progress on the plan above with the resources available. It's expected
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that work will simply proceed, but more slowly and take more time, if the
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fundraising goal is not reached.</li>
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<li>The license for the project is not yet chosen, since Phase 0 might
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prescribe contribution to particular upstream projects, and Conservancy is
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committed to contributing to upstream projects under their chosen license,
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where possible. However, Conservancy promises that all software that is
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written will be released under a license that is both approved by
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the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#GPLCompatibleLicenses">FSF as a Free
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Software license</a> <strong>and</strong> by the OSI as
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an <a href="http://opensource.org/licenses">OSI-approved license</a>. New
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documentation that is written will be released under some license
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compatible with <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/">CC BY-SA 3.0 USA</a>.</li>
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