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# Using Ledger CLI for Non-Profit Organizational Accounting
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Non-profit organizations (NPOs), particularly 501(c)(3) charities in the USA,
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have their own specific accounting needs. These often differ from for-profit
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accounting needs. For example, for-profit-oriented systems often make
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problematic assumptions about the workflow of accounting tasks (often because
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NPOs rely primarily on donations, rather than fee-for-service or
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widget-selling income). Also, non-profit income is categorized differently
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than for-profit income, and the reporting requirements vary wildly from their
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for-profit equivalents.
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This project is designed to provide some basic templates, tutorials, workflow
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documentation and scripts to handle accounting for an NPO. The primary
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example is a
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[direct project (aka Model A) fiscal sponsor NPO](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiscal_sponsorship#Models_of_fiscal_sponsorship).
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The tutorials herein
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# Copyright and License of this project
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The intention is that the examples and templates be of maximum use to
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everyone in all possible contexts. As such, no copyleft is applied, and the
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examples and templates will be licensed under CC-0v1.0. The documentation
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itself (such as the READMEs and tutorials) are dual-licensed
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(GPLv3-or-later|CC-By-SA-3.0) for maximum use as redistributable
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documentation, or for use in GPLv3-or-later and/or AGPLv3-or-later projects.
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# Copyright and License of this File
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This specific document, the README.md file for npo-ledger-cli, is copyrighted:
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Copyright © 2013, Bradley M. Kuhn
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The copyright holders wish that this document could be placed into the public
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domain. However, should such a public domain dedication not be possible, the
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copyright holders grant a waiver and/or license under the terms of CC0-1.0, as
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published by Creative Commons, Inc. A copy of CC0-1.0 can be found in the
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same repository as this README.md file under the filename CC0-1.0.txt. If
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this document has been separated from the repository, a [copy of CC0-1.0 can
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be found on Creative Commons' website](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode).
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