[hackerspaces] Fundraising for FLOSS non-profit accounting software

[Chris Weiss]

On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 8:20 AM, Tim Butram <atrus6 at gmail.com> wrote:
> - Tracking and reporting of non-profit income types (related business income,
> unrelated business taxable income, donations, etc.)
> - Basic annual audit preparation reporting
> - Ability to easily handle all these features on a project-by-project subset
> of the accounts, and to easily export and excise that subset from the
> system. (i.e., support for temporarily restricted assets, earmarked for
> fiscal-sponsored projects)

I'm pretty sure gnucash can DO these things by using accounting codes
and custom reports.  it's not easy to setup or use, and requires some
in-depth accounting knowledge to get right.  I've tried using gnucash
for managing a single 2-unit rental property and it's just too complex
for a common IT guy like me to deal with on a not-every-day basis.
rental property management software exists and handles accounting
stuff, why not have something for NPOs?

now, having the software be a gnucash front end, so that an accountant
can run gnucash against it with all it's advanced reporting and
exporting abilities, would be kinda awesome.