Financial Model
There are several ways to participate with Virtual Storehouse financially since we are a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization. You may donate towards all phases related to publishing Bibles and scripture resources, beginning with translation, encoding, archiving, typesetting, printing and delivery.
Sources of Funding
- Donations to directly to Virtual Storehouse.
- Funding provided for development of Bibles and/or resources. Funds are re-paid from the sales of printed resources.
How are the funds used?
- Content Preservation: Offsets the costs to encode scripture and other resources to be archived and made available for future product development.
- Guarantees the availability of print facilities in targeted locations.
- Donating and subsidizing Bibles and related resources.
- Resource Development: Offsets the costs for authors, editors and translators to translate and/or create resources.
- Fund maintenance and further development of OSIS as a Bible encoding standard.
What is the effect of my donation?
- Elimination of typesetting software costs for Bible Societies.
- Reduction of manual labor required to produce Bibles in multiple languages.
- Bible Societies will be able to free up much needed resources to focus on their primary mission.
- Offsets the costs for authors, editors and translators to translate and/or create resources.