A youth oriented environmental nonprofit organization that has pursued an
entrepreneurial path, which includes adding earned income to traditional donations, is
studied in order to explore some of the information technology (IT) gaps occurring in
such aggressive undertakings. To address these IT gaps, the study notes the broad
issues of intranet portals, including traditional business processing, coordination and
the interest in knowledge creation. However, this case study explores, in-depth, the
accounting issue of operating a geographically dispersed organization by managing the
main facets of its environmental programs via an intranet portal, uniform accounting
charts and activity based accounting. To its credit the nonprofit entity has a strong
strategic plan and vision in place.