Unfolding Word
Unfolding Word
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About this organization
Mission
unfoldingWord is a Bible Translation organization that equips and empowers the global church for excellence in Bible Translation and Theological Formation, collaborating with other equippers of the church to make disciples of every people group.
About
Gateway Languages (GL)Equipped and resourced network partners to translate and publish Biblical content, translation helps, and training resources in 19 gateway languages (GLs): Nepali, Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati, Punjabi, Oriya, Assamese, Marathi, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Urdu (Devanagari script), Nagamese, Russian, Spanish, Portuguese, French and Chadian Arabic.Biblical content included: The unfoldingWord Literal Text (ULT), unfoldingWord Simplified Text (UST), Open Bible Stories (OBS).Translation helps included: unfoldingWord Translation Words (UTW), unfoldingWord Translation Notes (UTN), unfoldingWord Translation Questions (UTQ).Training resources included: unfoldingWord Translation Academy (UTA)Four Bible societies in the Middle East, Egypt, Palestine, Jordan, and Gulf have agreed to sign an MOU agreeing to release future content under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license.Fifty OBS stories are being translated in two Yemeni Arabic dialects: Taizi and Sanaani. Process is also underway for two more to begin soon: Modern Standard Arabic and Egyptian Colloquial in both written and audio formats.An agreement is being signed for the Farsi Bible, New Persian Version (NPV) to be updated using CCBT methodology by the Iranian (diaspora) church networks
Interesting data from their 2020 990 filing
The non-profit's mission, as documented in the filing, is “Unfoldingword revolutionizes bible translation by empowering the global church with cutting-edge technology & creative common resources so people around the world can quickly & reliably translate the bible and other biblical resources into their own language.”.
When explaining its purpose, the activities were described as: “Provide consulting, management, and support services for christian organizations and ministries.”.
- The non-profit is legally allowed to operate in the state of MT, as reported.
- The filing provides the non-profit's address in 2020 as 10524 Moss Park Road Ste 204-402, Orlando, FL, 32832.
- The non-profit has a total of 23 employees, as reported on their form for 2020.
- Is not a private foundation.
- Expenses are greater than $1,000,000.
- Revenue is greater than $1,000,000.
- Revenue less expenses is $365,831.
- The organization has 5 independent voting members.
- The organization was formed in 2003.
- The organization pays $0 in salary, compensation, and benefits to its employees.
- The organization pays $22,170 in fundraising expenses.