Fiscal Sponsorship: 6 Ways To Do It Right
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS
LEAD STORY: The Power of Ethnic Media — How fiscal sponsorship makes it happen
This isn’t the San Francisco setting depicted on colorful postcards of a city known for its beauty. What’s vivid here, on trash-strewn Mission Street in a drab building a block from a traffic-clogged freeway, is the work of Ethnic Media Services. EMS is dedicated to informing today’s multicultural, multilingual America about critical, everyday topics, a goal so challenging and so pressing that it transcends the physical surroundings of a nonprofit’s well-worn office.
Ethnic Media Services was founded by Sandy Close in 2018 under the fiscal sponsorship of the pioneering San Francisco Study Center, first grassroots sponsor in the city. Her aim was to harness the power of ethnic media outlets nationwide, reflect cultural similarities and differences, educate stakeholders and connect communities of color to the civic life of the country – missions grander than EMS’ modest office, tucked inside the Study Center’s larger suite. MORE
OTHER NEWS: Accounting for Fiscal Sponsors: “A good accounting system feels good to use.”
This feature article is excerpted and edited by Marjorie Beggs, from Jericha Senyak’s presentation at Fiscal Sponsor Conversations, October 24, 2023. Fifty-five sponsors from around the country attended the online forum.
Andrew Schulman: Our guest presenter today, Jericha Senyak, provides financial consulting, coaching and empowerment to artists and arts organizations in the Bay Area and beyond. Her clients include theater and dance companies, orchestras, choirs, visual and performing artists, social practice artists and the fiscal sponsors of those artists. Her work includes full-spectrum accounting support, financial reporting support along with individual and group coaching. If you’ve never met her before, you’re in for a real treat. MORE
Fiscal sponsors: create or update your agency profile
Fiscalsponsordirectory.org helps connect community projects with fiscal sponsors. San Francisco Study Center created and maintains this directory based on self-reported information from the fiscal sponsors listed. Create your listing and help projects and other nonprofits find you fast. To update your profile send us an email.
Projects: Find a fiscal sponsor
Use the directory to find the fiscal sponsor that best fits for what you do. To search by state: click on the map links below.
Search fiscal sponsors by state The Directory features 384 sponsors: 378 sponsors in 40 states plus seven in the District of Columbia and three in Puerto Rico and three in Canada.