by Mark Hedin | Apr 24, 2018 | Community development, Disaster relief, Environment, Ethnic/minorities, Fiscal Sponsor Networking, Fiscal sponsorship, Health and mental health, Housing, Social justice, Social services, Women
In the seven months since Hurricanes Irma and Maria devastated Puerto Rico, the storms’ wreckage still dominates daily life. Running water, electricity, clear roads and stable buildings remain elusive across the Caribbean commonwealth. But the island’s nonprofit...
by Mark Hedin | Mar 6, 2018 | Advocacy, Fiscal sponsorship, For Fiscal Sponsors, Lobbying, Nonprofit
Political advocacy by nonprofits has taken on a new urgency since Donald Trump took office. For nonprofits, it’s a natural impulse to want to help create progressive change. To what extent lobbying on specific legislation is allowed under current laws was the subject...
by Mark Hedin | Dec 12, 2017 | Fiscal Sponsor Networking, Fiscal sponsorship, For Fiscal Sponsors, Nonprofit
A trend that began in California has made its way across the country as fiscal sponsors have taken to organizing regional networking events to share information, ideas, strategies and common concerns. Besides the annual National Network of Fiscal Sponsors conferences,...
by Mark Hedin | Nov 17, 2017 | Arts and culture, Civil rights, Education, Ethnic/minorities, Fiscal Sponsor Networking, Fiscal sponsorship, Media, Social justice
At the National Network of Fiscal Sponsors’ annual meeting, in a cradle of the Confederacy, the Foundation for Louisiana shared the challenges it faced when it stepped in to help New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu “choose a better future” for the city,...
by Mark Hedin | Oct 19, 2017 | Fiscal sponsorship, For Fiscal Sponsors, Funding
From New York dancers to Californian environmental activists, fiscal sponsors are confronting the policies of some private foundations and public agency funders that bar them from consideration for grants. Projects sponsored by Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs...
