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Renewed resource for fiscal sponsors: Greg Colvin relaunches his blog site 

by Marjorie Beggs | Feb 10, 2021 | Crowdfunding, Fiscal sponsorship, For Fiscal Sponsors

Fiscal sponsorship’s growing niche in the nonprofit sector welcomes the news that after an eight-year hiatus, Greg Colvin has relaunched his blog site, fiscalsponsorship.com, first begun in 2005. Colvin, author of “Fiscal Sponsorship: 6 Ways To Do It...

Crowdfunding with a fiscal sponsor — or not

by Marjorie Beggs | May 22, 2018 | Crowdfunding, Funding

Many fiscally sponsored projects ask their sponsors to manage their crowdfunding campaigns, so backers get the benefit of a tax deduction. Others crowdfund on their own, forgoing the tax incentive. This story explains both approaches.  Fractured Atlas provides Model C...

Crowdfunding in flux

by Marjorie Beggs | Apr 3, 2018 | Crowdfunding, Fiscal Sponsor Networking, Fiscal sponsorship, For Fiscal Sponsors, Funding, LGBTQ, Nonprofit

Rules of the game changing as platforms come, go, evolve In this second installment of our crowdfunding series, we look at sample campaigns and follow where the money goes. Unlike a project’s Website that serves as a platform for raising money with a donate button...

Crowdfunding: ‘It’s on a trajectory’

by Marjorie Beggs | Feb 8, 2018 | Arts and culture, Crowdfunding, Education, Fiscal sponsorship, For Fiscal Sponsors, Nonprofit

Crowdfunding, the skyrocketing money-raising strategy, burst into the nonprofit sector and is becoming a fixture of fiscal sponsorship. This is the first of a series of stories on the phenomenon, looking at the nuts and bolts, who’s doing it, campaign case studies,...

Embracing diversity in a pay-what-you-can cafe

by Marjorie Beggs | Sep 14, 2015 | Community development, Crowdfunding

September 22 marks the start of a crowdfunding campaign for A Place at the Table, a Raleigh, N.C., cafe breaking ground with its flexible payments for the food it serves. The cafe — appealing to the homeless as well as the affluent — is a fiscally sponsored project of...
Annual conference puts fiscal sponsorship in spotlight

Annual conference puts fiscal sponsorship in spotlight

by sfsc15 | Sep 12, 2012 | Crowdfunding, For Fiscal Sponsors

By Wayne Heuring — Fiscal sponsorship is a useful tool for community foundations, but there can be pitfalls, and nobody knows what to look out for better than attorney Gregory Colvin, whose presentation on the subject at the 2011 Fall Conference for Community...

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