PROJECTS WE LOVE, PART 2

PROJECTS WE LOVE, PART 2

The following are excerpts, Part 2, edited by Marjorie Beggs, from the Feb. 1, 2022, online forum Fiscal Sponsor Conversations (formerly Covid Conversations). At meeting’s start, Oliver Hack, Social Good Fund, director of fiscal sponsorship and forum...

Fiscal sponsor’s bold role in removing Confederate statues from New Orleans

    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,...

Fiscal sponsor helps veteran filmmaker finance LGBT documentary

Minnesota’s largest school district, Anoka-Hennepin, in 2009 adopted a hands-off policy requiring teachers and staff to “remain neutral on matters regarding sexual orientation” — a follow-up to an earlier school board prohibition on teaching about homosexuality as a...