by Marjorie Beggs | Oct 19, 2022 | Animals, Arts and culture, Children, youth and families, Community development, Education, Environment, Festivals and events, Fiscal Sponsor Networking, Fiscal sponsorship, For Fiscal Sponsors, Nonprofit, Social justice
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...
by Geoff Link | Feb 15, 2021 | Children, youth and families, Civil rights, Education, Ethnic/minorities
Ross Valley Charter School teachers and parents created this colorful, fact-laden, multimedia newsletter as a teaching aid during Black History Month, February 2021. Fiscal sponsors find satisfaction in the success of projects under their wing, after they spin...
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,...
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 | Feb 2, 2017 | Children, youth and families, Education, Health and mental health, LGBTQ, Nonprofit, Social justice
In what are among the first prosecutions anywhere for the unlawful sale of e-cigarettes — a delivery system for nicotine especially popular with kids — 15 San Francisco retailers have been cited in police sting operations targeting sales to minors. Using underage...
by Marjorie Beggs | Jul 9, 2015 | Arts and culture, Children, youth and families, Civil rights, Education, Health and mental health, LGBTQ, Media, Social justice
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...
