by Marjorie Beggs | Feb 6, 2020 | Fiscal sponsorship, For Fiscal Sponsors
California nonprofits, as of Feb. 1, must answer a significant new question from the state Registry of Charitable Trusts. It’s question No. 9 on the one-page, yes-no, annual registration and renewal Form RRF-1: “At the end of this reporting period, did the...
by Marjorie Beggs | Nov 13, 2019 | Fiscal Sponsor Networking, Fiscal sponsorship
For the second year in a row, the Fiscal Sponsor Directory has won a prestigious San Francisco Press Club award for one of its news stories — community reporter Mark Hedin’s account of how, following the devastating hurricanes Irma and Maria in 2017, a fiscal sponsor...
by Marjorie Beggs | Oct 21, 2019 | Fiscal sponsorship, For Fiscal Sponsors, Nonprofit
A Directory staff report The 2019 third edition of the book that labeled and legitimized the practice of fiscal sponsorship has just been published by Study Center Press. Fiscal Sponsorship: 6 Ways To Do It Right can be purchased online only at Study Center’s Fiscal...
by Marjorie Beggs | Mar 14, 2019 | Fiscal Sponsor Networking, Fiscal sponsorship, For Fiscal Sponsors
A Board’s Guide to Fiscal SponsorshipDanielle Gangelhoff, fiscal sponsorship director for Propel Nonprofits in Minnesota, gets a lot of calls from staff and board members of other 501(c)(3)s — local and beyond — asking how they, too, can become a fiscal sponsor. She...
by Marjorie Beggs | Nov 8, 2018 | Fiscal sponsorship, For Fiscal Sponsors, IRS tax exemption, Nonprofit
The fast track to tax-exemption can take as little as 13 days — but at a price. A saying, attributed either to a concept of commerce or gritty singer Tom Waits, goes: “You can have something fast, good or cheap. Pick two.” The maxim could have been coined for the...
by Marjorie Beggs | Jul 24, 2018 | Advocacy, Fiscal Sponsor Networking, Fiscal sponsorship, For Fiscal Sponsors, Funding, Nonprofit
Microsoft, Google, others exclude nonexempt projects Nonprofit Quarterly last week published an “Open Letter from the Nonprofit World to Tech Giants” and, that same day, the National Network of Fiscal Sponsors sent out a membership call to arms. In the NQ “Open...
