by Marjorie Beggs | Feb 17, 2022 | Fiscal sponsorship
Tom Silk, left, and Greg Colvin at Sea Ranch on the Northern Calif. coast, 1992. Photo: Betsy Adler Tom Silk, pioneer in our field, 1937-2022 Fiscal sponsorship has lost a giant of our sector, Tom Silk, who died Jan. 25. In 1981, Silk founded Adler &...
by Marjorie Beggs | Nov 22, 2021 | Fiscal sponsorship
The National Network of Fiscal Sponsors’ annual conference, held at key locations around the country since 2007, is an event many of us look forward to — a chance to share practical details of our work and enjoy the company of fellow sponsors. Last year, Covid-19 shut...
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...
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...