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3rd Edition “Fiscal Sponsorship 6 Ways to Do It Right”— new, updated

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...

EZ does it — some say IRS makes it too easy to become tax-exempt

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...

Fiscal sponsors, NNFS push back on tech giants’ 501(c)(3) policy

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...

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...

IRS’s little-used tax form clears way for nonprofits’ advocacy

by Mark Hedin | Mar 6, 2018 | Advocacy, Fiscal sponsorship, For Fiscal Sponsors, Lobbying, Nonprofit

Political advocacy by nonprofits has taken on a new urgency since Donald Trump took office. For nonprofits, it’s a natural impulse to want to help create progressive change. To what extent lobbying on specific legislation is allowed under current laws was the subject...

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,...
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