by sfsc15 | Sep 12, 2012 | Crowdfunding, For Fiscal Sponsors
By Wayne Heuring — Fiscal sponsorship is a useful tool for community foundations, but there can be pitfalls, and nobody knows what to look out for better than attorney Gregory Colvin, whose presentation on the subject at the 2011 Fall Conference for Community...
by Jonathan Newman | Sep 7, 2012 | Fiscal sponsorship, For Fiscal Sponsors
Lisa Benitez, fundraiser for a project that she says has lost $6,400 to Help Is Here, teaches ESL at a community college in Madison, Wis. She learned from her students years ago about a charity in Ecuador — Rhumy Wara Foundation — that brought education and health...
by sfsc15 | Sep 7, 2012 | Fiscal sponsorship, For Fiscal Sponsors
Among the projects that complain that Help Is Here took their money is Gregg’s Goals, of San Diego, which provides scholarships for deserving young soccer players, claiming $7,900 lost. Founder Maryanne Garon said the project was known as Gregg Garon Scholarship Fund,...
by Marjorie Beggs | Sep 7, 2012 | Fiscal sponsorship, For Fiscal Sponsors
Judy Rogg is the founder of Erik’s Cause, a project she launched after her son Erik, a Santa Monica sixth-grader, died playing the choking game in 2010. Her goal is to educate parents, children and schools about the game’s dangers — the euphoria that accompanies...
by Marjorie Beggs | Sep 7, 2012 | Fiscal sponsorship, For Fiscal Sponsors
Following are narratives of three charitable projects that found a fiscal sponsor, Help Is Here, from its profile then posted in Study Center’s directory. Now they claim to have lost thousands of dollars to the management shenanigans of Maggie Lane-Baker, CEO of HIH....
by Marjorie Beggs | Aug 2, 2012 | Fiscal sponsorship, For Fiscal Sponsors
Maggie Lane-Baker, chief executive officer of Help Is Here, the Arizona fiscal sponsor accused of keeping: $300,000 from six of its current and former projects’ grants and donations, admits she has funds from five projects, but claims the money belongs to HIH because...