by Marjorie Beggs | May 22, 2018 | Crowdfunding, Funding
Many fiscally sponsored projects ask their sponsors to manage their crowdfunding campaigns, so backers get the benefit of a tax deduction. Others crowdfund on their own, forgoing the tax incentive. This story explains both approaches. Fractured Atlas provides Model C...
by Mark Hedin | Apr 24, 2018 | Community development, Disaster relief, Environment, Ethnic/minorities, Fiscal Sponsor Networking, Fiscal sponsorship, Health and mental health, Housing, Social justice, Social services, Women
In the seven months since Hurricanes Irma and Maria devastated Puerto Rico, the storms’ wreckage still dominates daily life. Running water, electricity, clear roads and stable buildings remain elusive across the Caribbean commonwealth. But the island’s nonprofit...
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...
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...
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 | Dec 12, 2017 | Fiscal Sponsor Networking, Fiscal sponsorship, For Fiscal Sponsors, Nonprofit
A trend that began in California has made its way across the country as fiscal sponsors have taken to organizing regional networking events to share information, ideas, strategies and common concerns. Besides the annual National Network of Fiscal Sponsors conferences,...
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 Marjorie Beggs | Oct 19, 2017 | Fiscal Sponsor Networking
The National Network of Fiscal Sponsors is preparing for its biggest conference yet, a day and a half of discussions, presentations, panels and socializing in New Orleans, Oct. 26 and 27. Tamsin Elias, NNFS coordinator, says 115 participants — staff of 65 fiscal...
by Mark Hedin | Oct 19, 2017 | Fiscal sponsorship, For Fiscal Sponsors, Funding
From New York dancers to Californian environmental activists, fiscal sponsors are confronting the policies of some private foundations and public agency funders that bar them from consideration for grants. Projects sponsored by Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs...
by Mark Hedin | Feb 2, 2017 | Children, youth and families, Education, Health and mental health, LGBT, 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...
