by Jan Masaoka | May 26, 2022 | Arts and culture, California fiscal sponsorship, Fiscal sponsorship, For Fiscal Sponsors, Funding, Nonprofit
Poster announcement, not yet live, inviting groups to apply for the California Nonprofit Performing Arts Grant Program. Photo: California Office of the Small Business Advocate California has a new grants program with $49.5 million for performing arts groups, and much...
by Greg Colvin | Apr 19, 2022 | Fiscal sponsorship
Now a 501(c)(3), the Save the Manatees Club started as a fiscally sponsored project of the Florida Audubon Society. Photo: 6076679 © Baronoskie | Dreamstime.com This is the second in a series of excerpts, edited by Marjorie Beggs, from Greg Colvin’s January 2022...
by Marjorie Beggs | Feb 28, 2022 | Fiscal sponsorship
Andrew Schulman, top, and Oliver Hack have been co-hosting and moderating the weekly online forum for almost two years. Covid Conversations began in April 2020 as a way to keep fiscal sponsors nationwide connected as the new, terrifying, pandemic swept across our...
by Greg Colvin | Feb 28, 2022 | Fiscal sponsorship
The working group for the 1st edition of Fiscal Sponsorship: 6 Ways To Do It Right, 1993, included, from left, Francis Phillips, Greg Colvin, John Kreidler, Julie Mackaman, Tom Layton, Geoff Link and Alma Robinson. Photo by Lenny Limjoco, S.F. Study Center The...
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 Geoff Link | Feb 15, 2021 | Children, youth and families, Civil rights, Education, Ethnic/minorities
Ross Valley Charter School teachers and parents created this colorful, fact-laden, multimedia newsletter as a teaching aid during Black History Month, February 2021. Fiscal sponsors find satisfaction in the success of projects under their wing, after they spin...
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...
