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NNFS Dec. 8 virtual conference — A chance to meet with a wide-ranging mix of fiscal sponsor colleagues

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...

Sponsor Spinoff Creates Special Resource for Black History Month

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...

Renewed resource for fiscal sponsors: Greg Colvin relaunches his blog site 

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...

New for California fiscal sponsors: Number 9, number 9, number 9

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...

Directory news story wins 1st place S.F. Press Club award

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...

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...

Seasoned sponsors publish field guide for board members

by Marjorie Beggs | Mar 14, 2019 | Fiscal Sponsor Networking, Fiscal sponsorship, For Fiscal Sponsors

A Board’s Guide to Fiscal SponsorshipDanielle Gangelhoff, fiscal sponsorship director for Propel Nonprofits in Minnesota, gets a lot of calls from staff and board members of other 501(c)(3)s — local and beyond — asking how they, too, can become a fiscal sponsor. She...

Directory story wins San Francisco Press Club award

by Marjorie Beggs | Nov 20, 2018 | Civil rights, Ethnic/minorities, Fiscal Sponsor Networking, For Fiscal Sponsors, Social justice

The Fiscal Sponsor Directory is pleased to announce that Mark Hedin, our community reporter, has won a prestigious San Francisco Press Club award for his story, “Fiscal sponsor’s bold role in removing Confederate statues from New Orleans” published last November in...

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...
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