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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
