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, LGBTQ, 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...
by Marjorie Beggs | Dec 4, 2015 | Fiscal sponsorship, For Fiscal Sponsors, Nonprofit
Gregory Colvin, author of Fiscal Sponsorship: 6 Ways to Do It Right, has been named Outstanding Nonprofit Attorney of 2015 by a special committee of the American Bar Association. The award — presented to San Francisco attorney Colvin by the ABA’s Business Law Section...
by Marjorie Beggs | Sep 14, 2015 | Community development, Crowdfunding
September 22 marks the start of a crowdfunding campaign for A Place at the Table, a Raleigh, N.C., cafe breaking ground with its flexible payments for the food it serves. The cafe — appealing to the homeless as well as the affluent — is a fiscally sponsored project of...
by Marjorie Beggs | Aug 5, 2015 | Community development, Media
Local history and politics, environmental concerns, arts news, civic improvement, residents’ accomplishments — such stories and more are lifelines that connect people living on the isolated northern tip of the big island of Hawai’i. That’s what the Kohala Mountain...
