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Tom Silk, pioneer in our field, 1937-2022

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 &...

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...
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