by Marjorie Beggs | Apr 30, 2015 | Arts and culture, Community development, Environment, Ethnic/minorities, Media, Social services, Women
… Local First Milwaukee, a project of fiscal sponsor American Independent Business Alliance in Bozeman, Mont., will use its $10,000 matching grant from the Kalio Fund, an investment and philanthropic fund, to continue efforts to preserve the Southeastern Wisconsin...
by Marjorie Beggs | Apr 27, 2015 | Arts and culture
The 2015 Arts Entrepreneurship Awards, Fractured Atlas’ annual shout-out to innovators and risk-takers, went to four trailblazers — Ontheboards.tv in Seattle, Groupmuse in Boston, TBVE Films in Los Angeles and Laundromat Project in New York City. “At Fractured Atlas,...
by Marjorie Beggs | Sep 24, 2014 | Arts and culture
Intersection for the Arts turns 50 next year, a venerable age for any nonprofit, especially one that has helped thousands of artists in all disciplines get their art in front of audiences. It’s San Francisco’s oldest alternative arts space — where James Broughton and...
by sfsc15 | Sep 12, 2012 | Crowdfunding, For Fiscal Sponsors
By Wayne Heuring — Fiscal sponsorship is a useful tool for community foundations, but there can be pitfalls, and nobody knows what to look out for better than attorney Gregory Colvin, whose presentation on the subject at the 2011 Fall Conference for Community...
by Jonathan Newman | Sep 7, 2012 | Fiscal sponsorship, For Fiscal Sponsors
Lisa Benitez, fundraiser for a project that she says has lost $6,400 to Help Is Here, teaches ESL at a community college in Madison, Wis. She learned from her students years ago about a charity in Ecuador — Rhumy Wara Foundation — that brought education and health...
by sfsc15 | Sep 7, 2012 | Fiscal sponsorship, For Fiscal Sponsors
Among the projects that complain that Help Is Here took their money is Gregg’s Goals, of San Diego, which provides scholarships for deserving young soccer players, claiming $7,900 lost. Founder Maryanne Garon said the project was known as Gregg Garon Scholarship Fund,...
by Marjorie Beggs | Sep 7, 2012 | Fiscal sponsorship, For Fiscal Sponsors
Judy Rogg is the founder of Erik’s Cause, a project she launched after her son Erik, a Santa Monica sixth-grader, died playing the choking game in 2010. Her goal is to educate parents, children and schools about the game’s dangers — the euphoria that accompanies...
by Marjorie Beggs | Sep 7, 2012 | Fiscal sponsorship, For Fiscal Sponsors
Following are narratives of three charitable projects that found a fiscal sponsor, Help Is Here, from its profile then posted in Study Center’s directory. Now they claim to have lost thousands of dollars to the management shenanigans of Maggie Lane-Baker, CEO of HIH....
by Marjorie Beggs | Aug 2, 2012 | Fiscal sponsorship, For Fiscal Sponsors
Maggie Lane-Baker, chief executive officer of Help Is Here, the Arizona fiscal sponsor accused of keeping: $300,000 from six of its current and former projects’ grants and donations, admits she has funds from five projects, but claims the money belongs to HIH because...
by Geoff Link | Jul 23, 2012 | Fiscal sponsorship, For Fiscal Sponsors
The following story of a rogue fiscal sponsor offers a rare opportunity to detail a fiscal sponsorship that truly did turn into a trap for the unwary. A fiscal sponsor in Arizona is accused by at least six of its previously 27 listed projects of accepting donations...
