by Marjorie Beggs | Feb 26, 2025 | Fiscal sponsorship
Fiscal sponsorship can “reduce barriers to entry for would-be do-gooders.” — Wendy Paris, Inside Philanthropy What do philanthropists think about fiscal sponsorship and do they really understand our field? It’s been more than a year since a major article in the...
by Marjorie Beggs | Dec 16, 2024 | Fiscal sponsorship
Just months after the Covid pandemic shutdown, two fiscal sponsor colleagues were talking about the government’s new Paycheck Protection Program, its complexity for their field and options for easing some of the anxiety. They moved fast, inviting 85 fiscal sponsors to...
by Marjorie Beggs | Jun 13, 2023 | Fiscal sponsorship, For Fiscal Sponsors
Is fiscal sponsorship on the rise? Until now, the evidence has been anecdotal. Now, the Fiscal Sponsor Directory has confirmation: We compared how many projects our profiled sponsors said they were serving in 2018 with their current numbers and found 54 had...
by Marjorie Beggs | Jan 4, 2023 | California fiscal sponsorship, Fiscal Sponsor Networking, Fiscal sponsorship, For Fiscal Sponsors
The year was 2006, and, using funds from a W.K. Kellogg Foundation grant, the newly formed National Network of Fiscal Sponsors launched a field scan to gather the first facts and stats about fiscal sponsors. NNFS, in collaboration with Social Impact Commons, is again...
by Marjorie Beggs | Oct 19, 2022 | Animals, Arts and culture, Children, youth and families, Community development, Education, Environment, Festivals and events, Fiscal Sponsor Networking, Fiscal sponsorship, For Fiscal Sponsors, Nonprofit, Social justice
The following are excerpts, Part 2, edited by Marjorie Beggs, from the Feb. 1, 2022, online forum Fiscal Sponsor Conversations (formerly Covid Conversations). At meeting’s start, Oliver Hack, Social Good Fund, director of fiscal sponsorship and forum...
