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 | 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...
