by Geoff Link | Jul 28, 2025 | Fiscal sponsorship
It’s a near-complete reference library devoted to fiscal sponsorship. Well, it doesn’t have everything, but the “Fiscal Sponsorship: 6 Ways To Do It Right” third edition eBook has benefits the print version can’t match. The paperback is like the award-winning...
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 Leah Garchik | Oct 9, 2024 | Fiscal sponsorship
This isn’t the San Francisco setting depicted on colorful postcards of a city known for its beauty.What’s vivid here, on trash-strewn Mission Street in a drab building a block from a traffic-clogged freeway, is the work of Ethnic Media Services. EMS is dedicated to...
by Jericha Senyak | Nov 27, 2023 | Fiscal sponsorship
The following are excerpts, edited by Marjorie Beggs, from Jericha Senyak’s presentation at Fiscal Sponsor Conversations, October 24, 2023. Fifty-five sponsors from around the country attended the online forum. Andrew Schulman: Our guest presenter today, Jericha...
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...
by Marjorie Beggs | Sep 29, 2022 | Advocacy, Community development, Environment, Ethnic/minorities, Fiscal sponsorship, For Fiscal Sponsors, Social justice, Transportation
The following are excerpts, Part 1, edited by Marjorie Beggs, from the Feb. 1, 2022, online forum Fiscal Sponsor Conversations (formerly Covid Conversations). Oliver Hack, Social Good Fund, forum co-moderator: Thanks everyone for being here. Today is about talking,...
by Greg Colvin | Aug 10, 2022 | Fiscal sponsorship
This is part of a series of excerpts, edited by Marjorie Beggs, from Fiscal Sponsor Conversations (formerly Covid Conversations), a weekly virtual discussion forum. In this post, Greg Colvin and Stephanie Petit, co-authors of “Fiscal Sponsorship, 6 Ways To Do It...
