by Mark Hedin | Oct 19, 2017 | Fiscal sponsorship, For Fiscal Sponsors, Funding
From New York dancers to Californian environmental activists, fiscal sponsors are confronting the policies of some private foundations and public agency funders that bar them from consideration for grants. Projects sponsored by Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs...
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...
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...