Since we work with both sponsors and sponsored projects, we often get asked our stance on project separation.
As you might expect, first and foremost, we believe in fiscal sponsorship — the power of this tool to open up all kinds of possibilities in the charitable sector that are more difficult, more costly and more exclusionary if you try to accomplish them via other means. It’s not a silver bullet, but fiscal sponsor, in its best forms, is — and can be — a wonderful tool for a great number of people and groups.
You may be asking yourself, “what does that have to do with project separations?”
Well, because we see the value in fiscal sponsorship, we take a cautious approach on project separations.
What that means is we believe, in *many cases*, projects should stay under sponsorship longer than they realize — and, for some projects, it may never really make sense to go out on their own.
That may sound extreme, and there are certainly situations where that isn’t the case. So, when we are approached to counsel projects, we look at all of the factors involved and provide individualized support.