Category: Fiscal Sponsorship Insights
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The Operating Manual for Model A Fiscal Sponsorship Is Here!
For more than a decade, we’ve worked with fiscally sponsored project leaders. And while every project and situation is unique, many of the questions, issues and challenges that project leaders tend to face are usually similar: What “should” our relationship with our fiscal sponsor look like? How much input should our sponsor have on our…
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AI for Fiscal Sponsors: A Field Guide for Late 2025
A leader at an established fiscal sponsor recently asked me: ‘How should we be using AI?’ It’s November 2025, and questions like this are coming up for executive directors and CEOs more and more frequently. There are news stories every day about how AI is going to be helpful – or harmful – to individuals,…
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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Fiscal Sponsor Transfers…But Were Afraid to Ask
When we started this work a decade ago, one thing we did not expect to discover is that projects sometimes transfer from one fiscal sponsor to another. Looking back, it shouldn’t have been surprising — there are a number of very good reasons why a project might leave its current fiscal sponsor and move to…
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Launching the Fiscal Sponsor Hub! (FAQ)
After months (years?) of discussion and beta testing, we are excited to launch the Fiscal Sponsor Hub (FS Hub) and make it available to fiscal sponsor staff everywhere! With this being a new resource for the fiscal sponsor community, we know you have questions — some of which we hope to answer here (answers are…
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Geeking Out on Governance with Greg Nielsen
For projects considering leaving a fiscal sponsor, governance is a huge part of the process — and yet it’s one that often gets overlooked. We sat down with Greg Nielsen (right) of Nielsen Training and Consulting, a governance expert based in Louisville, Kentucky to discuss some governance pitfalls for sponsored projects looking to transition out. The…
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Google Workspace for Fiscal Sponsors AND Projects!
If you run a fiscal sponsorship program (or a fiscally sponsored project), you know that a lot of the great technology products that companies make available to the nonprofit sector for free (or below market rates), aren’t available to you – or are really difficult to access.
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Geeking Out on Insurance for Separating Projects with Colleen Lazanich
We recently found someone who likes to geek out on the intricacies of fiscal sponsorship as much as we do! And that someone is Colleen Lazanich, CEO of CalNonprofits Insurance Services (right), which offers a full range of employee benefit and general liability coverages and provides exclusive nonprofit insurance programs. In the second part of…
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Geeking Out on Fiscal Sponsors and Insurance with Colleen Lazanich
We recently found someone who likes to geek out on the intricacies of fiscal sponsorship as much as we do! And that someone is Colleen Lazanich, CEO of CalNonprofits Insurance Services (right), which offers a full range of employee benefit and general liability coverages and provides exclusive nonprofit insurance programs. In this first of two…
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What I learned from talking to 70+ Fiscal Sponsors
The 3 Keys to Being a Successful Project Over the last year, I’ve connected with more than 70 organizations that offer some form of fiscal sponsorship to discuss their individual programs, goals and the directions in which their organizations are heading. I also dove into what these individual sponsors look for in project applicants and…