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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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Making the Most of Fiscal Sponsorship: FAQ
By now, you’ve probably seen something – an email, blog or a social post – about our course specifically for Model A fiscally sponsored project leaders, “Making the Most of Fiscal Sponsorship.” This is the first time we’ve ever collected our decade-plus of work with fiscally sponsored projects and put it all into a single…
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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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FS Conversations/Hub Joining New Platform
Fiscal Sponsorship Commons Incorporating the Resources of Fiscal Sponsor Hub In collaboration with Schulman Consulting, Social Impact Commons, with generous lead support from the Mellon Foundation, is pleased to announce the commencement of a new initiative to build the Fiscal Sponsorship Commons, a community-steward online platform for resource sharing within the broader fiscal sponsorship community.…
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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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The Typology of Fiscal Sponsorship
Risk and Resilience: The Portfolio Approach to Fiscal Sponsorship, Part #4 [Note: This series was co-written by Josh Clement and Schulman Consulting. For more on Josh, click here or scroll to the end of this post.]
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Advanced Portfolio Analysis
Risk and Resilience: The Portfolio Approach to Fiscal Sponsorship, Part #3 [Note: This series was co-written by Josh Clement and Schulman Consulting. For more on Josh, click here or scroll to the end of this post.]
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Getting Started with Portfolio Analysis
Risk and Resilience: The Portfolio Approach to Fiscal Sponsorship, Part #2 [Note: This series was co-written by Josh Clement and Schulman Consulting. For more on Josh, click here or scroll to the end of this post.]