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Past Tips of the Month

Date:  June - Fiscal Sponsorship

Are you simply interested in providing a service?  Don't want to waste your time with bureaucratic and legal matters that can complicate a new nonprofit start-up?  Maybe you have a project that will end after a year or two or you simply want to test the viability of an idea.

You may not need to start a nonprofit to carry out the program you're thinking of starting.  Consider fiscal sponsorship.  Fiscal sponsorship allows your program to become the sponsored program of an existing 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, who serves as your sponsoring agency.  Explore the "fiscal sponsorship" alternative...Read More

 

Source:  Nonprofit Kit for Dummies by Stan Hutton and Frances Phillips, 2nd Ed.

Source:  CMA (Chamber Music America) Matters, Winter 2009, ISSN 1050-9887

 

Contact Felicia Walker at 318.767.3022 for more information on this or other topics available at the CDW Learning Lab.

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