On June 1, Social Impact Commons hosted a great practitioner conversation on the intersectionality between fiscal sponsorship and donor advised funds (“DAFs”). The following is a description of the event: We increasingly see fiscal sponsors accidentally or intentionally developing Donor Advised Fund (DAF) programs and, likewise, organizations running DAFs finding themselves acting as fiscal sponsors. […]
Author: Gene Takagi
Nonprofit Tweets of the Week – 6/2/23
Stay informed of the week’s notable events and shared resources with this curated list of Nonprofit Tweets of the Week. Notable Events of the Week: Top 10 Nonprofit Tweets: Equity and Justice: Pride (film) Reparations Are a Financial Quandary. For Democrats, They’re a Political One, Too. (Trip Gabriel, Maya King, Kurtis Lee and Shawn Hubler, […]
Enterprise Risk Management for Nonprofits: An Introduction
Enterprise risk management (ERM) is a strategic approach to managing risk holistically across the organization and its ecosystem. Under ERM, risks are not merely identified and addressed on a program or business segment level, they are surfaced so they can be assessed, analyzed, and managed with consideration of the entire organization, including its mission, its […]
Nonprofit Tweets of the Week – 5/26/23
Stay informed of the week’s notable events and shared resources with this curated list of Nonprofit Tweets of the Week. Notable Events of the Week: Top 10 Nonprofit Tweets: Equity and Justice: Study reveals staggering toll of being Black in America: 1.6 million excess deaths over 22 years (Liz Szabo, NBC News) Diversity, Equity and […]
California: Nonprofit Directors’ Rights of Inspection
As a board member (director) of a California nonprofit public benefit corporation, you have certain rights of inspection that allow you to access and review the corporation’s books, records, documents, and physical properties. Section 6334 of the Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation Law and Section 8334 of the Nonprofit Mutual Benefit Corporation each provide: Every director […]
Nonprofit Tweets of the Week – 5/19/23
Stay informed of the week’s notable events and shared resources with this curated list of Nonprofit Tweets of the Week. Notable Events of the Week: Top 10 Nonprofit Tweets: Equity and Justice: STAATUS Index 2023 Attitudes towards Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (The Asian American Foundation) The Brutal Past and Uncertain Future of Native Adoptions […]
How to Make Grants to Fiscally Sponsored Projects
Many private foundations and government agencies have become comfortable making grants to support fiscally sponsored projects (FSPs). Over the past decade, fiscal sponsorship has become an increasingly familiar structure and more widely recognized as a legitimate option for supporting charitable projects. But there are still many misconceptions about how fiscal sponsorship works and how funders […]
Nonprofit Tweets of the Week – 5/12/23
Stay informed of the week’s notable events and shared resources with this curated list of Nonprofit Tweets of the Week. Notable Events of the Week: Top 10 Nonprofit Tweets: Equity and Justice: “We need to take away children.” (Caitlin Dickerson, The Atlantic) Asked to Delete References to Racism From Her Book, an Author Refused (Alexandra […]
Northern California Grantmakers 2023 Conference
Northern California Grantmakers (NCG) held its 2023 Annual Conference: Mapping Our Collective Future on May 2nd in San Francisco. The Conference website posed the following questions: Are we making progress on building an equitable future for the region? How will we know we have reached this future? What direction are we going and what is the […]
Nonprofit Tweets of the Week – 5/5/23
Stay informed of the week’s notable events and shared resources with this curated list of Nonprofit Tweets of the Week. Notable Events of the Week: Top 10 Nonprofit Tweets: Equity and Justice: Long-Haulers Are Trying to Define Themselves: Disability can be a scary word for many people with long COVID. (Lindsay Ryan, The Atlantic) Column: […]