Gather with your peers on the weekly Zoom calls just for fiscal sponsors
Join us for the only weekly conversation focused on the needs, challenges and goals of fiscal sponsors. We call it the Fiscal Sponsor Conversations.
We have two humble goals for each session:
- To facilitate connections among those who practice this wacky thing called fiscal sponsorship
- To provide our attendees with useful information to help them personally, their practice and/or their organization
Each session is focused on a specific topic and features some combination of large group discussion, small group breakouts and/or expert guest speakers. (See below for a list of recent topics we’ve covered.) These sessions are free and open to all practitioners (and only practitioners) of fiscal sponsorship no matter who you serve, how you serve them or where you serve them! If this feels like the group for you, please register and bring your thoughts, plans, questions and answers related to how your organization manages any/all aspects of its operations through this time of uncertainty. (If you’re not a practitioner of fiscal sponsorship but are interested in this group, please click here to reach out.)
The Fiscal Sponsor Conversations meets on most Tuesdays at 10am PT/11am MT/noon CT/1pm ET. Your hosts/moderators are:
- Oliver Hack, Director of Fiscal Sponsorship, Social Good Fund
- Andrew Schulman, Principal, Schulman Consulting
Some of our previous topics include:
- Approaches to fee structures
- The History of Fiscal Sponsorship
- Insurance for fiscal sponsors
- Project vetting and approval
- Handling challenging conversations
- Staff burnout and retention
- Advocacy and lobbying
- Deep dive into fiscal sponsorship contracts
- Assessing impact of your program
- Issues and questions around Model C sponsorship
- Oversight and controls
- Government grants
- Employee classification and risk
- Overall risk management
- Recruiting and retaining great employees
- How sponsors are handling the federal vaccine mandate
- Accepting non-traditional gifts
- Cybersecurity for fiscal sponsors
- State Registrations for fiscal sponsors
- Authentic Staff Appreciation
- The History of Fiscal Sponsorship
- Leadership Transitions
- Anti-Racism in Fiscal Sponsorship practice
- International Grantmaking
- Paying individuals/grant making to individuals
Upon registering, you’ll also gain access to our archive of audio recordings, transcripts and other info from our 140+ sessions to date.
Register here for the Fiscal Sponsor Conversations
(If you don’t see a registration form below this text, click here to register)
*Please note: By registering for the Fiscal Sponsor Conversations, you are consenting to receive weekly emails from Schulman Consulting with information related to each week’s Zoom session, as well as infrequent emails from us with information pertinent to fiscal sponsor organizations. In addition, by registering here — if you are approved to join this forum — you will also be granted a free account to access the Fiscal Sponsor Hub online community. More information on the FS Hub can be found here. We hate spam, too, and will never sell your email address.