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Every nonprofit, whether new or old, requires significant financial, legal, and human resource services—and replicating the same organizational infrastructure for each nonprofit, no matter how large or small, can be costly and inefficient. Establishing and maintaining the infrastructure for a new nonprofit organization often diverts precious time and resources from the organization's mission. When you’re working to create a healthy and just world, you don’t want to be bogged down in filing IRS forms, managing liability insurance, and negotiating the best benefits plan for your staff.
Fiscal sponsorship is a cost-effective way to implement new programs, bring together groups to collaborate on an issue, and test new approaches to social change. It enables individuals and organizations to start new programs without establishing a new, separate nonprofit organization. Tides Center receives charitable donations and grants on behalf of our fiscally sponsored projects and is legally and financially responsible for all project activities. It our philosophy that sponsored projects are not separate and isolated entities; rather, they are an integral part of Tides Center.
Tides Center—the country’s leading fiscal sponsor—has set the benchmark in providing infrastructure and services to hundreds of nonprofit projects nationwide. Tides Center provides back-office services to social entrepreneurs and activists working on the front lines of issues such as environmental sustainability, social justice, human rights, health, and community development. We provide a level of expertise most nonprofits would not otherwise be able to afford: we’re staffed by experts that share your values. And, because Tides Center projects share our common mission, fewer resources go to administration and overhead—and more get directed to building a healthy, just, and sustainable world.
