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In 2003 as a part of a strategic planning initiative, Tides Center conducted a benchmarking study that led to the first gathering of fiscal sponsors to discuss the issues and challenges of using fiscal sponsorship as a mechanism to support innovation in the nonprofit sector. By early 2004, the leaders of these organizations decided to meet regularly to collaboratively define and build the relatively unknown, and greatly misunderstood, field of fiscal sponsorship within the nonprofit sector. This group—Community Partners, Colorado Nonprofit Development Center, Earth Island Institute, PHFE Management Solutions, CIF of The San Francisco Foundation, Third Sector New England, and Tides Center—became known as the National Network of Fiscal Sponsors.
The group quickly concluded that in order to move this work forward, it was important to gain a deeper understanding of the current practice of fiscal sponsorship around the country. We worked together and created a field scan survey for fiscal sponsors. Click here to read the first ever field scan of fiscal sponsorship and to view other resources on our unique field of practice.
Tides Center maintains a modest online Fiscal Sponsor Directory. If you are a fiscal sponsor and would like to be included, contact Heidi Hernandez Gatty at hgatty(at)tides.org.
