Guidelines for Comprehensive Fiscal Sponsorship
A short paper setting out administrative, financial and legal good practice for comprehensive fiscal sponsorship, where a host nonprofit takes a project in as its own programme. It was written by a group of fiscal sponsors who practise this model, many working for social justice. Sponsors use it to set their own standards. Project leaders and funders use it to judge whether a sponsor runs the arrangement well.
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National Network of Fiscal Sponsors (2010). Guidelines for Comprehensive Fiscal Sponsorship. https://search.issuelab.org/resource/guidelines-for-comprehensive-fiscal-sponsorship
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