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Inclusion, Social Justice, Equity, Diversity Thaddeus Squire Inclusion, Social Justice, Equity, Diversity Thaddeus Squire

Breaking through Boundaries: Fiscal Sponsors & Equity in Fundraising

With the tremendous battle for racial and economic equity in our country, it’s certainly time to break barriers and conventions. To advance equity in our work as fiscal sponsors, we need to consider how our support should be allocated to leaders and projects that, for example: do not have funds (or access to funds) when then show up at our door; do not conform to received (white) notions of impact, excellence, professionalism, etc.; or may not hold traditional “business” or “management” practices as key to their success.

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Social Justice, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, Fiscal Sponsorship Thaddeus Squire Social Justice, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, Fiscal Sponsorship Thaddeus Squire

Fiscal Sponsors & The Question of Equity

The field of fiscal sponsorship, from its origins in the late 1950s and Civil Rights Movement, has had a strong grounding in equity, inclusion, diversity, and social justice. Like their close cousins, cooperatives, fiscal sponsors offer approaches to building and sharing resources among an intentional community. As tax-exempt organizations and cooperative-like business models, fiscal sponsors can offer an alternative economic and social structure to the alienating and disenfranchising forces of market-driven capitalism and the private sector.

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