Fiscal Sponsorship: Is this a creative partnership? Moneymaker? Or organizational time-suck?

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  • Presentation speakers
    • Wayne Hazzard, Executive Director, Dancers' Group
    • Jessica Robinson Love, Executive Director, CounterPULSE
    • Deborah Cullinan, Executive Director, Intersection for the Arts

  Lecture

  Many arts organizations, service providers and dance presenters are being asked to fiscally sponsor local dance artists, companies, special projects and even educational entities. While providing this valuable service can allow them to be more responsive to community needs, and to better support more creative and/or culturally specific working structures within the dance field, there are significant questions that any entity looking to start a fiscal sponsorship program needs to ask.

  CounterPULSE, Dancers’ Group and Intersection for the Arts administer fiscal sponsorship programs that exemplify excellence in how they’ve structured their programs that match their mission and serve hundreds of artists each year. They will describe the artistic, managerial, marketing, and production assistance these arrangements provide artists, companies and other start-up entities, which do not have their own nonprofit status.

  This session will also address questions like “when is the right time to choose to incorporate as a 501(c)3?” and for those that choose not to operate within the traditional nonprofit institutional structure, examples will be given on how those entities are flourishing , creating hybrid structures and even addressing perceptions of some out-of-date models of what it means to be successful.

 

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