Fiscal Sponsorship 101: Introduction, Trends, and Guidance
Apr 08, 2025 9:30AM—11:30AM
Location
The Jessie 40 E. Adams St Jacksonville, FL 32202
Cost Free for Nonprofit Center Members; $50 for non-members
Categories Access to Capital, Ahead of the Curve Board Series, CEO/Executive Leadership, Hot Topics and Advocacy Events
Topics Ahead of the Curve Board Series, CEO/Executive Leadership, Hot Topics & Advocacy Events, Senior Leadership, Strategy and Organizational Development
The Northeast Florida Nonprofit sector is lacking a program that supports shared infrastructure exploration and fiscal sponsorship. As reported by Social Impact Commons, a 2023 Fiscal Sponsor Field Scan did not receive any responses from sponsors in Florida.
In this session, you will hear from Thaddeus Squire, Chief Commons Steward for Social Impact Commons, the national experts in fiscal sponsorship, to learn more about the strategy they have defined as Comprehensive Fiscal Sponsorship, which centers accessible design principles so that partnerships formed between organizations are co-managed and have shared governance structures. This evidence-based approach allows for intentional community building and ongoing learning around sustainable structures for nonprofit mission delivery. This program is ideal for CEOs, Operational Leaders, and Board members – bring your team and have plenty of time to ask questions and get answers!
About our Facilitator: Thaddeus Squire has more than 25 years of experience in the nonprofit management field, focusing on arts and cultural heritage. A serial nonprofit entrepreneur, he founded Peregrine Arts in 2004, a multi-arts producer, followed by Hidden City Philadelphia, among other curatorial projects. In 2010 he shifted his practice to focus on shared nonprofit infrastructure, founding CultureWorks Greater Philadelphia in 2010, the first comprehensive fiscal sponsor focusing on arts and heritage in the country, which grew to steward more than 120 independent organizations under his leadership. Following CultureWorks, in 2020, he co-founded Social Impact Commons, the first nonprofit supporting organization and field builder for the national fiscal sponsorship community. Thaddeus’s creative practice is focused on systems design for nonprofit resource sharing, in particular practices based in commoning and commons management principles and other Solidarity Economy models. In his free time, he cultivates interests in horticulture and garden design, history of philanthropy and the nonprofit sector, political economy, nonprofit management, and cultural stewardship, which he explores through his Substack, The Undersector and through frequent speaking engagements. Thaddeus holds degrees from Princeton University, the University of Leipzig (J. William Fulbright Fellowship), and the Mendelssohn Conservatory of Music & Theatre.
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