Insights
What we’re thinking and learning about right now, news that matters to nonprofits, and events and happenings in and around TSNE MissionWorks and the NonProfit Center.
Jun 19 2017 | By Jennifer J.A. Fitch
Most days, my job at TSNE involves working with our fiscally sponsored projects using computers and calculators. Today though, my work in service to Gardening the Community involved using spades and wheelbarrows weeding a three-quarter acre plot at their farm... → More Categories: Fiscal Sponsorship
Jan 12 2017 | Josh Sattely, Esq., TSNE MissionWorks
How can the philanthropic sector best identify and support promising new initiatives? → More Categories: Fiscal Sponsorship
Sep 10 2015 | By Sandy St. Louis, Director of Communications, Third Sector New England
The field of software development—and the technology industry in general—is overwhelmingly dominated by men. According to Ada Developers Academy (Ada), 85% of software programmers are male. → More Categories: Fiscal Sponsorship
Sep 09 2015 | By Sandy St. Louis, Director of Communications, TSNE MissionWorks
“Never quit. And never give up hope,” advises Sheila Denion, Project Director for the Connecticut Network to Abolish the Death Penalty (CNADP), in the wake of another landmark ruling to repeal capital punishment, both prospectively in 2012, and now... → More Categories: Fiscal Sponsorship, Social Justice
Aug 21 2014 | by Sandy St. Louis, Director of Communications, Third Sector New England
This year we are excited to work with Active Living By Design (ALBD) and its executive director, Sarah Strunk. ALBD recently transitioned out of its university home, where it incubated and grew the program from its inception in 2002. → More Categories: Fiscal Sponsorship
Feb 28 2014 | By Jonathan Spack, Chief Executive Officer, TSNE MissionWorks
Fiscal Sponsorship at TSNE MissionWorks can be a bridge or a long-term partner in your nonprofit venture. → More
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Feb 13 2014 | By Alyssa Sternick
Boston Family Boat Building provides underserved students in Boston-area public schools with the resources necessary to get out of the classroom and approach learning from a fresh, experiential angle. Specifically, the program offers both students and their... → More
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Feb 13 2014 | by Jonathan Spack, Chief Executive Officer, Third Sector New England
When Tracy Hewitt founded Resource Generation in 1998 to help wealthy young people reach out to the disadvantaged and promote social justice, she realized that her new group lacked the administrative capacity to support its programmatic efforts. So she... → More
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Feb 13 2014 | By Josh Sattely, Compliance and Legal Affairs Specialist
Third Sector New England
Fiscal sponsors have traditionally been viewed as incubators of nonprofits, providing support to fledgling initiatives until they are ready to spread their wings as stand-alone, 501(c)(3) organizations. Although this is sometimes the case, research indicates... → More
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Feb 13 2014
The Center to Support Immigrant Organizing (CSIO) was founded in 2000 as a result of an assessment by a group of longtime immigrant rights advocates. The organizers identified the multiple barriers immigrant communities face in their efforts to organize for... → More
Categories: Fiscal Sponsorship