Fiscal Sponsorship
Through our fiscal sponsorship program, the Good Work Institute provides support to Just Transition-aligned initiatives working here in the Mahicantuck/Hudson Valley. We enable new ideas to take root quickly and community-led projects to grow.
We see our fiscally-sponsored projects as partners in our mission to build collective power, to reject systems of oppression and extraction, and create regenerative, just, and life-affirming communities.
We work with passionate leaders, organizers, and change agents. Fiscal sponsorship helps them access critical sources of funding, while allowing them the freedom to focus their efforts on the work at hand. We offer Model C fiscal sponsorship to mission-aligned initiatives in our region. We welcomed Kingston Common Futures as our first Model A project in September 2024, and may extend this service to other projects in the future.
To date, we have helped over 45 fiscally-sponsored projects access more than $12 million in charitable funds. We support a variety of charitable projects that respond to many of society’s more pressing issues. From farms working on food security, to groups exploring cooperative structures for housing and land access, to educational projects on rights and ecological sustainability.
What is fiscal sponsorship?
Many funders are only able to give to nonprofit 501(c)3 organizations, meaning that emerging initiatives are either cut off from these funds, or must go through the intensive process of forming their own nonprofit, with all of the administrative and governance responsibilities that come along with that. Fiscal sponsorship allows us to provide an effective and compliant way to accept funds on behalf of these initiatives under our nonprofit tax status and offer ongoing support as they evolve.
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