The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Getting a Head Start

Fiscal sponsorship helps fledgling charitable programs fly

Chris Baty never planned to start a nonprofit organization. It sneaked up on him. In 1999, buzzed on caffeine in a San Francisco-area coffee shop, he and a group of his friends dared one another to write novels in 30 days. That first year, 21 people accepted the challenge.

The following year,...

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