Expanding Your Fundraising Reach: Grants and Charitable Donations
In recent years, as buildout costs have skyrocketed and food access has grown ever more central to their purpose, startups have increasingly looked to grants and charitable contributions as an important tool in their financing toolbox. In this session, Leslie Watson and Vicky Chaput of the Cooperative Development Fund will introduce fiscal sponsorship as one pathway for co-ops, which are c corps on the federal level, to leverage grants and chaitable contributions available that are available to 501(c)(3) nonprofits through mission-driven partnership. We'll share success storeies and lessons learned fro co-ops who have tapped into fiscal sponsorship with a 501(c)(3) to help build their capital stack!