Open Collective Foundation as a brigade fiscal host—Ask OCF staff anything!

Just a general note that services have varied approaches to how they can work with fiscally sponsored projects that all share an EIN. If it’s somewhere where we can set up one account and manage it centrally but give Collective access, we often can (e.g. OCF has a Google for Nonprofits account and this enables us to provide free emails for all Collectives with their own custom domain), or if the service is willing to create multiple accounts for different groups using our one status, we can enable that. We’re part of a pilot program at TechSoup that’s enabling fiscally sponsored groups to access TechSoup discounts via their umbrella org’s nonprofit status (which didn’t used to be possible).

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