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good afternoon welcome to venables monthly non-profit webinar i am bob waldman a partner at venable and i'd like to welcome my guest co-presenter today chuck adkins the chief financial officer at the fund for educational excellence we're speaking today on the topic of fiscal sponsorships legal and practical issues so let me start with uh the basic question of what is a fiscal sponsorship so a fiscal sponsorship is a situation that involves a 501c3 charitable organization which is known as the fiscal sponsor and the fiscal sponsor is an organization that's willing to accept contributions to fund a project that's either housed at the fiscal sponsor itself or that's being sponsored by a non-charitable organization and i'll give you a simple exam frankly it's the first example i ever encountered on dealing with fiscal sponsorships it involved a situation with uh believe it or not a hot dog vendor who had set up a stand outside of a school and every morning when kids would come to school he