Services — CWEC

Fiscal Sponsorship

Culture Workers Education Center offers fiscal sponsorship for projects that share our vision for a more just cultural landscape, worker advocacy, and select artist projects that make labor and workers more visible.

What is fiscal sponsorship?
If you are an individual, business, collective or group that does not have nonprofit status with the IRS you can use a nonprofit fiscal sponsor organization to receive funds on your behalf. Many times grantmakers will only provide grants to other nonprofits. Sometimes individual donors want a tax deduction to support your work - which they might not get if they send a check directly to you. Using a fiscal sponsor allows you to receive funds that must be awarded to a nonprofit without the difficulty of having to form and maintain your own 501(c)3 organization.

Eligibility

Your project must demonstrate alignment with CWEC’s mission and vision: to advance the recognition of cultural labor and opportunities for collective action - and contribute to a more just and equitable cultural workplace and landscape.  
The project can be a program, work(s) of art, research, ongoing organizational activities, or other project so long as it focuses on labor, work, and workers and is or will be publicly accessible.  
You do not currently have nonprofit status.  
You are able to sign a contract and provide periodic updates to CWEC on the progress of your fiscally sponsored project.

Requirements

The ability to clearly communicate your project’s alignment with CWEC’s work.
Demonstration that the anticipated funding is to support a project aligned with CWEC’s work. 
Submission of a final report (and interim report, if ongoing) on the outcomes of your fiscally sponsored project.  
Completion of a fiscal sponsorship contract.

Fees

A flat 5.5% fee for each grant/contribution received. 
A $50 fee to cover our administrative costs.  
Where do these fees go? They cover the time spent by CWEC’s members to process the contributions, contracts, acknowledgment letters, postage, and banking fees.

To request fiscal sponsorship or learn more, contact Natasha Bunten at natasha [at] cultureworkers [dot] org.

Solidarity

Private Meeting Space

We support workers looking to organize by providing free, conveniently located space for private and off-site meetings, planning sessions, or forums. If you would like to discuss scheduling, please contact Natasha Bunten, Director, at natasha [at] cultureworkers [dot] org.

Visibility

Do you need to get the word out about worker organizing, collective action, an important program, or call to action? Send it our way and we’ll share it in a newsletter, on our resource page, or social media. Our networks intersect the art, union, academic, public sector, and service industries - concentrated in New York and reaching people nationally. You can submit your request below.

Name

First Name

Last Name

Subject

Message

Please include the where and when, links to relevant content, and a short blurb that we could use to spread the word.

Your relationship

Please let us know your relationship to what you have shared...i.e. if it's a union campaign, are you in the union or a supporter sharing it in solidarity? If it's a program, are you in the program or work for the host institution, or is it generally of interest but you aren't directly involved?