Join us for a fireside chat on working with fiscal sponsors to accomplish impact focused work. This webinar is ideal for forprofit businesses and mission driven startups who are interested in accessing grant funding from foundations and other groups that typically work with nonprofits.

OpenGrants CEO, Sedale Turbovsky, and expert consultant, Justin Brezhnev, will unpack the world of fiscal sponsorship and the amazing impact and opportunity that a fiscal sponsor can unlock.

The conversation will cover:
What is a fiscal sponsor?
How to find the right fiscal sponsor for your company
The realities of working with a fiscal sponsor (logistics, tax implications, ect.)

Speaker Information

Sedale Turbovsky, CEO & CoFounder, OpenGrants

Sedale Turbovsky is the CEO and cofounder of OpenGrants, a venturebacked startup focused on building modern infrastructure for funding. He has been an entrepreneur since childhood. After honing his leadership skills as an outdoor guide in his younger years, he started his professional career as an independent consultant focused on delivering data products and digital strategies to enterprise clients in South America.

Justin Brezhnev, Founder & ED, Hacker Fund

Justin (aka "Brezh") has served as the "hacker cat" daytoday since 2014 and wrote the playbook on fiscal sponsorship for hackers. After launching Hacktech and LA Hacks while at UCLA, he built the coaching program at Major League Hacking that now serves over 65,000 hackers internationally, and then became one of the top hackathon organizers in the world through his time at Hacker Fund. He is a member of the Association of Fundraising Professionals and Grant Professionals Association, has raised millions of dollars as fundraising counsel for social enterprises, and was listed on Forbes 30 under 30 for his work in education.

Brezhnev has been running his nonprofit Hacker Fund in Los Angeles since 2014, pairing high school and middle school students with mentors at more than 150 companies including Apple, Google and Microsoft to solve coding problems. He has organized hackathons and mobilized mentors to reach more than 50,000 students in all 50 states, and partnered with LA Tech, a Los Angeles nonprofit, to provide mentors for its initiative to get 1,000 students internships in tech.