As recently announced on their Facebook page, Fusion Partnerships is winding down its fiscal sponsorship program. This is the second major fiscal sponsor organization in Baltimore to do so (Strong City’s collapse started around summer 2020).
Fusion Partnerships is, as far as I can tell, the fiscal sponsor for about 100 organizations. Among these, of general interest to the dance community…
- 2640 Space
- 901 Arts
- ARTpartheid
- Asian Pasifika Arts Collective
- Baltimore Arts Resistance
- Baltimore Rhythm Festival
- Baltimore Youth Arts
… and whatever remains of the Baltimore Dance Crews Project (as far as I can tell, BDCP mostly disappeared in 2020/2021, but remains listed as a partner organization on Fusion’s site) and RICH in Music (also appears to wind down about the same time). Baltimore Rhythm Festival was a Strong City refugee that landed at Fusion, so they have felt this pain before.
I have not had the time to dig into the status of all the groups this will impact, and this is a space for dance, but the rest of the sponsored groups do important and relevant work. The full list is (for now…) still available here.
These are challenging times for so many people, but if you’ve got a way to help or support these (and the rest of the soon-to-be Fusion refugees…), please build that community. We all need it.