June 13, 2010
Foundations Offer Operating Support to Help Arts Groups in Tough Times
Chris Bartelski
Theatrical Outfit is one of the Atlanta-area groups that won support.
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Chris Bartelski
Theatrical Outfit is one of the Atlanta-area groups that won support.
Theatre in the Square, a nonprofit playhouse in Marietta, Ga., has weathered its share of economic downturns since its founding in 1982. But the company’s managing director, Raye Varney, says the current economic downturn has decimated her charity’s fund-raising efforts, which rely heavily on the philanthropy of housing developers and financial institutions. “Over a year and a half we lost 75 percent of our corporate support,” she says. “It was
