July 24, 2008
Struggling to Stay Afloat
As states slash budgets, charities feel the squeeze
Christine Brown recently called her local United Way with an urgent request: Do you provide emergency grants to charities that are facing hard times because of state budget cuts?
Ms. Brown co-chairs the board of A New Leaf, a small nonprofit florist and garden shop in Providence, R.I., that hires and trains adults with psychiatric disabilities. Rhode Island, like many other states, faced a hefty revenue shortfall when it put together its budget for the 2009 fiscal year —
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