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Are there too many arts organizations in the Miami Valley?
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By Terry Morris,
Staff Writer
Updated 10:23 AM Friday, February 5, 2010
DAYTON — Thirteen arts organizations have decided to pay for their own $10,000 plan to answer that question after the Dayton Foundation-led Non-Profit Alliance Support Program (NASP) rejected their funding request.
The arts community’s proposal “didn’t fit the guidelines,” which called for “significant partnerships or mergers,” said Barbara Stonerock, director of community relations for the Dayton Foundation.
“We were disappointed, but we had funding to do our own study lined up within 48 hours,” said the arts groups’ spokesman Ken Neufeld, president and CEO of the Victoria Theatre and Arts Center Foundation.
Some arts leaders expressed doubt that any plan short of a merger like that which created Dayton History would have won a $7,000 grant that would have paid for 70 percent of the study. The 13 arts groups’ combined annual income is more than $36.4 million.
Funded by the Dayton Foundation, Montgomery County and the Dayton Power & Light Foundation, NASP was launched in March 2009 to encourage nonprofit partnerships and alliances.
Dayton Foundation President Mike Parks estimated that the region has 4,000 nonprofit organizations, and they are increasing at the rate of 5 percent a year. Responses such as “combining back-room functions won’t do it,” he said.
Area arts groups have rallied around the need to do their own study about combining staff, facilities and services. They are hiring a consultant affiliated with National Arts Strategies in Washington, D.C., to lead “a visioning process to identify where we are and where we want to go,” Neufeld said.
Arts groups nationally face the same questions. Released last week, the first National Arts Index reported sobering trends of dwindling contributions and ticket sales, but continued growth in the numbers of organizations.
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