One of the things I learned covering this controversy is how ill-informed many Savannah citizens are about the process of funding local nonprofits.
Cultural Affairs
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Editor’s Note: Three-year nonprofit funding phaseout is the devil in the details
I support the idea that nonprofits should have a diversified funding stream. But this clause comes uncomfortably close to comparing arts and social services nonprofits to welfare recipients, who just need a helping hand until they can stand on their own two feet, etc.
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Editor’s Note: Budget battle is only just beginning
City Manager Hernandez fielded citizens’ questions expertly and bluntly, always coming back to painting the same bleak picture: City finances are unsustainable in current form due mostly to the actions of his predecessors.
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Art Rise Savannah receives $5K Cultural Affairs grant
Art Rise Savannah has been awarded a $5,000 Cultural Project Investment Program from the City of Savannah’s Department of Cultural Affairs to develop their program, the First Friday Art March. […]
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Review: National Arts Program Exhibit
While discussions over the City’s 2011 budget continued last week, a different side of municipal government was highlighted by an exhibit that opened at the S.P.A.C.E. gallery on Henry Street […]
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Banking on Holly Days
’Tis the season for local businesses to try and figure out a way to attract holiday shoppers away from competing national chains and the lazy allure of e–commerce. “We certainly […]
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Westside story
SAVANNAH’S WESTSIDE covers a lot of ground. It’s bordered on the east by Lathrop Avenue, on the north by McKenna and West Bay streets, on the west by U.S. 80 […]
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Picnic in the Park photos
PICNIC IN THE PARK is in many ways the quintessential Savannah event: It’s outside, it involves lots of good food and drink, it celebrates the arts, and it’s free. Did […]