Greensboro Symphony to get stimulus money

http://www.news-record.com ^ | July 9, 2009 | Dawn DeCwikiel-Kane

[Rebelbase]

GREENSBORO — The Greensboro Symphony Orchestra will be able to keep two of its full-time staff jobs, thanks to $50,000 in federal stimulus money.

The symphony is among seven nonprofit arts organizations in North Carolina that will receive grants totaling $325,000 through the National Endowment for the Arts. The money comes from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

The NEA received $50 million to preserve nonprofit arts jobs threatened by declines in support during the economic downturn.

The symphony and Triad Stage were the only groups in Guilford County eligible for direct NEA grants, because they had received NEA funding in the past four years. Each had sought $50,000.

Triad Stage did not receive a grant, an NEA spokeswoman said.

The downtown professional theater had sought money to help keep four production positions. It will have to find other sources of funding to keep those staff members, said Steven Box, sales and marketing director.

Lisa Crawford, symphony president and CEO, called its grant “a big, big help.”

It will enable the symphony to maintain its full-time marketing director and education manager, two of its four full-time positions.

But more challenges are ahead, Crawford said.

[Rebelbase]

As a nation we've stepped through the looking glass.

[Rebelbase]

Madness ping.

[DoughtyOne]

I know I'm thrilled to be supporting their symphony.  /s

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[Bertha Fanation]

That’s a sad note

[EGPWS]

The Greensboro Symphony Orchestra will be able to keep two of its full-time staff jobs, thanks to $50,000 in federal stimulus money.

How long before the money turns into IOU's?

Only Behjing knows.

[Kandy Atz]

If they are not entertaining enough to receive all their support from the private sector, they probably should not exist.

Same goes for NPR, PBS and just about every charitable organization stealing/wasting our tax money. This is not the role of the Federal government.

[EGPWS]

It will enable the symphony to maintain its full-time marketing director and education manager, two of its four full-time positions.

But more challenges are ahead, Crawford said.

Ah yes, the never ending story of liberal redistribution....

[taxtruth]

What's odd with this story is that the city is robbing the property owners and annexing property without a hearing and the police department has been under investigation for years + the murder rate is soaring.The city council is a mess and they need to be investigated.The council operates many times behind closed doors.Transparency at its best in small town/city USA.

[Drango]

shovel ready!

[taxtruth]

More like corn cob ready,my family resides in that nightmare city.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

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[Lurker]

thanks to $50,000 in federal stimulus money.

Mere words can not express how pleased Mrs. L and I are that almost the exact amount of money we paid in Federal taxes last year has been given to this organization to 'save' these two 'jobs'.

/S.

I swear to G*d...this is the kind of sh** that makes me want to start.....

[hinckley buzzard]

I'm sure all those unemployed bluecollar workers are glad some North Carolina symphony can pay their tax dollars to an education director.

Hope 'n' change, eh boys?

[Rebelbase]

"shovel ready!"

[Intolerant in NJ]

The Greensboro Symphony Orchestra will be able to keep two of its full-time staff jobs, thanks to $50,000 in federal stimulus money...for probably another year - and then?......

[Constitution Day]

Just damn. I wonder how many similar but ridiculous stories are to be found all across NC?

[Constitution Day]

LOL!!

[DoughtyOne]

We should not have to pay tens of thousands of dollars per family in the U.S. to support the beast.

You have full my support for not wanting to.

[Lurker]

What scares me is not what I don't want to do. It's what stories like this make me want to do that scares me.