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Non-profit organizations can be found in just about every corner of the economy. They range from A to Z – arts organizations to the zoo. Not counting schools and churches, the Nashville area has an estimated 1,000 active non-profits, and that may be too many. With less cash to go around in the current economy, organizations are taking a second look at merging. Others are linking up out of sheer necessity. WPLN’s Blake Farmer reports.
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Non-profit organizations can be found in just about every corner of the economy. They range from A to Z – arts organizations to the zoo. Not counting schools and churches, the Nashville area has an estimated 1,000 active non-profits, and that may be too many. With less cash to go around in the current economy, organizations are taking a second look at merging. Others are linking up out of sheer necessity. WPLN’s Blake Farmer reports.
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Economy Pressures Some Non-Profits to Merge
11/30/09
Blake Farmer
Non-profit organizations can be found in just about every corner of the economy. They range from A to Z – arts organizations to the zoo. Not counting schools and churches, the Nashville area has an estimated 1,000 active non-profits, and that may be too many. With less cash to go around in the current economy, organizations are taking a second look at merging. Others are linking up out of sheer necessity. WPLN’s Blake Farmer reports.
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INTERVIEWS:
Patty Harman, CEO Monroe Harding
Lewis Lavine, CEO CNM
Marianne Schroer, board chair of Franklin’s Trust
People are still giving to charities through the economic recession, but not like they use to.
HARMAN: “Those would work if we were in a pinch, so…”
Patty Harman signs off on the tea-light candles for her age...
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INTRO:Non-profit organizations can be found in just about every corner of the economy. They range from A to Z – arts organizations to the zoo. Not counting schools and churches, the Nashville area has an estimated 1,000 active non-profits, and that may be too many. With less cash to go around in the current economy, organizations are taking a second look at merging. Others are linking up out of sheer necessity. WPLN’s Blake Farmer reports.
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