Thursday, June 02, 2005

Lowell Sun Online - Local-State of local charitable giving the main topic at annual forum

Lowell Sun Online - Local: "State of local charitable giving the main topic at annual forum
By MICHAEL LAFLEUR, Sun Staff



LOWELL -- It began with a warning about the dire financial straits in which several local nonprofit organizations, particularly the city's cultural institutions, now find themselves.
But yesterday's ninth annual Philanthropy Day forum at the DoubleTree Riverfront Hotel in Lowell, with the theme Celebrate Giving, ended on a much more uplifting note.
The warning was issued by David Kronberg, executive director of the Greater Lowell Community Foundation, which sponsored yesterday's event. He said government funding cuts,
coupled with private, charitable foundations' stock-market losses, have combined to create a steadily worsening donor climate. "

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