Star-Telegram | 06/27/2005 | Nonprofits face challenges to stay afloat: "onprofits face challenges to stay afloat
By Mary Rogers
Star-Telegram Staff Writer
Everyone involved with community service knows that competition for the benefit dollar becomes more ferocious as nonprofits proliferate.
Philanthropy means 'love of the people,' and Fort Worth's most generous givers most certainly do embrace the needs of humankind. They remember the arts, too -- and in a big way.
Tarrant County has more than 250 charitable foundations, an eye-popping number when you consider that the entire state of New Mexico has fewer than five major foundations, says John Robinson, the executive who heads the Amon Carter Foundation, one of the city's largest giving organizations.
But philanthropy is changing -- and so is this city."
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