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Subject: Funding Drops, Layoffs, and Dark Clouds
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The Oregon Shakespeare Festival continues to reinvent itself as it emerges from one of the most challenging periods in its 90-year history. A year and a half after the departure of an embattled artistic director who sought to dismantle donor hierarchies and end the company’s reliance on “transactional philanthropy,” it is bringing back its perk-filled membership plan. It continues, however, to seek a wider audience, with targeted discounts and a spectrum of programming that includes untraditional approaches to the Bard. Like many theater companies around the country, the OSF is struggling to regain its footing after Covid closures, but it also saw donations drop during the short tenure of Nataki Garrett, a Black woman whose efforts to wean the festival off its dependence on older white donors alienated some longtime supporters. (Ashland News)
Background from the Chronicle: Race, Shakespeare, and a Theater’s Fight to Survive
In an episode that “matters in the broader fights over where to build more housing” around New York City, a Manhattan nonprofit weathered “brutal” opposition from neighborhood activists to develop an island of affordable housing on the Upper West Side. In an 11-story building where parking garages once stood, the West Side Federation relies heavily on local and federal subsidies to house older, formerly homeless, and low-income residents. Before it could start construction, though, the nonprofit had to make concessions to neighbors concerned about lost parking, congestion, and the potential effects of the project on a nearby school and park. (New York Times)
Background from the Chronicle: Affordable Housing: A Concern for Every Cause
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