Take a Chance on a Picasso?

Ruth McCambridge

December 20, 2010

December 19, 2010; Source: Citizen-Times | My heart is beating so fast I can hardly write this. The Transylvania Community Arts Council in North Carolina has a small etching by the master Pablo Picasso that it is raffling off for $100 a ticket. The piece was donated and is worth $28,000 and the arts council is hoping to raise as much as $60,000 from it.

Picasso Etching

The donation has been a bit of a godsend. Tammy Hopkins, executive director of The Transylvania Community Arts Council says, “We are down about $40,000-$50,000 in funding. Grants organizations have told us to not even bother to apply for the next two years. We used to have five staff members; now we have (one full-time person and one part-time worker).”—Ruth McCambridge

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Ruth McCambridge

Ruth is Editor Emerita of the Nonprofit Quarterly. Her background includes forty-five years of experience in nonprofits, primarily in organizations that mix grassroots community work with policy change. Beginning in the mid-1980s, Ruth spent a decade at the Boston Foundation, developing and implementing capacity building programs and advocating for grantmaking attention to constituent involvement.

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