Jan 10 2009
One of my predictions comes true
Recently I made five predictions for 2009. Sadly, one of them is on its way to coming true. The Detroit News reported:
Metro Detroit’s hard-pressed arts organizations are reeling from a new blow. The GM Foundation has asked high-profile presenters like the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and Michigan Opera Theatre to exclude the foundation from budget planning effective immediately.
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The cancellations are part of the GM Foundation’s global suspension of major gift disbursements that amounted to $31.4 million in 2007, the last year for which the foundation has a complete accounting.
The Music Hall Center for the Performing Arts lost out on $350,000. The president of the Music Hall was “stunned”, according to the story, because they’d recently lost funding from DTE (the electrical utility company).
But so far, the other four predictions haven’t materialized. Only two black squirrel sightings…
