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FEELING THE SQUEEZE

Museums and arts groups brace for dip in donations

''I am a museum that has no endowment. I have to raise my operating costs every single year,'' says Katherine French of the Danforth Museum of Art in Framingham. ''I am a museum that has no endowment. I have to raise my operating costs every single year,'' says Katherine French of the Danforth Museum of Art in Framingham. (Bill Greene/Globe Staff)
By Geoff Edgers
Globe Staff / October 5, 2008

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When the Berkshire Museum needed $10 million for an expansion project, Kenneth Nash stepped up. A lifelong Pittsfield resident, Nash, 77, gave $100,000 in 2006. And that wasn't his first stroke of generosity. (Full article: 1114 words)

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