Arts Nonprofits Grapple With Effects Of COVID Year
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After more than a year of shuttered venues and cancelled performances, arts and entertainment nonprofit organizations are grappling with devastating amounts of lost revenue and facing a longer road to recovery than any other sector of nonprofits.
The core of many arts nonprofits live, in-person performances was impossible to provide during the pandemic, leaving organizations scrambling to make up revenue.
“That loss to gather together, which all of us experienced, for the performing arts, it meant that the core of what we do is simply not safe,” said David Brower, the executive director of PineCone, a Raleigh-based nonprofit dedicated to promoting traditional music.