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(April 25, 2009) - Tom Kaiden from the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance says the Abington Art Center is not an anomaly.

"What we're seeing is arts participation is pretty strong personally, and attendance-based," he says. "It's on contributions where they're hurting."

Many nonprofits make only half of their budgets from earned income, he says, but arts groups are "used to making do with less. . . . This experience is familiar to them."

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