In Reply to: Anne was the Manager and main fundraiser for the Opera before the merger.... posted by Ivan303 on July 22, 2014 at 15:26:55:
Yes, I get your point. Not the first time a board goes for wholesale reductions in staff without thinking carefully about the consequences. I know nothing about that situation in Utah, but I do know that even if donors had no idea the two organizations were administratively combined, less staff = less work = less results can apply in the arts as in any other business. Sounds like Anne sold them on a bad idea to make herself more powerful and eliminate the competition of second similar organization (as you say, donors may have seen it differently and decided they could give half as much) and then left the mess for something else when she got a better job offer.
But I'd blame the boards for letting all that happen.
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- RE: Anne was the Manager and main fundraiser for the Opera before the merger.... - rbolaw 18:06:42 07/22/14 (1)
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