Boston's Endangered Small Arts Groups

As a Bostonian by birth and Philadelphian by choice, I'm always interested in comparisons between these cities, which have so much in common but are also completely different. [The basic text on the subject is, of course, the late Digby Baltzell's Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia, which traced the divergent paths of these two siblings to their founding religions-the civic-minded, hierarchical, and scholarly Puritans generating political leaders and intellectuals; the family-minded, commercial, egalitarian Quakers generating businesses and private institutions. It's all in the first chapter, really.]

...but that's not what I'm writing about. The Chroncle of Philanthropy drew my attention to a story in the Boston Globe about a report from the Boston Foundation, that apparently argues that the city's proliferation of small, struggling arts organizations suggest that some of those groups begin to plan an "exit strategy." To protest this finding & to call attention to the need of small arts groups, some of these organizations are having a 'die-in.'