Spring Round of Benefits Goes On, but on a Smaller Scale

The springtime benefits that are a tradition for many nonprofit groups are largely going on as scheduled despite the recession, but many groups are taking steps to scale back the events, reports The New York Times.

Some charities are holding benefits in donors’ homes or joining forces with other organizations to cut costs.

“You have to think outside the box,” said Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, a board member at the Food Allergy Initiative, whose recent benefit luncheon shared flower arrangements, sound and lighting equipment, and other expenses with another charity holding an event the same day in the same place. “You can’t just think in the old way based on the budgets we had in the past.”

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