He lacks a deep fund-raising network and his name recognition is low, but he was among the finalists Senator John McCain was considering for his running mate in 2008.
He has a deep fund-raising base, and has staked out policy positions to the left of his major rivals, with a call for a quick withdrawal from Iraq and an ambitious plan for universal health care.
Given this landscape, theaters' survival will depend on their ingenuity in reaching new audiences, as well as on prudent financial management and access to a deep fund-raising pool.
500 Startups, a Silicon Valley seed fund & accelerator, announced 500 Istanbul, a $15 million micro-fund for Turkish startups on October 5. Still, Cem Soysal, the general manager of Inventram, an early stage tech and IP investment firm, noted, Turkey still needs a "deeper funding competence on the "money" side for continuity".
"Both [are] supporting me in my exploration for building a deep tech fund," she says.
In a time of deep funding cuts, imbalances in funding and company closures, this initiative presents an opportunity for theatres to shout about the great work they do, reach wider audiences and make contacts and collaborate with other venues and stage companies from across the world.
The paper notes that the fees from trophy lion hunting are essential sources of revenue in an era of deep funding strictures for conservation projects.
Dozens of Scottish arts companies and art centres are facing deep funding cuts and job losses under a radical restructuring of spending by the national arts agency Creative Scotland.
Universities also have deep funds to draw upon.
But over the past few years, AIDS funding in South Carolina has faced deep funding cuts, according to Harvard University's State Healthcare Access Research Project.
