Ultimately attendance will rise and donations increase if the public is excited by the art.
After accepting the offer donations to the monument fund increased.
The Children's Aid Society reported that its donations have increased about 5 percent, or $200,000.
Private donations have increased over the last decade, officials said.
Now, as the scale of the tragedy sinks in, the donations have increased substantially.
The recent million-dollar donations have increased the amount raised for the capital campaign to $65 million.
At the same time, donations from high-ticket givers has increased as well.
While donations have increased with each ride, the amount spent on overhead has not.
If attendance begins to decline, corporations and other private sponsors, whose donations to the arts also increased in the 1980's, may begin to back away.
As time wore on, and donations to the defense increased, more lawyers were added.