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Article: Dr. Phillips Charities gives $25 million for arts center.
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- The Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, FL)
- Article date:
- December 15, 2006
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Byline: Elizabeth Maupin
Dec. 15--The proposed Orlando performing-arts center has a name -- and is $25 million richer for it. Thanks to a gift from the Dr. Phillips Charities, the arts complex planned for downtown will be the Dr. P. Phillips Orlando Performing Arts Center. The $25 million from the Orlando-based charitable group boosts the amount raised privately for the center to $45.5 million -- almost halfway toward the stated goal of $100 million. "We're just hardly breathing, we're so excited," said Rita Bornstein, president emerita of Rollins College and chair of the center's fundraising committee. "I can't think of a better fit -- the name of ...