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News-Record.com - Greensboro, North Carolina: News: Museum woos corporate sector

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By Margaret Moffett Banks
Staff Writer

GREENSBORO -- Bryan. Reynolds. Cone. Weaver.

For the most part, it has been the Triad's tried-and-true philanthropists who have bankrolled the International Civil Rights Center and Museum since 2001 -- along with a couple of million dollars from taxpayers.

In the future, that list of major donors might read more like a string of commercials:

Starbucks. Crayola. Xerox. Federal Express.

Officials with the sit-in museum are quietly courting corporations, so far the weakest link in its cadre of donors."

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