MY MENTAL LIST OF CULTURAL ORGANIZATIONS ABOUT TO GO UNDER was significantly lengthened this week. Just yesterday a neighbor told me that a small environmental/ natural history research organization she works with was about to fold. She was told that the board was casting around for a place to transfer the organization's collections of books, maps, photos and videos (although no one knows exactly where that will be despite the fact that they may have to shut their doors in a couple of weeks). The day before that, a colleague called to say she was retiring from her organization and that there's a movement afoot to dissolve it (not her doing). A third organization has burned through its endowment fund to the point where some board members think it's time to close the whole place down. That's all in just the last week. I've been hearing for a long time that the pace of consolidations and dissolutions in the nonprofit sector would speed up as the ...