Scene Change 3: The Ones Who Get It

Your nonprofit arts organization can succeed in changing the world...and here are some that already have.

For the third book in the SCENE CHANGE trilogy, you’ll discover that there are, in fact, nonprofit arts organizations in America that fulfill their nonprofit charter by centering their community’s needs over their own. In this book, you’ll discover nonprofit arts organizations that have saved people’s lives. Literally. As in, some people would be dead without their intervention. In this process, Alan Harrison studied the organizations for about a year and embedded in their operations. The result? Making your community quantifiably better can be done. It has been done. And this book will give you some ideas on how to transform your nonprofit arts organization, too.

Alan Harrison is a writer, father, performer, nonprofit executive, artist, and published author (in no particular order). For the past 30 years, he has led, produced, directed, promoted, raised money for, starred and failed in over 300 theatrical productions on and Off-Broadway and at prestigious (and not so prestigious) nonprofit arts organizations across the country. He’s also a two-time Jeopardy! champion so, you know, there’s that. The arts invoke passion (mostly from artists), but nonprofit arts are only successful when they result in measurably positive change among those that need it most. When a nonprofit’s donors are also its recipients, then its mission devolves into meaningless puffery, flapdoodle, and codswallop.