Overview: 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.

Verdict: 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.

Having read his previous two books on the subject and now this one also, it is very plain so see that author Allan Harrison understands that the model is broken and that, in order to survive (and thrive), arts organizations need to understand that the art itself can’t be the only purpose. Donors, patrons and all our constituents nowadays care for so much causes and the art is simply not enough.

As with the aforementioned other two books on the subject matter, this one is also such an enjoyable book, well written, learned, and humbly supported prose; and one that comes with interesting data points along the way. Moreover, it helps provides solutions, grounded advice, and even case studies to propel the cause forward, to get the knowledge into more head, hearts and hands.

In short, and with it being a fun read too, make no mistake about that, Allan not only outlines and moreover addresses the many problems that are blocking the move forward, but he also manages to outline a definitive plan for success against all that choose to continue to blockade his attempts to push the non-profit performing arts project forward.

About the Author - 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.

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