Scene Change 2: The Five Real Responsibilities of Nonprofit Arts Boards

Today, nonprofit arts organizations are rushing into an elitist whirlpool of irrelevance. They're the only companies in the whole nonprofit sector where the beneficiary is also the donor. Donors donate so that donors may attend. In SCENE CHANGE, the first book in the series, we dived into the reasons that the arts have become simultaneously elitist and irrelevant in this Pre-Post-Pandemic Era in America. In SCENE CHANGE 2, we offer specific board responsibilities in order to create the space for the kind of charity for which communities are clamoring. This is a targeted list of the ways in which today's nonprofit arts organizations (theaters, symphonies, ballets, museums, operas, and all the rest) will have to significantly change their whole structure and the prism in which they do work. Companies that make these changes will be giving themselves the best chance to succeed in 2024 and beyond. Those that don't, won't.

Author: Alan Harrison
Publisher: Changemakers Books
Published: 01/01/2025
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.42lbs
Size: 8.48h x 5.49w x 0.36d
ISBN13: 9781803416984
ISBN10: 180341698X
BISAC Categories:
- Art | Business Aspects
- Business & Economics | Nonprofit Organizations & Charities | General
- Performing Arts | Business Aspects

About the Author
Based in Kirkland, Washington, Alan Harrison is a writer and speaker specializing in nonprofit arts organizations, strategy, and life politics. His blog posts appear regularly in major publications, including ArtsJournal. For 30 years, Alan Harrison has explored the relationships between the arts and the community on behalf of nonprofit arts organizations across the United States.