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In early 2024, Alan Harrison laid out the problem and gave you a path. The result: SCENE CHANGE: WHY TODAY'S NONPROFIT ARTS ORGANIZATIONS HAVE TO STOP PRODUCING ART AND START PRODUCING IMPACT.

In late 2024, Harrison gave you discussion prompts and rules to help you figure out the answers on your own. The result: SCENE CHANGE 2: THE FIVE REAL RESPONSIBILITIES OF NONPROFIT ARTS BOARDS.

And now, in 2025, he will show you that not only can success happen when you choose to focus on your community before you decide to focus on the art, but it has happened. It's happening at other organizations right now, despite everything coming out of Washington, DC.

This is the third and final book of the SCENE CHANGE trilogy, all giving readers the best tools to transforming your arts organization from a tool for toxic elitists to a a tool of charity. In SCENE CHANGE 3: THE ONES WHO GET IT, 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.

SCENE CHANGE 3: THE ONES WHO GET IT has been named to Kirkus Reviews list of BEST 25 INDIE BOOKS OF 2025. This was their review:

"An example-driven new map to success in the realm of nonprofit theater. In this latest installment of his Scene Change series, the author once again looks at various organizations that are pursuing what he views as the essential mission of community arts, which is to improve the community, using theater and other arts as means to that end. Harrison contrasts this vision of nonprofit arts organizations with the way they're too often seen by the people who run them as for-profit commercial enterprises in which box office revenue is the most important thing. In these pages, he first breaks down the logistics of how nonprofits work and should work, from the nuances of marketing to the nitty-gritty of IRS filings. The author then examines the working methods and cultural impact of some nonprofits that have shaken off what he views as wrong-headed priorities and are both serving and challenging their communities.

Harrison is glowingly enthusiastic about all of this, the perfect ambassador for introducing the world of nonprofit arts to newcomers; he's also the perfect blend of cheerleader and tough-love coach for those already in the nonprofit world who may not be keeping their priorities straight (or may not quite know what those priorities should be). Harrison's prose reflects his expertise but is often light and humorous. He is refreshingly willing to ask hard questions about the realities of nonprofit art groups today, reminding readers that, in addition to their missions, nonprofits have their own rules and responsibilities. Harrison's analysis of the root of nonprofit problems-he believes they too often devolve into entities to please big donors (which "begets toxicity among donors, executives, and board leadership, and provides an elitist barrier to participants")-is astute and characteristically pulls no punches. The author is equally frank in addressing the social issues that affect community projects, including the Black Lives Matter movement and the Covid-19 pandemic. Anyone involved in the nonprofit arts world will gain immeasurably from reading this book (and its two enjoyably opinionated predecessors).

A punchy, outspoken argument for how nonprofit arts organizations should be run."

If you work in the nonprofit arts industry in Seattle - theaters, museums, orchestras, jazz, opera, ballet and all the others - these are the books you need to get and Alan Harrison is the author you need to meet. 

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About Alan Harrison: Alan Harrison is a writer, father, performer, consultant, recovering artist, and the author of the industry best-seller "Scene Change: Why Today's Nonprofit Arts Organizations Have to Stop Producing Art and Start Producing Impact, "Scene Change 2: The Five REAL Responsibilities of Nonprofit Arts Boards," and his latest and last of the trilogy, "Scene Change 3: The Ones Who Get It." For 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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