Despite everything, Harvard chooses to keep the Sackler name on its museum. Why? Back in 2022, members of the Harvard College Overdose Prevention and Education Students, a campus group dedicated to overdose awareness, petitioned Harvard’s administration to remove Arthur M. Sackler’s name from campus buildings. The petition was not a haphazard one and had teeth because it … [Read more...] about What’s Next, Fair Harvard? The Alois Hitler Theaterzentrum?
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Scene Change 2 Now Available for Preorder
Assuming that your board has no clear sense of why they’re representing their nonprofit arts organization’s work, there’s a handbook for that. The first essay of the school year is usually some throwaway set of paragraphs entitled, “How I Spent My Summer Vacation.” This is kinda that. I’ve been exceptionally busy over the last month doing podcasts, interviews, and signings … [Read more...] about Scene Change 2 Now Available for Preorder
Last of the Summer Whine
The seven attributes of a successful nonprofit arts organization. You gotta do all seven to win. Before I take off for a month, I thought I’d let you in on the secret to success for nonprofit arts organizations. Note how “raising money” is not among the things on the list. That’s a business practice, not an attribute of success. Of course you’ll have to raise money! That … [Read more...] about Last of the Summer Whine
Nonprofit Arts Leaders: Just Like the Overhead Myth, Ratios are Ridiculous
Plus: a bonus, non-hypothetical question for you! Now that the end of the fiscal year has passed, and while you're busy toting up the red ink and how you'll hide it from the board and your funders, let's all try not to make the same mistakes regarding your marketing budget for the coming year, okay? This one’s not for the marketing folks. They know what they’re doing. … [Read more...] about Nonprofit Arts Leaders: Just Like the Overhead Myth, Ratios are Ridiculous
This Just In: A New (and Unedited) Review for “SCENE CHANGE”
Many in the nonprofit arts sector will decry this manifesto as heresy, only validating its necessity. Harrison presents a radical new vision for nonprofit arts organizations in this nonfiction work. Drawing on his 30 years of experience in nonprofit theater, the author breaks down, in easy-to-understand language, the United States tax code and the ways in which … [Read more...] about This Just In: A New (and Unedited) Review for “SCENE CHANGE”