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Born in the DSA*: Little Donny Dingdong Be Damned**, Let Everybody Vote

December 16, 2025 by Alan Harrison Leave a Comment

Let’s stop cocking around and just let people vote in peace. This will the last post for 2025. I’ll be back in the first week of January. For now, let’s talk about voting. In this meh land of ours, voting has always been restricted. One by one, restrictions based on sex, creed, color, religion, land ownership, and hair color have been removed. Today, what’s supposed … [Read more...] about Born in the DSA*: Little Donny Dingdong Be Damned**, Let Everybody Vote

Born in the DSA*: It’s Time to Sign a New Declaration of Independence

November 11, 2025 by Alan Harrison 2 Comments

The time will never be more right to create Pacifica, the seventh largest economy in the world, by disabusing ourselves of the dangerous DSA cultists forever. Just sign your name in the comments and join us. When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among … [Read more...] about Born in the DSA*: It’s Time to Sign a New Declaration of Independence

Nonprofit Arts Success in a Changing Environment, Tip 6 — Don’t Talk About It; Do It.

March 25, 2025 by Alan Harrison 2 Comments

Doing the right thing is always the right thing to do. It’s right there in the phrase. In the new/old world order of Trumpian policy, your arts organization faces the real possibility that, in the face of anti-arts, anti-education, and anti-truth political muckraking euphemistically calling itself “populism,” it will be shut down. The most intelligent thing your nonprofit … [Read more...] about Nonprofit Arts Success in a Changing Environment, Tip 6 — Don’t Talk About It; Do It.

Why Does Transforming a Country of DōnWänüs Take Just as Much Effort Than Transforming a Nonprofit Arts Industry of DōnWänüs?

November 5, 2024 by Alan Harrison Leave a Comment

Is charitable resistance just another instance of the Peter Principle at play at your nonprofit arts organization? It’s election day in the United States. November 5. If you’re not reading this on November 5, then it is not election day in the United States, but it’s likely there is still no real result as yet. Although…who knows? Maybe the country’s citizens either became … [Read more...] about Why Does Transforming a Country of DōnWänüs Take Just as Much Effort Than Transforming a Nonprofit Arts Industry of DōnWänüs?

Special Commentary: Of All the Times I’ve Wanted to be Wrong…

November 1, 2024 by Alan Harrison Leave a Comment

Remember that war we talked about in February and March? In two days, there's a time change. After two more, a consequential and particularly ugly US election. And yet, here we are again, talking about war. Only this time, it's not just me. On February 27 and March 5 of this year, we published two consecutive articles about the inevitable war that will start within the … [Read more...] about Special Commentary: Of All the Times I’ve Wanted to be Wrong…

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In early 2024, we 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, we gave you discussion prompts and rules to help you figure out the answers on your own. The result: … [MORE] about About Scene Change

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 … [MORE] about About Alan Harrison

Recent Posts

  • “SCENE CHANGE 3” Just Named to Kirkus Reviews’ “25 Best Indies of 2025!”
  • Born in the DSA*: Little Donny Dingdong Be Damned**, Let Everybody Vote
  • Dear “The Ground We Stand On,” — A Letter to BIPOC Artists
  • When Doctors Prescribe the Arts as Treatment, Nonprofit Arts Organizations (At Long Last) Prove Their Worth
  • The 2025, Final, Never-To-Be-Repeated, Carol for Nonprofit Arts Organizations

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