{"id":1683,"date":"2025-12-30T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/scenechange\/?p=1683"},"modified":"2025-12-30T05:05:59","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T05:05:59","slug":"scene-change-3-just-named-to-kirkus-reviews-25-best-indies-of-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/scenechange\/2025\/12\/30\/scene-change-3-just-named-to-kirkus-reviews-25-best-indies-of-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"“SCENE CHANGE 3” Just Named to Kirkus Reviews’ “25 Best Indies of 2025!”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If you’re serious about succeeding as a nonprofit arts organization, you’re going to want to pick up the trilogy by going to scenechangebook.com<\/a> or your favorite bookstore.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Happy new year, folks. I just wanted you to know that the final book in the Scene Change <\/em>trilogy has been getting fantastic reviews and offers success stories in the midst of this calamitous financial chaos that we call the nonprofit arts sector. Kirkus Reviews just named it to their list of Best Indies of 2025. Here’s a short quote:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“The author 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\u2019s analysis of the root of nonprofit problems \u2014 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’) \u2014 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).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A punchy, outspoken argument for how nonprofit arts organizations should be run.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Pick up the trilogy. It’s a bargain. You’ll get about $100,000 worth of valuable consulting work and pay only about fifty bucks for it. Simple as that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And if you want to buy in bulk (25 or more) for your board or your staff, there’s a massive discount at bulkbookstore.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you’re into Amazon, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you’re into Barnes & Noble, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you’re into independent bookstores (and want to save a few bucks, too), click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Otherwise, click here<\/a> and read some of the reviews.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Happy New Year (my regular column will return on January 6)!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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