{"id":757,"date":"2024-02-13T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/scenechange\/?p=757"},"modified":"2024-02-11T23:25:08","modified_gmt":"2024-02-11T23:25:08","slug":"nonprofit-arts-organizations-you-missed-the-point-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/scenechange\/2024\/02\/13\/nonprofit-arts-organizations-you-missed-the-point-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Nonprofit Arts Organizations: You Missed the Point. Again."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\"><strong>Yes, you&#8217;re a nonprofit. Big deal. Like tennis, if you don&#8217;t serve well, it&#8217;s your fault.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/501c3.guru\/contact\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/scenechange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Tennis-ball-into-the-net.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-759\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/scenechange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Tennis-ball-into-the-net.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/scenechange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Tennis-ball-into-the-net.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/scenechange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Tennis-ball-into-the-net.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/scenechange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Tennis-ball-into-the-net.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">All puns intended.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/isbnsearch.org\/isbn\/9781803414461\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The book has been released into the wild.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My new book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.collectiveinkbooks.com\/changemakers-books\/our-books\/scene-change-nonprofit-organizations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong><em>Scene Change: Why Today\u2019s Nonprofit Arts Organizations Have to Stop Producing Art and Start Producing Impact<\/em><\/strong><\/a> is now on the shelves, be they internet shelves or real ones, in the UK and the US. If your bookstore isn\u2019t carrying it (yet), please let them know that you want a copy and that they should stock up for the thousands more behind you. Okay, hundreds. Okay, dozens. Just give them this ISBN: <strong><a href=\"mailto:978-1-80%20341-446-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">978-1-80 341-446-1<\/a><\/strong>. If it\u2019s still not listed, contact me directly at <a href=\"mailto:alan@501c3.guru\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">alan@501c3.guru<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you teach an arts management program, work at an arts school, or want to buy a bulk purchase (25 or more) for your board of directors and staff, contact me directly at <a href=\"mailto:alan@501c3.guru\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">alan@501c3.guru<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And if you&#8217;d like an autographed copy, just send me an email to the same address. <a href=\"https:\/\/stores.barnesandnoble.com\/event\/9780062165205-0\">Or, if you&#8217;re in the Seattle region, come to the Barnes &amp; Noble in Totem Lake Village on Saturday, February 24 at 1:00pm! Stop by and say hello.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In case you missed it, I was interviewed recently for a \u201cBetween the Pages\u201d segment on The Sound on Stage. Here it is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Between the Pages - Alan Harrison\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wIqYv9BY4ng?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\"><strong>And now&#8230;this week&#8217;s column.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Congratulations. You\u2019re a nonprofit arts organization. How did you become an arts organization without actually fulfilling the criteria in IRS Code 501(C)(3)?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It doesn\u2019t matter. You\u2019ve done it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am always stupefied when I see people, especially those of whom I have some regard, intentionally misunderstand why nonprofit arts organizations are continuing to go belly-up. They believe that the idea that they need to be more charitable in the community \u2013 to measure their impact in tangible ways \u2013 is a nuisance. After all, they\u2019ve never done it before \u2013 instead, resting on the idea that the production of art is a community asset.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Your production of art is no more a community asset than the art performed by buskers on the corner. In fact, you\u2019re in the same business as they are, only they\u2019re a little more efficient (if not as wealthy).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/501c3.guru\/scene-change\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"990\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/scenechange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/pexels-simon-ly-6119999.jpg?resize=990%2C1024&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-760\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/scenechange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/pexels-simon-ly-6119999.jpg?resize=990%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 990w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/scenechange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/pexels-simon-ly-6119999.jpg?resize=290%2C300&amp;ssl=1 290w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/scenechange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/pexels-simon-ly-6119999.jpg?resize=768%2C795&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/scenechange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/pexels-simon-ly-6119999.jpg?w=1148&amp;ssl=1 1148w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 990px) 100vw, 990px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">These guys do exactly what you do; public performances for money. The only difference is what? (Photo by Simon Ly on Pexels)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve read paragraph upon paragraph of defense of the current system. Declarations that \u201cthe arts are essential\u201d without data to prove it. No data, no proof. No proof, no truth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can\u2019t prove worth on a feeling. Or on \u201cnourishing the soul.\u201d The public knows that and still, these organizations persist in pouring gallons of water into a sinking ship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I receive tons of comments from those that believe that the power of the arts supersedes the impact of the nonprofit status of arts organizations. I can\u2019t help that they\u2019re misguided, don\u2019t see the forest for the trees, are brainwashed, or just wrong. Here\u2019s one from December:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cThere are many organizations, including several criticized by name by Harrison, that had community-facing efforts to solve practical social problems, educational and otherwise, and were nevertheless forced to close in recent years. While Harrison exhorts nonprofit arts leaders to pivot into social justice work or be ruined, the fiscal environment seems to be worsening for everyone. It\u2019s not clear that anyone will be protected by such pivots, and it\u2019s not demonstrated that donors will reward them. The organizations may in fact waste resources they need to survive by investing them in social projects for which the organizations are neither qualified, nor equipped to measure impact.\u201d \u2013 Franklin<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>You\u2019re right, Franklin. Some of the recently-shuttered companies <em>did have<\/em> community-facing efforts, educational and otherwise. It wasn\u2019t their mission, of course. It didn\u2019t speak to the core of their purpose. In some cases, I daresay that the point of the educational programs you reference was to make them more financially attractive to foundations and other donors. And while they may have measured attendance (which is a metric of popularity, not impact) with little to no follow-up on the actual education, these programs were clearly just appendages to an arts-first point of view. They were not the point. In fact, these organizations, as the photo at the top of this article insinuates, missed the point entirely. And even in your own words, \u201cthe fiscal environment seems to be worsening for everyone,\u201d but you clearly don\u2019t accept that current practices have contributed to the continuing loss of revenues for nonprofit arts organizations. They did, they do, and they are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But perhaps the most pernicious and revealing statement about the kinds of arts organizations that refuse to show their indispensability while crying out for more funding is revealed in the latter part of the paragraph. Franklin, the idea that you view resources spent on social projects to be \u201cwasted\u201d due to the idea that arts organizations are \u201cneither qualified, nor equipped to measure impact\u201d speaks more about the faulty nonprofit arts organization, not society or the idea that charities are meant to be charitable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/501c3.guru\/contact\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"554\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/scenechange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Waste.jpg?resize=1024%2C554&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-761\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/scenechange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Waste.jpg?resize=1024%2C554&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/scenechange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Waste.jpg?resize=300%2C162&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/scenechange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Waste.jpg?resize=768%2C415&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/scenechange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Waste.jpg?resize=1536%2C831&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/scenechange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Waste.jpg?resize=2048%2C1108&amp;ssl=1 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I know, I know. That\u2019s not what you wrote or meant. You just think that it\u2019s a waste for nonprofit arts organizations to concentrate on these things, along with DEI issues, because they\u2019re not good at it, unqualified to take part, or because others do it better. And you\u2019re not wrong, at least the back half of that \u2013 they\u2019re <em>not <\/em>good at it, they <em>are <\/em>unqualified to take part, and others <em>do <\/em>do it better. You\u2019ve also described why they\u2019re not getting funding, except through extraordinary measures like sales tax raises on everyone \u2013 rich or poor \u2013 in King County, Washington. Or a year of higher city, county, state, or federal government subsidies in advance of a 2024 election cycle \u2013 the equivalent of the old \u201cfree turkey on election day\u201d grift.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bluntly speaking (and I am often blunt), you missed the whole point. But you are not the only one, just one with the courage to write. And for that, I am thankful. You speak for a lot of misguided folks in the current rut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bankruptcies will continue to happen to nonprofit arts organizations unless something changes quickly. That something is tied to indispensability within the community. We can no longer present the arts as a luxury item to be funded by and presented for the elites in our communities. That attitude and practice has nullified most of the good that arts organizations have the ability to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the industry won\u2019t thrive (not just \u201ccome back\u201d \u2026 <em>thrive) <\/em>until their production of art is the means toward a charitable end, not the end result itself. Arts organizations are not evil or elitist on purpose; it\u2019s that they currently have no intention of helping their community except through the simple production of art they want to produce. Just like those guys playing a string trio on the corner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No other charity works that way, and thank goodness they don\u2019t. When you ask artistic leaders of nonprofit arts organizations about who they serve, they often say, \u201cwe serve the art.\u201d When you ask almost every other charity in America about who they serve, they\u2019ll say some version of \u201cwe serve people.\u201d Granted, some say, \u201cwe serve the animals.\u201d Heritage organizations save a building to teach legacy or the ideals of the people for whom that building was key. But until nonprofit arts organizations stop ignoring the positive impact of their own community, they\u2019ll continue to be irrelevant to anyone except that night\u2019s audience. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But yes, an arts organization is allowed to be a nonprofit corporation. So is the National Rifle Association.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ko-fi.com\/alanharrison\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/scenechange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/buy-me-a-coffee-for-bottom-of-articles.jpg?ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-60\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, you&#8217;re a nonprofit. Big deal. 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It's easy to make the case for art. For artists. For charity. 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