Rejecting the Poverty Mentality
While I don’t currently work in the non-profit realm, I spent many years working at theaters that were, almost invariably, non-profits. The anthropology of theaters is worth another post (or really, a book), but suffice it to say that pretty much all the theaters I’ve ever worked at started based on the zeal and passion of a handful of people. They were artistic start-ups, if you will. Time and again, I saw theaters that hit…