Fundraising Bright Spots: Strategies and Inspiration from Social Change Organizations Raising Money from Individual Donors

"Let's find an outside expert who can help." It's a natural impulse in the search for answers to the chronic fundraising challenges facing so many nonprofit organizations. But what if the real answers were already all around us? And what can we learn from those nonprofits that are uniquely successful in their fundraising? These are the questions behind a new report by Klein & Roth Consulting and CompassPoint. Commissioned by the Haas, Jr. Fund, the report explores common strategies, practices and mindsets across a group of social change organizations that are beating the odds to achieve breakthrough success in individual giving. Among the key insights from the report: Fundraising is core to the identity of these organizations. It's an integral and connected part of their overall work, and it's something everyone has a role in -- including all staff, board and volunteers. When we first started this research, we suspected we would begin to identify some common skills and innovative techniques that lead to success in fundraising. But what the research shows instead is that there are deeper issues involved. It's less about tools and techniques and the skills of an organization's leaders, and more about developing the culture and the systems that are the foundation of long-term fundraising success

Without Distinction of Age: The Pivotal Roles of Child Actors and Their Spectators in Nineteenth-Century Theatre

This is the publisher's version, also available electronically from http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/lion_and_the_unicorn/v036/36.2.klein.htm

From Children's Perspectives: A Model of Aesthetic Processing in Theatre

A model of aesthetic processing describes how child audiences create meanings of plays in performances

Routing the Roots and Growth of the Dramatic Instinct

This is an unpublished manuscript. Please ask Jeanne Klein for permission to quote or cite.The idea of a “dramatic instinct” is routed from its nineteenth-century roots in early childhood education and child study psychology through early twentieth-century theatre education. This historically contextualized routing suggests the functional purposes of pretense for human freedom, self-preservation, and survival. Theatre scholars may influence the discipline of cognitive psychology by employing these philosophical and epistemological theories to unpack the role of empathy in aesthetic experiences with today’s spectators

Making Metaphors Matter

I presented this unpublished paper at the first forum of the International Theatre for Young Audiences Research Network in Adelaide, Australia in 2008.Theatre for Young Audiences relies on conceptual metaphors to reflect conflicts and resolutions in young lives. I offer some examples from my reception studies to show how children interpret verbal, visual, kinesthetic, and conceptual or thematic metaphors contained in expressionistic, surrealistic, and absurdist plays in performance. This evidence suggests just how far theatre artists may stretch children’s metaphoric capabilities despite their preferences for realism

Using Theatre to Heal Culture Wars in the United States

I presented this unpublished paper at an international symposium held in Okinawa City, Japan, in July 2007.After explaining the socio-economic conditions of children in the United States, I explain how a performed play, Lily Plants a Garden by Jose Cruz Gonzalez, may help heal culture wars.Kijimuna Festival, Okinawa City, Japa

Paying Attention to Separations: Reflections on ASSITEJ/USA History

An unpublished paper written in 2004.A reflective analysis of ASSITEJ/USA history reveals recurring themes of attention, identity, and problematic separations between practices and theories based on age constructs