The revolution will not be funded
Subtitle: beyond the non-profit industrial complex
By: edited by INCITE!
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 257
ISBN-13: 9780822363804; 9780822369004
Subjects: Poverty; Distributive justice; Non-governmental organizations; Women's rights; Social justice; Social change; Social movements
Description: A trillion-dollar industry, the US non-profit sector is one of the world's largest economies. From art museums and university hospitals to think tanks and church charities, over 1.5 million organizations of staggering diversity share the tax-exempt 501(c)(3) designation, if little else. Many social justice organizations have joined this world, often blunting political goals to satisfy government and foundation mandates. But even as funding shrinks, many activists often find it difficult to imagine movement-building outside the non-profit model. The Revolution Will Not Be Funded gathers essays by radical activists, educators, and non-profit staff from around the globe who critically rethink the long-term consequences of what they call the "non-profit industrial complex." Drawing on their own experiences, the contributors track the history of non-profits and provide strategies to transform and work outside them. Urgent and visionary, The Revolution Will Not Be Funded presents a biting critique of the quietly devastating role the non-profit industrial complex plays in managing dissent. -- from back cover.
Notes: "Originally published by South End Press, Cambridge, MA, 2007; republished by Duke University Press, 2017."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The political log of the non-profit industrial complex / Dylan Rodríguez; title: In the shadow of the shadow state / Ruth Wilson Gilmore; title: From Black awakening in capitalist America / Robert L. Allen; title: Deomocratizing American philanthropy / Christine E. Ahn; title: The filth on philanthropy : progressive philanthropy's agenda to misdirect social justice movements / Tiffany Lethabo King and Equare Osayande; title: Between radical theory and community praxis : reflections on organizing and the non-profit industrial complex / Amara H. Pérez, Sisters in Action for Power; title: Native organizing before the non-profit industrial complex / Madonna Thunder Hawk; title: Fundraising is not a dirty word : community-based economic strategies for the long haul / Stephanie Guilloud and William Cordery, Project South: Institute for the Elimination of Poverty and Genocide; title: "We were never meant to survive" : fighting violence against women and the fourth world war / Ana Clarissa Rojas Durazo; title: Social service or social change? / Paul Kivel; title: Pursuing a radical anti-violence agenda inside/outside a non-profit structure / Alisa Bierria, Communities Against Rape and Abuse (CARA); title: The NGOization of the Palestine Liberation Movement : interview with Hatem Bazian, Noura Erekat, Atef Said, and Zeina Zaatari / Andrea Smith; title: Radical social change : searching for a new foundation / Adjoa Florência Jones de Almeida; title: Are the cops in our heads and hearts? / Paula X. Rojas; title: Non-profits and the autonomous grassroots / Eric Tang; title: On our own terms : ten years of radical community building with Sista II Sista / Nicole Burrowes, Morgan Cousins, Paula X. Rojas, and Ije Ude.