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.
Contributors. Christine E. Ahn, Robert L. Allen, Alisa Bierria, Nicole Burrowes, Communities Against Rape and Abuse (CARA), William Cordery, Morgan Cousins, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Stephanie Guilloud, Adjoa Florência Jones de Almeida, Tiffany Lethabo King, Paul Kivel, Soniya Munshi, Ewuare Osayande, Amara H. Pérez, Project South: Institute for the Elimination of Poverty and Genocide, Dylan Rodríguez, Paula X. Rojas, Ana Clarissa Rojas Durazo, Sisters in Action for Power, Andrea Smith, Eric Tang, Madonna Thunder Hawk, Ije Ude, Craig Willse
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- Foreword
- Introduction: The Revolution Will Not Be Funded
- Part I: The Rise of the Non-Profit Industrial Complex
- The Political Logic of the Non-Profit Industrial Complex
- In the Shadow of the Shadow State
- From Black Awakening in Capitalist America
- Democratizing American Philanthropy
- Part II: Non-Profits and Global Organizing
- The Filth on Philanthropy: Progressive Philanthropy’s Agenda to Misdirect Social Justice Movements
- Between Radical Theory and Community Praxis: Reflections on Organizing and the Non-Profit Industrial Complex
- Native Organizing Before the Non-Profit Industrial Complex
- Fundraising Is Not a Dirty Word: Community-Based Economic Strategies for the Long Haul
- “we were never meant to survive”: Fighting Violence Against Women and the Fourth World War
- Social Service or Social Change
- Pursuing a Radical Anti-Violence Agenda Inside/Outside a Non-Profit Structure
- The NGOization of the Palestine Liberation Movement: Interviews with Hatem Bazian, Noura Erekat, Atef Said, and Zeina Zaatari
- Part III: Rethinking Non-Profits, Reimagining Resistance
- Radical Social Change: Searching for a New Foundation
- Are the Cops in Our Heads and Hearts
- Non-Profits and the Autonomous Grassroots
- On Our Own Terms: Ten Years of Radical Community Building With Sista II Sista
- About the Contributors
- Index
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