The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex

By: Incite! Women of Color Against Violence

Published March 1st 2009 by South End Press (first published March 1st 2007)

Category: Biography

Pages: 257 pages

ISBN: 9780896087668

Description:
A $1.3 trillion industry, the US nonprofit sector is the worldÕs seventh largest economy. 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 and government surveillance rises, many activists often find it difficult to imagine movement-building outside the nonprofit model.
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The Revolution Will Not Be Funded gathers original essays by radical activists from around the globe who are critically rethinking the long-term consequences of this investment. Together with educators and nonprofit staff they finally name the Ònonprofit industrial complexÓ and ask hard questions: How did politics shape the birth of the nonprofit model? How does 501(c)(3) status allow the state to co-opt political movements? Activists--or careerists? How do we fund the movement outside this complex? Urgent and visionary, The Revolution Will Not Be Funded is an unbeholden exposŽ of the Ònonprofit industrial complexÓ and its quietly devastating role in managing dissent.