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