The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the NonProfit Industrial Complex

A trilliondollar industry, the US nonprofit sector is one of the worlds largest economies. From art museums and university hospitals to think tanks and church charities, over 1.5 million organizations of staggering diversity share the taxexempt 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 movementbuilding outside the nonprofit model. The Revolution Will Not Be Funded gathers essays by radical activists, educators, and nonprofit staff from around the globe who critically rethink the longterm consequences of what they call the nonprofit industrial complex. Drawing on their own experiences, the contributors track the history of nonprofits 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 nonprofit 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 Florncia Jones de Almeida, Tiffany Lethabo King, Paul Kivel, Soniya Munshi, Ewuare Osayande, Amara H. Prez, Project South: Institute for the Elimination of Poverty and Genocide, Dylan Rodrguez, Paula X. Rojas, Ana Clarissa Rojas Durazo, Sisters in Action for Power, Andrea Smith, Eric Tang, Madonna Thunder Hawk, Ije Ude, Craig Willse