
The Revolution Will not Be Funded
beyond the non-profit industrial complex
$48.27
- Paperback
277 pages
- Release Date
2 February 2017
Summary
Unfunding the Movement: A Critical Look at the Non-Profit Industrial Complex
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©(3) designation, if little else. Many social justice organizations have joined this world, often blunting political goals to satisfy government and foundatio…
Book Details
ISBN-13: | 9780822369004 |
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ISBN-10: | 0822369001 |
Author: | INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence |
Publisher: | Duke University Press |
Imprint: | Duke University Press |
Format: | Paperback |
Number of Pages: | 277 |
Release Date: | 2 February 2017 |
Weight: | 420g |
Dimensions: | 22mm x 446mm x 164mm |
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Critics Review
“A stinging indictment of what the authors call the ‘non-profit industrial complex.’” - Elisabeth Prügl (Signs) “Fiery” (Utne Reader) “A crucial intervention into mainstream ways of thinking about political organization and social change.” - Ryne Clos (Spectrum Culture) “Powerfully demonstrate[s] what we too often forget: our attempts at securing safety for ourselves and our communities are subject to much more powerful attempts by the state and society to make itself safe-including to make itself safe from us and our most radical, challenging, revolutionary, feminist ideas.” - Ruthann Robson (Women’s Studies Quarterly) “Although The Revolution Will Not Be Funded presents no easy answers for those of us struggling both to make a living and to create social change, it exhorts us to put the consideration of our movements’ missions, and the way we fulfill them, before considerations of organizational and job security-and to regularly revisit within our organizations the question of whether the form and the content of our work are essentially compatible.” - Christy Thornton (NACLA Report on the Americas)
About The Author
INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence
INCITE! is a national activist organization of radical feminists of color advancing a movement to end all forms of violence against women, gender non-conforming, and trans people of color through direct action, critical dialogue, and grassroots organizing.
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