"The Revolution Will Not Be Funded gives us valuable insight into what these activists call 'the non-profit industrial complex,' an unseen web of money and power that tries to undermine people's struggles for racial, class, economic, gender, and environmental justice. It deserves the closest study." -- Mumia Abu-Jamal

"This collection presents a context for the questions that have been troubling us about non-profit structures. In years to come, we will mark it as the jump-start for our new thinking about ways to make collective social change." -- Suzanne Pharr, author of In the Time of the Right: Reflections on Liberation

"A stinging indictment of what the authors call the 'non-profit industrial complex.'" -- Elisabeth Prugl Signs

"The Revolution Will Not Be Funded is a must-read for all of us who are living in the U.S., the crossroads of empire and global capitalism. Seriously addressing the questions and critiques raised by this collection will help today's U.S.-based justice movements make sense of our responsibilities-and envision creative opportunities-to help map a transformative future for liberation." -- Joo-Hyu Kang, member, CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities

"Fiery" --Utne Reader

"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

"Are non-profit organizations sufficiently accountable and responsive to the larger aims of popular social movements, or is the 'non-profit industrial complex' thawing the potential for fundamental social change? The Revolution Will Not Be Funded provides a variety of critical perspectives that challenge the conventional foundation model and non-profit system approach to popular organizing in capitalist America. Sure to be a provocative book for activists working for social justice." -- Daniel Faber, editor of Foundations for Social Change

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.

Preface / Andrea Smith ix Foreword / Soniya Munshi and Craig Willse xiii Introduction: The Revolution Will Not Be Funded 1 Part I: The Rise of the Non-Profit Industrial Complex The Political Logic of the Non-Profit Industrial Complex / Dylan Rodriguez 21 In the Shadow of the State / Ruth Wilson Gilmore 41 From Black Awakening in Capitalist America / Robert L. Allen 53 Democratizing American Philanthropy / Christine E. Ahn 63 Part II: Non-Profits and Global Organizing The Filth on Philanthropy: Progressive Philanthropy's Agenda to Misdirect Social Justice Movements / Tiffany Lethabo King and Ewuare Osayande 79 Between Radical Theory and Community Praxis: Reflections on Organizing and the Non-Profit Industrial Complex / Amara H. Perez, Sisters in Action for Power 91 Native Organizing Before the Non-Profit Industrial Complex / Madonna Thunder Hawk 101 Fundraising is Not a Dirty Word: Community-based Economic Strategies for the Long Haul / Stephanie Guilloud and William Cordery, Project South: Institute for the Elimination of Poverty and Genocide "we were never meant to survive": Fighting Violence Against Women and the Fourth World War / Ana Clarissa Rojas Durazo 113 Social Service or Social Change? / Paul Kivel 129 Pursuing a Radical Anti-Violence Agenda Inside/Outside a Non-Profit Structure / Alisa Bierria, Communities Against Rape and Abuse (CARA) 151 The NGOization of the Palestine Liberation Movement: Interviews with Hatem Bazian, Noura Erekat, Atef Said, and Zeina Zaatari / Andrea Smith 165 Part III: Rethinking Non-Profits, Reimagining Resistance Radical Social Change: Searching for a New Foundation / Adjoa Florencia Joes de Almeida 185 Are the Cops in Our Heads and Hearts? / Paula X. Rojas 197 Non-Profits and the Autonomous Grassroots / Eric Tang 215 On Our Own Terms: Ten Years of Radical Community Building with Sista II Sista / Nicole Burrowes, Morgan Cousins, Paula X. Rojas, and Ije Ude 227 About the Contributors 235 Index 242