# The Revolution Will Not Be Funded

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/books/the-revolution-will-not-be-funded/
- Published: 2021-06-08T16:19:47+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**Beyond 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 organisations of huge diversity share the tax-exempt 501(c)(3) 
designation, if little else.

Many social justice organisations 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.

_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, and Craig Willse.