haileymack's review against another edition
5.0
Huuuuge fan of this. I don’t really rate nonfiction, the stars in this case go towards how informative it was, which it very much so was. They broke down the non-profit industrial complex very well, and included a lot of essays on what you actually can do, i feel like a lot of nonfiction can be very daunting because its a lot of “this is everything thats wrong, good luck!” But they didn’t always do that, big fan of that lol. Everyone should read this at some point in their lives!
srfrq's review against another edition
5.0
a great addition to my constantly changing vision for a revolution! i've been questioning being a part of the npic, like how my job is to write policies and grants and how much that takes away from actually supporting people in the community. and then also how other ngos and structures are so inefficient and bureaucratic and how incredibly frustrating it is to work within systems with the intention of dismantling them (master's tools can't dismantle master's house). honestly, i think this just makes it really clear for me: the revolution begins at home. and i hate that i've internalized capitalism in such a way that it is integrated into everything i do and think about : /
anyway, this book is really good and you should definitely read it before/during working for a non-profit (or using it as a front for more radical grassroots organizing).
anyway, this book is really good and you should definitely read it before/during working for a non-profit (or using it as a front for more radical grassroots organizing).
stargirlx14's review against another edition
4.0
Cheesy description but this book truly blew my mind and dropped my jaw. This should be required reading.
arilaurel's review against another edition
5.0
As a person who has racked up years of professional experience in the nonprofit/NGO world, this book is essential reading for anyone with a critical eye in this field. A lot of what the essays discuss are issues that nonprofit workers experience on one level or another (the constant scarcity, the need for self-preservation above all else, the conflicts around grant and government rules, the professionalization of mutual aid and community building), but may have not had the opportunity to lay it all out on the table. It's important to not see a nonprofit as a definitive answer to a social problem, because constraints will always be engineered to hamstring us, often having a negative effect on the communities we want to lift up.
toobizzyreading's review against another edition
Just didn’t finish reading for school!
haygurlhay's review against another edition
4.0
The Revolution Will Not Be Funded should be standard read for anyone in the nonprofit sector.
having worked in the arts non-profit world for over a decade, this is a fantastic read for folks looking to understand the Nonprofit Industrial Complex (NPIC), how capitalism and non-profit work is a strange symbiotic dance, and powerful essays on the ways we must hold each other and the nonprofit work organized is accountable to the communities we're working within.
this book could be a little heady at times, but it's worth the slow read and revisiting over and over.
having worked in the arts non-profit world for over a decade, this is a fantastic read for folks looking to understand the Nonprofit Industrial Complex (NPIC), how capitalism and non-profit work is a strange symbiotic dance, and powerful essays on the ways we must hold each other and the nonprofit work organized is accountable to the communities we're working within.
this book could be a little heady at times, but it's worth the slow read and revisiting over and over.