A review by arilaurel
The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex by Incite! Women of Color Against Violence

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.