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 Rodríguez 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. Pérez, 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 Florência 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