Rukshana's review
The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex by INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence
Rukshana's review
rating:
recommended for: activists, organizers, academics, non profit workers, social service providers
status: Read in April, 2008
rating:
recommended for: activists, organizers, academics, non profit workers, social service providers
status: Read in April, 2008
I've read almost all of the entries in this anthology so I am declaring it read! I would like to revisit this book again to finish the unread pieces.
This book is excellent. A definite must read for anyone who works in or supports the nonprofit industrial complex, and especially those who see nonprofits as a solution to the destruction caused by global capitalism (a viewpoint that the book dismantles!).
The book includes a real diversity of voices on this topic and examines it from different angles - a historical analysis of how the NPIC emerged, a more theoretical perspective on the political economy of the NPIC, examples of work within and outside of the NPIC, strategies for moving forward, etc.
One of my favorite pieces is "we were never meant to survive": Fighting Violence Against Women and the Fourth World War" by Ana Clarissa Rojas Durazo. What would the world look like if issues currently addressed by social services funded and delimited by the...more
This book is excellent. A definite must read for anyone who works in or supports the nonprofit industrial complex, and especially those who see nonprofits as a solution to the destruction caused by global capitalism (a viewpoint that the book dismantles!).
The book includes a real diversity of voices on this topic and examines it from different angles - a historical analysis of how the NPIC emerged, a more theoretical perspective on the political economy of the NPIC, examples of work within and outside of the NPIC, strategies for moving forward, etc.
One of my favorite pieces is "we were never meant to survive": Fighting Violence Against Women and the Fourth World War" by Ana Clarissa Rojas Durazo. What would the world look like if issues currently addressed by social services funded and delimited by the...more
R- I have YO's copy of this. Should I pass it on to you? (After we let him know, of course.) :) ~H
I have my own copy. Thanks tho. Whaddya think of the book?
I didn't read it- Olivia gave it to me to return to him before she left- oops! Why are you up so late? And I can't wait to see you on Wednesday! It's been too long! Looking forward to hearing all about Argentina.
