Episode 48: The Revolution Will Not Be Funded
Book: The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex by INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence
Guest: Joy Messinger
Hosts: Monica Trinidad & Page May
Release Date: February 19, 2019
Length: 51:00
INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence hands us a sharp critique of the toxic role that the non-profit industrial complex can play in managing our movements.
Joy Messinger, a queer disabled femme organizer and Program Officer at Third Wave Fund, joins us in this episode to discuss this book of essays featuring writing from Andrea Smith, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, and more.
Key Questions:
Joy Messinger, a queer disabled femme organizer and Program Officer at Third Wave Fund, joins us in this episode to discuss this book of essays featuring writing from Andrea Smith, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, and more.
Key Questions:
- What is the non-profit industrial complex (NPIC)?
- How does nonprofit status and grants impact the work of community organizations?
- How did we get here?
- What are examples of fundraising strategies that resist the NPIC?
- How can we build movements outside the non-profit model?