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Liberating social justice from nonprofits: a review of The Revolution Will Not Be Funded

The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex caught my eye from the moment I saw it. I’ll admit that I was nervous to see what the essays edited by INCITE! Women of Color would say about the industry I had chosen. What I found were incredibly validating tales and analysis of the nonprofit industrial complex (NPIC). Was nonprofit work really a means of achieving liberation? Or does it just keep activists too busy to notice their own exploitation and deradicalization?

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