Macho, Thanks to your post, I bought this book and will read it. Creating a sustainable, healthy model for an organization like ours is always in discussion, since we have been trying to rebuild our organization for the past few years. I haven't read the book yet but, I'd love to have a discussion about the book and the topics brought up any time though. Here is a link I found to a review of the book at Yes! http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/climate-solutions/in-review-the-revolution...
John Sibley Bike Depot St. Paul, MN
----- Original Message ----- From: "Macho Philipovich" macho@resist.ca To: "The Think Tank" thethinktank@bikecollectives.org Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 1:18:07 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central Subject: [TheThinkTank] Non-Profit Industrial Complex
Hi everyone,
It looks like I'm not going to make it to Bike!Bike! this year, but there was a discussion I was really wanting to initiate. It mostly comes out of lived experience, but is well-articulated by Incite! Women of Color Against Violence in a recent book they wrote called "The Revolution will not be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex"
I would love for people, especially those in shops with an anti-capitalist/non-hierarchichal/anti-oppressive bent to them to have a look at that book and then to have discussion around some of the points raised, specifically of limitations in 501(c)3, state funding, and foundation funding models. If people have had a chance to look at the book and would like to discuss it here, that would be great, but even better would be if there were someone willing to lead a discussion next month in Minneapolis.
Macho http://bike-dump.ca
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