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-will-not-be-funded

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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