Are you interested in re-examining your conventional knowledge and assumptions of colonialism and the NPIC? Come deepen your anti-colonial analysis of the NPIC with a 3-part reading series where we will dive into the history and violence of foreign aid, identify colonial legacies in international development and nonprofits, and interrogate the practice of international development. Over the course of 3 weeks, we will use readings from Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Dambisa Moyo, Walter Rodney, Arundhati Roy, Angela Davis, Michael Parenti, INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence, and more. Each session will include a short recap or lecture from the facilitator to frame the content.

Facilitated by Kareen Coyoca (They/Them).

Did you know that the Non-profit Industrial Complex (NPIC) is global and reaches far beyond the U.S. and into the Global South? The NPIC dictates underdevelopment for poverty stricken and oppressed nations and communities and has strong ties to race and capitalism. If you work in a non-profit, foundation, and or the international development sector, this primer is for you. Join Both/And in analyzing the NPIC from an anti-colonial lens. We will explore the basis for NPIC’s global role and examine how it upholds structures of colonialism and imperialism that are still active today through mechanisms such as foreign aid, the IMF, World Bank, and USAID.

*Although not necessary, we do recommend that you have taken our primer “What is the Non-Profit Industrial Complex?”

Facilitated by Kareen Coyoca (They/Them).

If you are looking to explore what the non-profit industrial complex (NPIC) is, how it is used to maintain wealth and power, and how it suppresses and co-opts radical movements, this is the reading group for you! Over the course of 3 weeks, we will use readings from Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Joy James, Paul Kivel, Dean Spade, INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence, Sidra Morgan-Montoya and more to explore the structural elements of the NPIC. Each session will include a short recap or lecture from the facilitator to frame the content.
This reading group is a primer for other topics that will be explored throughout the year, including a global analysis of the NPIC, labor within the NPIC, and what an abolitionist praxis of the NPIC can look like.

Facilitated by Zara Cadoux (She/Her).

Join us for a primer on what the non-profit industrial complex (NPIC) is, how it functions, and how the elite use it to maintain wealth and power. This teach-in will explore the history of philanthropy, pose questions about how we came to see nonprofits as inherently good and social change as a job, and interrogate how capitalist power structures are maintained through the nonprofit sector. The session will conclude by introducing how the NPIC co-opts and suppresses radical movements. Facilitated by Zara Cadoux (She/Her).