Wednesdays August 27-Sept 24 | 7:00-8:15pm EST/4:00-5:15pm PST
Facilitated by Zara Cadoux

How do nonprofits operate as counter-insurgent forces to quell revolutionary work? How is the nonprofit industrial complex used to co-opt language and concepts, redirect grassroots energy to avenues that can be controlled, and keep the world safe for capitalism?  This five session series supports participants to develop their analysis through a mixture of readings, discussion, and teach-ins. Using case studies of the co-optation of Black Power movements, queer movements, and survivor-centered movements against domestic violence, participants will learn to distinguish between the concepts of movement capture, nonprofitization, and incorporation into the carceral state. Finally, the series concludes with a discussion on what an abolitionist praxis of the nonprofit industrial complex can look like. 

Pre-work for each session will be 15-20 pages of reading, including work by Robert L. Allen, Beth Ritchie, Dylan Rodriguez, Myrl Beam, Megan Ming Francis, and more.

Familiarity with the concept of the nonprofit industrial complex is recommended. For those who haven’t read it yet, the Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Nonprofit Industrial Complex by INCITE! is a foundational text.

COST:

We offer our workshops on a Sliding Scale. Scholarships start at $25 and there are also no cost spaces reserved and payment plans available (please email zara@both-and.org). The true cost of this workshop series is $150 with sliding scale for both financial needs and financial privileges.

If your organization offers development funding to support you to attend the course, select either the Full Rate or Redistribution Rate, based on the amount of funds made available to you plus the cost that you are able to personally contribute or where you fit on the sliding scale guide linked above. Solidarity Rates are reserved for individuals paying out of pocket who meet the criteria outlined in our Sliding Scale Guide.