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Funding America’s Nonprofits: The Nonprofit Industrial Complex’s Hold on Social Justice




I found this article to be so interesting and useful when it comes to learning more about the negative impacts that can occur at agencies. This article provided some background to the aspect of  how nonprofits tie into social justice issues. The Nonprofit Industrial Complex (NPIC), is a system that forces nonprofits to professionalize, having them focus on maintaining their funding sources rather than fulfilling their mission! Nonprofits are fundamentally different from corporations in
two major ways; their funds are donated, not “earned,” and they are assumed to meet a need that serves the public good.


"The transition of social welfare provision from the public sector to the private has led the government to develop and utilize a complicated system that consists of contracting inter-governmental funding through grants and loans, other funding regulations, and a series of mandated bureaucratic administrative methods. Today, most domestic programs and agencies to which Congress allocates specific budgets, are managed through an indirect relationship between the federal government, for-profits, and nonprofits."




STATS>> In 2005, there were over one million nonprofits in the United States,
and as of 2010 nonprofits are the seventh largest economy in the world
STATS->>Today there are over 75,000 foundations in the United States, who provided an estimated total of over 45.6 billion dollars in 2008 alone



Two main Critiques in Article
  • Mission Drift: The concept of mission drift questions whether the organization maintains its original values and goals, exposing it to a potential compromise of its contribution to the community it serves.

  • The Imposition of the NPIC on the Pursuit of Social Justice








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