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Funding foundations often serve as the velvet glove of state repression against social justice movements. Through thinly disguised programmes and schemes, they utilise activists’ need for money to channel their energy into projects that pose no serious threat to the status quo.
Where were the foundations? The philanthropies and the economic crisis
Corporate Social Responsibility as a political resource
The Russell Sage Foundation and the manufacture of reform
The Ford Foundation and the co-option of dissent
Military contractor philanthropy: Why some stay silent
Why they hate our kind hearts, too: The NED, NGOs and the imperial uses of philanthropy
Refining dissent: The Arts Council and radical arts
Quotes on corporate philanthropy
Robert Arnove (1980) Philanthropy and Cultural Imperialism
Incite! Women of Colour Against Violence (ed.) The Revolution Will Not be Funded, 2007
"[Foundations] serve as 'cooling-out' agencies, delaying and preventing more radical, structural change." - Robert Arnove, Philanthropy and Cultural Imperialism, 1980
