ABSTRACT
Non-profit organizations provide a range of services, from uncovering the violence of the state, to supplying basic subsistence during catastrophic events, to women’s crisis centers and domestic violence shelters, to sexual and reproductive health programs to name just a few. The discourse is “intended to sustain the pre-existing modes of hegemonic dominance”. This discourse is also consumed, regurgitated and sold by corporations to gain profit at the expense of tragedy, pain, violence and harm. The commodification of philanthropy then becomes another tool for the reification and normalization of the ideology or hegemonic discourse within an exploitative neoliberalism system. Neoliberalism and non-profits are interminably linked. The role of non-governmental organizations and their efforts to address social ills that are a result of neoliberalism, power and inequality is not just at the individual or community levels. “Non-profits that see themselves as opposing neoliberal economic policies are nonetheless enabling its continuation in the form of ‘progressive neoliberalism’”.
