I don’t want to end up with more of what philanthropy has done to us, where philanthropy as an industry requires that there are always cash-poor and … - Nikkita Oliver

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I don’t want to end up with more of what philanthropy has done to us, where philanthropy as an industry requires that there are always cash-poor and economically disenfranchised people. The non-profit industrial complex requires that there are always cash-poor and economically disenfranchised people. It is literally built upon people who — if suddenly there were no poor folks — they wouldn’t know what to do with themselves because their entire lives have been built upon this non-profit industrial complex. So, I think that there’s an economic injustice that we’ve allowed to exist for the sake of keeping the non-profit industrial complex going, keeping certain public projects going so we’re not actually invested in ending the actual injustice.

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About Nikkita Oliver

Nikkita R. Oliver (they/them) (born 1986) is an American lawyer, non-profit administrator, educator, poet, and politician.

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Alternative Names: Nikkita "KO" Oliver KO Nikkita Nikkita Rachel Oliver

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