Can truly radical social movements bring about change when they work within a nonprofit structure modeled on a corporate capitalist model? Brandi Rose, a graduate student in the Arts in Youth and Community Development program at Columbia College Chicago, examines the ways in which the structures that legitimize and facilitate the work of social change organizations may reduce their effectiveness by requiring them to work within, rather than outside of, the status quo.

Read her insightful article: http://www.communityarts.net/readingroom/archivefiles/2009/09/creating_a_mons.php.

What do you think?