Lessons Never Learned: Nonprofits and the State http://news.infoshop.org/article.php?story=20100702172336146

Nonprofit efforts to harness and channel popular anger down “constructive” pathways...are deceptively deployed to prop up the idea that working with the state is the only truly “constructive” way of approaching social change. This is the lure of the nonprofit: they promise access to the levers of power if we behave correctly, and it is only by convincing us to behave that they prove to the state and their corporate masters that they can be trusted with that power.