The state uses nonprofits to redirect activist energies into career-based modes of organizing instead of mass-based modes of organizing capable of actually transforming society.
Educational videos by Another Slice on the nonprofit-industrial complex here. Watch them all or you're a liberal.
This is why Baltimore's protests were extremely tame this year. In the wake of the unrest in 2015, there was an upsurge in liberal nonprofits that hire black paid "activists" that go to protests with megaphones and loudspeakers to tell everyone to stay peaceful and obey the cops and that we can change everything if we just vote. They also have vigilante groups that would go around and apprehend anyone throwing stuff or whatever and hand them over to the cops in the name of "keeping our city safe " or whatever. They've basically created an environment where unrest is nearly impossible.