by Resource Generation | Feb 18, 2011 | Class Privilege, Donor Organizing, Featured, Giving, Social Change
Last summer I sat with Mike G eating burgers and talking about RG while watching the World Cup. It was hot, we were in Detroit, and folks on the streets were in full effect. I left the conversation with the idea that all we needed was to organize the wealth of RG...
by Resource Generation | Feb 16, 2011 | Donor Organizing, Featured, History of RG, Movement History, Social Change, Wealth Redistribution in Action
This post is a response to Pam Pompey’s blog post of October 12, 2010, entitled “Donors of Color Not Needed for the Movement?” on the Grassroots Institute for Fundraising Training blog. From the moment I read Pam Pompey’s blog post about an...
by Resource Generation | Feb 2, 2011 | Money Stories
During the opening plenary at the 2011 Council on Foundations Family Philanthropy Conference, Agnes Gund said (and I’m paraphrasing), “It might not be proper to say, but most of my giving has been motivated by guilt.” Her comment was honest, it was real, and it...