This post is a part of the blog series and RG campaign, “It Starts Today: Moving $1 Million to Black-Led, Black Liberation Organizing.” Click here for more info on the campaign. What can we as Resource Generation members do to show up for Selma, Alabama and the U.S. South, 50 years after the height of…
Last year at the 2014 Transformative Leadership Institute, we tried a small experiment that I borrowed from my last job at KFTC. It was called “Each One Reach One” and it was our first official trial of an organized member recruiting members program here at RG. TLI participants greeted the idea with a lot of…
I’m writing to share with you about a movement-building delegation in the deep South. As someone who is helping to organize this delegation, I want to invite RG members to join us in Alabama the first week of March. I’m a pretty new Resource Generation member, living in Birmingham, Alabama. I am helping the Alabama…
When you bring motivated, passionate Resource Generation chapter leaders together from across New England, the discussion inevitably turns to tackling difficult, important questions: Thai or Lebanese? (Lebanese) Order pizza or go out to the local Japanese restaurant? (Japanese restaurant). Jokes aside, by the end of the first ever Northeast regional RG retreat, in addition to…
Dear RG Community and Friends, We are a group of four RG members and leaders who came together over the course of the last few years because: We are all cis-men, all white, one gay guy and three straight-ish guys, three who inherited wealth and one who earned wealth through his business. We have been…
Some suggested holiday reading: a few articles to help the RG community continue to understand the connections between the banner of “Black lives matter” (including the origins of the hashtag) to other movements for justice, and what it means to be an ally. ~ 5 Tips for Being an Ally (Chescaleigh: video)“All [privilege] means is there…
by Katherine Wolf and Holly Fetter, Members of the New York City RG Chapter’s Giving and Campaign Committees Thank you to Maurice Mitchell for attending our chapter event on Tuesday, December 9th and for sharing all your insight and passion. This blog post has been heavily influenced by your analysis and your call to action. There’s…
Preparation My interest in building the Philly chapter lead me to participate in a webinar on ‘How to give an excellent one on one.’ I thought I had never “been one-on-oned” going into the webinar and even mentioned that in my intro. Kaitlin, RG’s Campaign and Chapter Organizer, gave a great webinar while Kate, another…
Economic justice is climate justice. These are some reflections as I read Naomi Klein’s newest book “This Changes Everything” about extreme capitalism and the climate crisis. If we meet RG’s mission of redistribution of land, wealth and power, we will also necessarily have contributed to stopping the climate crisis. If we stop the climate crisis,…
I love my family. My brothers are incredible people, full of love and music and insight. My aunt gives the most enveloping, I-love-you-to-your-bones type of hugs. And Thanksgiving is one of the only times we all get together at once. Across the generations of separation & the many forces that have spread us across the…
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