Post written by RG staff and board members. Special thank you to board member Nakisha Lewis for kicking this into action. We also released a press release titled “Young People with Wealth Stand in Solidarity with Ferguson, Mo.” inspired by this post. At Resource Generation, we are deeply saddened and outraged over the death of…
Iris Brilliant is the new Family Philanthropy and Impact Investing Organizer at Resource Generation. She grew up in the Marin County, CA and currently lives in a seven-person collective in Oakland, CA. Her first praxis group at RG was so transformative that it continues to meet, even after two years. She then joined the Bay…
When I arrived at Stanford two years ago, I had a pretty naive view of how the world worked. My parents worked hard so that my sister and I could go to good schools and participate in lots of extracurricular activities, and then I worked hard so I could go to a school like Stanford….
RG staff is growing! We are so excited to feature two of our new staff and check back next month when we will feature more! Emil Paddison, National Organizer I’m Emil Paddison, RG’s new National Organizer. I’ll be working to support chapters in Seattle, the Bay Area, Stanford, Denver/Boulder, Chicago, and emerging chapter in Portland….
“Reducing American poverty and ending white supremacy are not the same.” Ta-Nehisi Coates’s recent article in The Atlantic not only draws attention to the national debate on reparations for slavery, but invokes the centrality of white supremacy as the backbone of wealth inequality in the US. As Caribbean nations prepare to sue European nations for…
By Alok Vaid-Menon of @DarkMatterRage This past month I had the privilege to help fundraise for some movement organizations that I love (including Audre Lorde Project, Queer Detainee Empowerment Project, Streetwise and Safe, Sylvia Rivera Law Project, and FIERCE!) as part of GIVE OUT DAY an annual day of supporting LGBTQ organizations. All of these…
July 2nd, 2014- today marks fifty years since the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was enacted. In honor of this history, I’d like to tip my hat towards those foundations who funded the civil rights movement that helped make this legislation possible, as part of RG’s Rich Role Models series and RG’s larger vision of…
On May 17, members of Philadelphia’s RG Chapter turned out to the 60th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education rally to demand more funding for public schools, charter school accountability, shutting down the school to prison pipeline and returning schools to local control. Heather, a member of of this chapter who was at the rally,…
Reposted from The Huffington Post The American middle class is shrinking. The financial divide between the ultra-moneyed and the rest of society is widening. As that gap grows, it becomes harder and harder for people on each side of that divide to break through to connect with people on the other side. It becomes easier to demonize people from…
By Tracey Webb, Founder, The Black Benefactors and BlackGivesBack.com “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” – African proverbWhen I first learned about giving circles in 2002, I had no idea that at the time it was a growing philanthropic movement across the country. My introduction…
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