Now is the time to get involved with and fund poor and working-class led organizations doing year-round social justice work and focus on building power with communities who hold our elected officials accountable. Strong poor and working-class led organizations and communities are critical not just to beat back the worst threats but to challenge the…
A note from RG’s board co-chairs: We are writing to inform you that, following an exceptional tenure, Iimay Ho will be leaving the role of Executive Director of Resource Generation in summer of 2021. We are grateful for Iimay’s thoughtfulness in giving the organization plenty of time to plan and implement the hiring process for…
Last month, we received a call to action from four Black-led southern organizations that have anchored powerful freedom work for decades: The Highlander Center, Southerners on New Ground, Project South, and Alternate Roots. They asked foundations, donor networks, and funders across the country to move $10 million to a new Southern Power Fund by August…
As people with class privilege, who were born into, adopted into, hired into, or partnered into class privilege, we are in the uncomfortable position of knowing that our access to wealth is part of what this racist, police violence is trying to protect. Resource Generation condemns the anti-Black violence embedded throughout police forces and white supremacy…
As young people with access to wealth, we want to amplify what Black people and communities of color have long said: police officers as a part of the state exist to protect whiteness and wealth at the expense of everyone else, especially Black people. We are updating resources to support the Movement or Black lives…
Where We’ve Been From Iimay Ho, Resource Generation Executive Director Resource Generation was founded as a peer to peer donor organizing network back in 1998. From its very beginnings, co-founders Tracy Hewatt and Lynne Gerber were looking for peers to connect with – other young people with access to wealth and class privilege who wanted…
I’ve been making a series of exhausting decisions that I’m calling the “corona calculus.” Can I go get groceries if it means being less than 6 ft away from the cashier? Can I support my friend who is physically healthy but struggling with depression by seeing them in person but does that mean I can’t…
Introducing RG’s inaugural 2019-2020 RG Student Organizing Fellows! Student Organizing Fellows will be supporting RG student leaders on college campuses across the country to build strong relationships across class, bring more wealthy and class-privileged students into movements for racial and economic justice, and learn and develop skills along the way. I’m grateful to Harshita, Rose,…
As a community of young people with access to wealth and class privilege it is essential that we (staff and members) take the time to learn about the Black and Native lead organizing locally and nationally and to support in whatever ways we’re able.
We were proud to have sent a delegation of 8 RG members and 5 staff to Center for Popular Democracy’s People’s Convention last month! This was a big step in developing our national campaign partnership with CPD and in being a visible, organized group of young people with wealth in a space centering poor and…
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