Me (Mike Gast, Co-Director of RG) asking myself a few of the questions I’ve been wanting to answer about my work and vision. Why wait! So why do you do the work that you do? What’s in it for you? I want a better life. I want a life that is full of close, loving…
Have you checked out the Creating Change Through Family Philanthropy retreat report yet?The CCTFP Retreat is for young people who are engaged in their families’ philanthropy and are committed to social change.This year’s retreat took place in Petaluma, CA at the end of April. It was the 5th retreat of its kind. Full of vibrant…
Originally posted at GIFT Exchange. This month I am writing about what cori parrish at North Star Fund calls “the human side of donor programming.” Here I focus on progressive major donor programming, such as donor workshops and conferences. This is something I have experience with, having attended and helped to design programs and retreats at Resource…
At the heart of philanthropy is a great contradiction, one that our generation is struggling to resolve. Many philanthropists accumulated their wealth through disruptive innovations, ruthless business practice, or, as Balzac said, “great wealth with no obvious source is some forgotten crime, forgotten because it was done neatly.” Many of the great industrialists whose names…
Howdy! Farhad Ebrahimi from the Chorus Foundation here. I’d like to tell you a little story, if you’ve got a moment. It’s the story of how we moved our cash holdings from a large financial services company (Fidelity Investments) to a local socially progressive bank (Wainwright Bank & Trust Company, now a part of Eastern…
What is social change philanthropy? What do these broad and ambiguous words really mean? I was once under the assumption that “social change” excluded environmental or economic change. I saw the intrinsic connections, but because I’d grown accustomed to how philanthropy tends to cubbyhole and compartmentalize issues, I assumed that this was also the case….
After spending some time at the CCTFP conference, I was blown away by the young people I met. I got to know many participants and RG staff and was so impressed by their energy and commitment to social justice. I thought to myself: this is a serious group with a real commitment to gaining skills and getting involved in…
In June we are trying something a little different! In an effort to pare down the number of emails you receive from Resource Generation we have turned June’s monthly update into a blog post. It’s full of timely information on RG’s events, events from our partner organizations, and chapter details. In May, the MMMC Organizing…
Two RG’ers discuss grassroots fundraising and RG. Re-posted from Theo’s new column at GIFT Exchange, the Grassroots Institute for Fundraising Training’s blog. Greetings! This is my first official post to the GIFT blog and I am grateful and excited to be writing here. In this post, I interview Monica Raye Simpson about her experience with the GIFT…
For a while now I’ve been wanting to share my story with the Resource Generation (RG) community. So much of my experience in RG has been about telling our stories and using it as the foundation for our organizing. So here goes. This is my first attempt to share my story with you all. I…
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