What I Learned From a Multi-Racial, Cross-Class Fundraising Project
If we want to start taking wealth redistribution seriously, talking to each other about wealth and putting our assumptions on the table is a necessary step.
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Meet Ekundayo Igeleke, RG’s Chapter Organizing Director!
I come from a radical Black tradition of organizing similar to SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) and the Pan African Movement. Since I was 16, I knew I wanted to be a changemaker like Malcolm X, Ella Baker, and Kwame Ture.
Some Words of Wisdom from Our Outgoing Development Director
As a non-wealthy staff member, RG is unique to me because I don’t know any entity where highly privileged folks gather to attempt to change some of the most challenging social issues facing our country. No matter how messy it has been, this work is a necessity.
As The South Transforms, So Do We All
I was born and raised in North Carolina, and Southern values of community, hospitality, and mutual aid run deep for me… but dismissal of the South is replicated in too many philanthropic spaces.
How I’ve Benefited from Tax Evasion & Wealth Hoarding at 26
The Senate tax bill makes me mad with waves of heat in my body. I’m calling on people like me, young folks with wealth, to move more to the grassroots.
Reflections on Making Money Make Change 2017
Spaces like this aren’t supposed to exist under capitalism. Making Money Make Change is precious and powerful.
Why Young People with Class Privilege Won’t Stand for the #TrumpTaxScam
If you, like me, are 18-35 and have access to wealth, you *will* benefit financially from the #TrumpTaxScam. How are you stepping up for economic justice right now?
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“As Wealthy People, We Damn Well Better Be Funding Resource Generation Ourselves!”
In RG, I found community to talk through complicated feelings about inheriting wealth, particularly guilt, shame, & secrecy. Now I’m redistributing my wealth.
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As a Young Wealthy Person of Color, This is What Resource Generation Membership Means to Me
Instead of choosing to embrace my class or race as separate identities, RG helped me to see why understanding this intersection makes the social justice movement stronger.
How Supporting RG Increases Funding to Social Justice
As progressive young people with wealth, it’s our responsibility to organize wealthy folks to take action to end economic inequality and move money to fund economic and racial justice.