by Resource Generation | Aug 13, 2013 | Donor Organizing, Featured, History of RG, Resources, RG News
My first involvement with RG as a constituent with class privilege was June 2004 when I participated in my first RG workshop “Social Change Financial Planning.” Since then, I not only participated in RG programming as a constituent (e.g. MMMC, Donor Organizing...
by Resource Generation | Mar 19, 2013 | Featured, Interns and Fellows, Money Stories
I, anna winham, an undergraduate student at Dartmouth and current RG Bay Area intern, recently wrote this piece in The Dartmouth Radical, identifying my struggles to reconcile my politics with my background, my identity with my identity. I worry about how to stay out...
by Resource Generation | Mar 19, 2013 | Featured, Money Stories
Re-blogged, due to our partnership with Bolder Giving: Elspeth Gilmore, current executive director of RG, writes in Bolder Giving about coming to terms with class privilege and inheritance. At age 33, I’m at last coming into my own about my wealth. I’ve made...
by Resource Generation | Sep 11, 2012 | Featured, Money Stories
This is an edited version of a sermon I gave this spring at the Mid-Columbia Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, a congregation I served as minister this last year. UUs are known for being great about sexuality education, but money can be much harder to talk frankly...
by Resource Generation | Jun 3, 2012 | Featured, Giving, Money Stories
I was recently asked to speak to a captive audience on the subject of why I’m a “progressive funder.” I was more than happy to oblige, with one minor change: I preferred to answer the question of why I’m a radical activist who happens to have...
by Resource Generation | Mar 6, 2012 | Featured, Money Stories, Movement Moments
When I saw the tumblr site “We are the 1%. We stand with the 99%,” I thought about $140,050 sitting in a bank account in my name at the Permaculture Credit Union, money I’d received in distribution payments from my 5% share in an apartment complex. I questioned...