by Resource Generation | Oct 14, 2019 | Giving, Movement Moments, RG News, Stories
RG has been reflecting as an organization on ways to pay respect to the Indigenous people on this very important day and on all days. What are ways to create policies that begin to respect the Native communities who continue to steward land and lead the movements that...
by Resource Generation | Jul 11, 2018 | Blog, Giving, Money Stories, Stories, Wealth Redistribution in Action
At my second wedding ceremony, the octogenarian vicar said to the guests, “Let’s be honest, this couple’s initial wedding was quite lacking.” Pretty bold, right? But he was right. My first wedding was for legal purposes only — my spouse is a citizen of the...
by Resource Generation | May 31, 2018 | Blog, Giving, Personal Transformation, Stories, Wealth Redistribution in Action
In one year of Resource Generation membership, I have increased my giving from around $100 to $10,000 a year, which is 5% of my net wealth, and started organizing my family and friends to give. Even before I learned that my inheritance was a direct result of economic...
by Resource Generation | Jul 25, 2017 | Blog, Giving, Money Stories, Personal Transformation, Stories, Wealth Redistribution in Action
What guidance would you give to a room full of fundraisers about how to ask you for money? That was the question I tried to answer on a “#RealTalk with Major Donors” panel at the recent Allied Media Conference in Detroit. AMC is a conference led by people of...
by Resource Generation | Dec 20, 2016 | Giving, Movement Moments, Stories, Wealth Redistribution in Action
By Jessie Spector, outgoing Executive Director of Resource GenerationWill you join me and thousands of others to give big and bold to social justice now and for the next 4 years?All around the country and the world, people are feeling a sense of fear and scarcity....
by Resource Generation | Sep 23, 2016 | Giving, Giving Circles, Wealth Redistribution in Action
by Ben Goldstein Photo courtesy Bread and Roses Giving Project What does it mean to be accountable to a cross-class, cross-generational and multi-racial group raising money for grassroots organizing as a young white man with access to wealth? This is the question I...
